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List of the most influential people in Law,

#1151

Thomas Cromwell

Thomas Cromwell

#34731

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Thomas Albert Cromwell is a Canadian jurist and former Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada. After eleven years on the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, Cromwell was nominated to succeed Michel Bastarache and occupy the seat traditionally reserved for Atlantic provinces on the Supreme Court of Canada by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and assumed office on December 22, 2008. Cromwell retired in September 2016, and was succeeded by Malcolm Rowe.

#1152

Vaughan Lowe

#26204

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Alan Vaughan Lowe KC is a barrister and academic specialising in the field of international law. Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1999–2012; Emeritus Professor of International Law and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, since 2012. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Gray's Inn, of which he is a Bencher, in 1993 and appointed Queen's Counsel on 28 March 2008. He practices from Essex Court Chambers, London. He is a member of l'Institut de droit international.

#1153

Bernadette Meyler

#50013

Overall Influence

Bernadette Meyler is the Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where she has taught since 2013. Meyler's scholarship focuses on British and American constitutional law, the history of the common law, and the intersection of law and the humanities.

#1154

Andrew McClurg

#48694

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Andrew Jay McClurg is a professor of law holding the Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence in Law at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, specializing in torts, products liability, privacy law, and firearms policy. Although he has published numerous academic works, he is also known as a legal humorist, having written two legal humor books, as well as a monthly legal humor column in the American Bar Association Journal that ran for more than four years. He is also the creator of Lawhaha.com, a legal humor website.

#1155

Alexei Stanislavovich Avtonomov

Alexei Stanislavovich Avtonomov

#45330

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Alexei Stanislavovich Avtonomov is a Russian legal scholar, member of UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination since 2003. He graduated from MGIMO in 1981 and was awarded Candidate of Sciences degree in 1984. In 1999, he was awarded Doktor nauk degree. Since 2001, Avtonomov is a professor of the State University of Humanitarian Sciences. Since 2004, he is senior research fellow of the Institute of State and Law. Avtonomov is also a professor of the Higher School of Economics.

#1156

Jenny Durkan

#13361

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Jenny Anne Durkan is an American attorney, former federal prosecutor, and politician served as the 56th mayor of Seattle, Washington. She is the daughter of Martin Durkan. Durkan is a member of the Democratic Party. After earning her Juris Doctor from University of Washington School of Law in 1985, Durkan began practicing law as a criminal defense lawyer and civil litigator. In October 2009, President Barack Obama appointed her United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington. She held that position until September 2014.

#1157

Peter Schlechtriem

#36874

Overall Influence

1933 - 2007 (74 years)

Peter Schlechtriem was a German jurisprudential scholar. Biography Peter H. Schlechtriem was born March 2, 1933, in Jena and studied law at the University of Hamburg and the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. After having passed both his State Examinations in law, he in 1964 received the title of Doctor iuris from the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg for his dissertation on foreign inheritance law. In 1965 the University of Chicago Law School awarded him a Master of Comparative Law. Peter Schlechtriem subsequently returned to Freiburg where in 1970 he completed his Habilitation with...

#1158

Eugene R. Fidell

#21389

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Eugene Roy Fidell is an American lawyer specializing in military law. He is currently the Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. Education Military service Family Fidell has been married to Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Linda Greenhouse since January 1, 1981. Together they have one daughter, filmmaker Hannah Margalit Fidell .

#1159

Jay H. Hoofnagle

#76552

Overall Influence

#1160

Micah Schwartzman

#57683

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Micah Jacob Schwartzman is the Joseph W. Dorn Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. In 1997, Schwartzman was given a Rhodes Scholarship. External links Faculty page

#1161

Beth Nolan

#35036

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Beth Nolan was vice president and general counsel of the George Washington University. She was also Bill Clinton's final White House Counsel, as well as the first woman to hold the office. Prior to serving as White House Counsel, Nolan worked in other White House and Department of Justice positions, taught law, and worked in private practice.

#1162

Maciej Kaliński

#71037

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Maciej Jacek Kaliński is a Polish lawyer and associate professor at the University of Warsaw, specializing in civil law. Early life Kaliński graduated from the T. Reytan Secondary School in Warsaw.

#1163

Louise Gullifer

#44070

Overall Influence

Louise Joan Gullifer is a British legal academic and barrister who is Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge. She is the first woman to hold this professorship and was formerly Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Oxford. She is known for her contributions to English law both as an academic, and for representing the United Kingdom as delegate to United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and UNIDROIT. She is a Bencher of Gray's Inn.

#1164

Joe Brown

#41620

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Joseph Blakeney Brown Jr. , known professionally as Judge Joe Brown, is an American former lawyer and television personality. He is a former Shelby County, Tennessee Criminal Court judge and a former arbiter of the arbitration-based reality court show Judge Joe Brown.

#1165

Matthias Storme

#34877

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Matthias Edward Storme is a Belgian lawyer, academic and conservative philosopher. Family life Storme was born and raised in a Catholic family in the Belgian city of Ghent. His father Marcel Storme used to be a university law professor, lecturing on the topic of Civil Procedure, and a member of the Belgian Senate for the Flemish Christian Democrats. His grandfather August De Schryver held several ministerships in many Belgian governments, including the Belgian Exile Government in London during World War II. He held his seat in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives until the late 1965. His...

#1166

Robert Barnett

#23925

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Robert B. Barnett is an American lawyer who is a partner at the law firm Williams & Connolly. Family, early life, and education Robert Bruce Barnett was born on August 26, 1946, in Waukegan, Illinois, the son of Betty and Bernard Barnett. His father ran the Waukegan office of the Social Security Administration and had a popular call-in radio show that offered advice on federal retirement benefits. In 1964, he graduated from Waukegan High School where he served as senior class president. In 1968, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison , and in 1971 he graduated with a J.D.

#1167

Richard Kling

#46123

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Richard Kling is a Clinical Professor of Law at the Chicago–Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois, where he has been teaching since 1981. He teaches evidence, forensic science, and professional responsibility. He has personally tried over 500 jury trials, including 28 capital cases, and currently has a full-time Clinical Criminal practice through the Law Offices of the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Richard Kling is well respected in the Chicago legal community and is regularly featured in Chicago local news to discuss legal news topics ranging from the Rod Blagojevich corruption charges to ...

#1168

Hiroshi Shiono

#39138

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Hiroshi Shiono is a Japanese legal scholar specializing in administrative law. He holds the title of Order of Culture and is an honorary professor at the University of Tokyo, a member of the Japan Academy and its president since 2016, and a recipient of the Person of Cultural Merit.

#1169

Emily Sherwin

#45738

Overall Influence

Emily L. Sherwin is the Frank B. Ingersoll Professor of Law at the Cornell Law School. At Cornell, her specialties include "jurisprudence, property, and remedies". Sherwin did her undergraduate studies at Lake Forest College in Illinois, graduating in 1977. She earned her J.D. from the Boston University School of Law in 1981. She also has a master's degree in philosophy, earned in 2015 from the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University.

#1170

Francis M. Ssekandi

#53966

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Francis M. Ssekandi , is a lecturer in law at the Columbia Law School and, since 1 July 2007, a judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. He has published on law and development, human rights and good governance. Ssekandi is a former judge in the High Court/Justice of Appeal and a member of the Uganda Supreme Court .

#1171

Allison Christians

#47669

Overall Influence

Allison Christians is a tax law scholar and the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Tax Law at the McGill University Faculty of Law/Faculté de Droit in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her research and teaching focus on Canadian and U.S. domestic and international tax law and policy issues, with an emphasis on the relationship between taxation and economic development and on the role of government and non-government institutions and actors in the creation of tax policy norms.

#1172

Janine P. Geske

#30894

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Janine P. Geske is an American jurist and law professor who served as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1993 to 1998 and as interim Milwaukee County Executive in 2002. Life and career Born in Port Washington, Wisconsin, Geske was raised in the nearby community of Cedarburg. She graduated from Cedarburg High School in 1967 and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Beloit College in 1971 and 1972, respectively. Geske earned her J.D. degree from the Marquette University Law School in 1975.

#1173

Catherine Barnard

#46238

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Catherine Sarah Barnard, , FLSW is a British academic, who specialises in European Union, employment, and competition law. She has been Professor of European Union and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge since 2008. She has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1996, and is the college's Senior Tutor.

#1175

Viggo Hagstrøm

#41741

Overall Influence

1954 - 2013 (59 years)

Viggo Hagstrøm was a Norwegian legal scholar, and professor of law at the Department of Private Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law. He obtained the cand.jur. degree in 1979, and was appointed lecturer in law at the University of Oslo in 1980. In 1985, he obtained the dr.juris degree and was appointed as associate professor. He became professor of law, particularly property law, in 1988. He was head of department for the Department of Private Law 1992–2000. He was a member of the Study Group on a European Civil Code. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and held an honorary doctorate at the University of Copenhagen.

#1176

David Auburn

#11890

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

David Auburn is an American playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. He is best known for his 2000 play Proof, which won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He also wrote the screenplays for the 2005 film version of Proof, The Lake House , The Girl in the Park , and Georgetown .

#1177

E. Michael McCann

#26050

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Edward Michael McCann is an American attorney and politician who served as district attorney of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin from 1969 to 2007. A Democrat, McCann gained recognition for the length of his tenure and his successful record as a trial attorney.

#1178

Tim Wu

#27005

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

#1179

Terry Calvani

#45372

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Terry Calvani is a lawyer, former government official and university professor. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, he served one term as Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. He was also a Member of the governing board of the Competition Authority of Ireland , where he held the criminal investigations portfolio. He has taught antitrust law at Vanderbilt University School of Law, Duke University School of Law, the Harvard Law School, Trinity College Dublin, Cornell Law School, Columbia Law School and University of California, Hastings College of Law. He retired from the practice of antitrust law with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in April 2019.

#1180

J. Michelle Childs

J. Michelle Childs

#41660

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Julianna Michelle Childs , known professionally as J. Michelle Childs, is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina from 2010 to 2022, as well as previously a state court judge of the South Carolina Circuit Court from 2006 to 2010.

#1181

Nathaniel R. Jones

Nathaniel R. Jones

#31253

Overall Influence

1926 - 2020 (94 years)

Nathaniel Raphael Jones was an American attorney, judge, and law professor. As general counsel of the NAACP, Jones fought to end school segregation, including in the northern United States. From 1979 until 1995, he served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit before assuming senior status, and in 2002 retired to resume a private legal practice.

#1182

Jean-Denis Bredin

Jean-Denis Bredin

#20972

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Jean-Denis Bredin was a French attorney and founding partner of the firm Bredin Prat. He was widely admired as an author-commentator, both for his novels and for his non-fiction works, with a particular focus on recent and contemporary history. On 15 June 1989, he was elected to membership of the Académie Française, becoming the twentieth occupant of seat 3, which had been vacated through the death of Marguerite Yourcenar. His daughter, Frédérique Bredin, served between 2013 and 2019 as President of the French National Center of Cinematography and the moving image.

#1183

Jeremy Horder

#52495

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Jeremy Christian Nicholas Horder is Professor of Criminal Law and former Head of Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2005 - 2010 he served as Law Commissioner for England and Wales. Horder graduated from the University of Hull in 1984 with an LLB. He then studied Civil Law at the University of Oxford, completing his DPhil while a Fellow of Jesus College. His thesis concerned homicide law from the 16th to the 20th Centuries. Horder was the Chairman of Oxford's Faculty of Law between 1998 and 2000. He is an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple and former Edmund Davies Professor of Criminal Law at King's College London.

#1184

Jerome A. Barron

#55911

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Jerome A. Barron is the Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School and a former dean of the law school. He is primarily known for his influence about the doctrine of free speech in the United States.

#1185

Bernard Wolfman

#35974

Overall Influence

1924 - 2011 (87 years)

Bernard Wolfman was the Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School as well as its Gemmill Professor of Tax Law and Tax Policy, and the Fessenden Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Biography Wolfman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Nathan and Elizabeth Wolfman, and was Jewish. In the Second World War, in December 1944 he fought in Germany. He earned an A.B. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1946, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1948.

#1186

Shyamala Gopalan

Shyamala Gopalan

#9126

Overall Influence

1938 - 2009 (71 years)

Shyamala Gopalan was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. She is the mother of Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris and Maya Harris, a lawyer and political commentator.

#1187

Spiros Simitis

#36727

Overall Influence

1934 - 2023 (89 years)

Spiros Simitis was a Greek-German jurist and a pioneer in the field of data protection. In recognition of his role, admirers sometimes describe him as "the man who invented data protection". He was appointed Chief Data Protection Commissioner for the state of Hessen in 1975, and remained in post till 1991. When the West German government prepared for the 1978 launch of a national equivalent, he was seen by commentators as the obvious choice for the post of Federal Commissioner for Data Protection. He was indeed offered the job, but he rejected it in protest against the government decision, taken shortly before launch, to cut the resources allocated to the new department.

#1188

Alison Harvison Young

#68191

Overall Influence

Alison Harvison Young is a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, appointed to that Court on August 31, 2018. Prior to her appointment as a judge, Harvison Young was a legal academic in family law.

#1189

Stephen Waddams

#59371

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Stephen Michael Waddams was an English-born Canadian legal scholar. He taught at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Early life and education Waddams was born in Woking, England, and moved to Canada as a teenager in 1959. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. As a law student, he was editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review in 1968. Waddams earned a Master of Arts and PhD from the University of Cambridge, followed by a Master of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Science...

#1190

Abbe Lowell

#28911

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Abbe David Lowell is an American defense attorney who has represented several high-profile defendants. Some of the well known political figures Lowell has represented include Bob Menendez, John Edwards, Jared Kushner, Hunter Biden, Jim Wright, Dan Rostenkowski, Charles Keating, Joseph McDade, Joe Bruno, Gary Condit, and Jim Gibbons.

#1191

David Feldman

#57661

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

David John Feldman is a British legal academic, author and former judge. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge, and served as an international judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Dayton Agreement from 2002 to 2010. He is known for having shaped the development of civil liberties and human rights law in the United Kingdom.

#1192

Arul Chinnaiyan

Arul Chinnaiyan

#54939

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Arul M. Chinnaiyan is a Hicks Endowed Professor of Pathology and professor of pathology and urology at the University of Michigan Medical School. He is also a Howard Hughes medical Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

#1193

Mien-Chie Hung

#21038

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Mien-Chie Hung is a Taiwanese-born American molecular biologist and cancer researcher. He is a Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

#1194

Olivier De Schutter

Olivier De Schutter

#16638

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Olivier De Schutter is a Belgian legal scholar specialising in economic and social rights. He served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food from 2008 to 2014. He is a Professor of international human rights law, European Union law and legal theory at the University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, as well as at the College of Europe and at Sciences Po in Paris. He was a regular visiting professor at Columbia University between 2008 and 2012 and has regularly contributed to the American University Washington College of Law's Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

#1195

Jeffrey Goldsworthy

#65699

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Jeffrey Denys Goldsworthy is an Australian academic and legal philosopher. He is known for his work in philosophy of law, as well as constitutional theory and interpretation. He held a Personal Chair at Monash University Faculty of Law from 2000 to 2016. He was the President of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy from 2007 to 2014. He is known for work on parliamentary sovereignty, especially for his book The Sovereignty of Parliament: History and Philosophy. In constitutional theory, he is a proponent of originalism.

#1196

Lucien Bouchard

#15805

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Lucien Bouchard is a French-Canadian lawyer, diplomat and retired politician. A minister for two years in the Mulroney cabinet, Bouchard then founded and led the Bloc Québécois and became Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 1996. He became a central figure for the "Yes" side in the 1995 Quebec referendum, alongside Jacques Parizeau, whom he succeeded to serve as the 27th premier of Quebec from January 29, 1996, to March 8, 2001.

#1197

Kent Syverud

#33502

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Kent D. Syverud is the 12th Chancellor and President of Syracuse University. He began his term of office on January 13, 2014. He was previously the dean at Washington University School of Law and Vanderbilt University Law School.

#1198

Jacek Izydorczyk

#66048

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Jacek Jerzy Izydorczyk is a Polish professor of law at the University of Łódź and attorney at law. Poland ambassador to Japan . Life Jacek Izydorczyk graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Lódź in 1996. Next year he became a lecturer there. He defended his Ph.D. thesis on criminal procedure in 2000. In 2005 he passed judge's national exam. He studied at Kyushu University . In 2011 he attained post-doctoral degree in law and the same year he became a Professor of Law, and in 2013 Head of Department of Special Criminal Proceedings.

#1199

Jörg Philipp Terhechte

#44326

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Jörg Philipp Terhechte is a German legal scholar, a university professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Professor at the University of Glasgow and vice president of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

#1200

Christopher Alexander

Christopher Alexander

#380

Overall Influence

1936 - 2022 (86 years)

Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, and sociology. Alexander designed and personally built over 100 buildings, both as an architect and a general contractor.

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