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List of the most influential people in Law,

#1401

Francisco Rubio Llorente

Francisco Rubio Llorente

#49173

Overall Influence

1930 - 2016 (86 years)

Francisco Rubio Llorente was a Spanish judge and law professor. He was President of the Spanish Council of State between 2004 and 2012, his predecessor and successor was José Manuel Romay Beccaría. He was judge on the Constitutional Court of Spain between 1980 and 1992, of which he spend the last three years as Vice President.

#1402

Gilles de Kerchove

#35061

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Gilles de Kerchove d'Ousselghem is a Belgian senior European Union official. He was director in the general directorate of Justice and Home Affairs in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union from 1995 – 2007, he has since been appointed as EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator, succeeding Gijs de Vries.

#1403

Dermot Turing

#29349

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Sir John Dermot Turing, 12th Baronet is a British solicitor and author. Education Turing was educated at Sherborne School and King's College, Cambridge. He then undertook a DPhil degree in the genetics of the fruit fly as a postgraduate student of New College, Oxford.

#1404

Melanie Davies

#85937

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Melanie Jane Davies, is a British physician and academic, who specialises in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Since 2007, she has been Professor of Diabetes Medicine at the University of Leicester. She is the director of the National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre.

#1405

Antonio Remiro Brotóns

#33639

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Antonio Remiro Brotóns is a Spanish international lawyer and academic. He is an emeritus professor of public international law at the Autonomous University of Madrid and a member of the Institut de Droit International and the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

#1406

Ron McCallum

#50703

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Ronald Clive McCallum AO is an Australian legal academic. He is an expert in labour law, and has served as a professor and dean of law at the University of Sydney. He is the first totally blind person to be appointed to a full professorship in any subject at any university in Australia or New Zealand, as well as the first to become a Dean of Law in these countries. He chaired the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Geneva.

#1407

Vojislav Koštunica

#22237

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Vojislav Koštunica is a Serbian former politician who served as the last president of FR Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003 and as the prime minister of Serbia from 2004 to 2008. Koštunica won the 2000 Yugoslav presidential election as a candidate of a broad alliance Democratic Opposition of Serbia , which led to overthrow of Slobodan Milošević and the withdrawal of international sanctions against Yugoslavia. He strictly opposed cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and his party left the coalition government in protest at the decision to extradite Slobodan Milošević to the ICTY.

#1408

James G. Exum

#32426

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

James Gooden Exum Jr. also known as Jim Exum is an American jurist who served on the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1975 to 1994, and as chief justice from 1986 to 1994. Under his leadership, the court "expanded civil rights, took a new approach to criminal justice, and increased available remedies in tort law." Associate Justice Mark A. Davis has compared the Exum Court to the Warren Court at the federal level.

#1409

Martin Lee

#35178

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Martin Lee Chu-ming is a Hong Kong politician and barrister. He is the founding chairman of the United Democrats of Hong Kong and its successor, the Democratic Party, Hong Kong's flagship pro-democracy party. He was also a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1985 to 1997 and from 1998 to 2008. Nicknamed the "Father of Democracy" in Hong Kong, he is recognised as one of the most prominent advocates for democracy and human rights in Hong Kong and China.

#1410

Lyle Denniston

#49764

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Lyle Denniston is an American journalist, professor, and author who has reported on the Supreme Court of the United States since 1958. He wrote for SCOTUSblog, an online blog featuring news and analysis of the Supreme Court, until June 2016, after previously having written for multiple national newspapers and legal periodicals. His commentary is also featured on the National Public Radio show Here and Now. In addition, he has contributed to numerous books and journals, and is the author of "The Reporter and the Law: Techniques for Covering the Courts." Denniston has taught classes on law, ...

#1411

Mary Ellen O'Connell

#56747

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Mary Ellen O'Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School and a research professor of international dispute resolution at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace in Studies. Since joining the Notre Dame Law School in 2005, she has taught the courses International Law, International Law and the Use of Force, International Dispute Resolution, International Environmental Law, International Art Law, and Contracts. Prior to joining Notre Dame's faculty, she taught at Ohio State University , as the William B. Saxbe Designated Profes...

#1412

Tim Canova

#36586

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Timothy A. Canova is an American politician and law professor specializing in banking and finance. Canova was a candidate for Florida's 23rd congressional district, unsuccessfully challenging Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the 2016 Democratic primary, and again in the 2018 general election, where he ran as an independent candidate. He later supported President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

#1413

Herman Eisen

#41414

Overall Influence

1918 - 2014 (96 years)

Herman Nathaniel Eisen was an American immunologist and cancer researcher. He served on the faculty at New York University School of Medicine in the early 1950s, became the Chief of Dermatology at the Washington University School of Medicine in 1955, and was a founding member of the MIT Center for Cancer Research . Eisen retired and assumed professor emeritus status in 1989, but continued to be active as a researcher; he was working on a manuscript the day he died in 2014.

#1414

David Sturtevant Ruder

#60182

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

David Sturtevant Ruder was the William W. Gurley Memorial Professor of Law Emeritus at Northwestern University School of Law, where he served on the faculty since 1961, and where he served as dean from 1977 to 1985. He served as chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1987 to 1989, and later practiced with the Chicago-based law firm Baker & McKenzie. He served as chairman of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum, an organization providing education to independent directors of mutual funds, from 2002 to 2010 and was the organization's chairman emeritus.

#1415

Kristen A. Stilt

#51056

Overall Influence

Kristen A. Stilt is an Islamic studies scholar who focuses on law and society in both historical and contemporary contexts. She wrote Islamic Law in Action: Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt.

#1416

Amir Attaran

#21991

Overall Influence

Amir Attaran is a Canadian professor in both the Faculty of Law and the School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Early life and education Attaran was born in California to immigrants from Iran. He attended public schools in the Sacramento area.

#1417

Gerhart Holzinger

#52076

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Gerhart Holzinger is an Austrian jurist, educator, and career civil servant. He was appointed to the Austrian Constitutional Court in 1995, serving as its president from 2008 until his retirement in 2017.

#1418

Alan Morrison

#53001

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Alan Butler Morrison is an American attorney and the co-founder of Public Citizen Litigation Group. Early life and education Morrison was born in New York City in 1938. His father was a Jewish migrant from Ukraine who later worked as a lawyer and his mother was a native of Troy, New York whose father was an immigrant from Poland. As a child, Morrison and his family lived in California while his father was serving as an officer in the United States Air Force. He spent the rest of his childhood in Larchmont, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1959 and a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1966.

#1419

Alison Young

#59667

Overall Influence

Alison L. Young is a British legal scholar, specialising in public law and constitutional theory. Since January 2018, she has been Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. She was previously a tutor in law and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and of Hertford College, Oxford , and a lecturer then Professor of Public Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

#1420

Makau Mutua

#52516

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Makau W. Mutua is a Kenyan-American professor at the SUNY Buffalo School of Law and was its dean from 2008 to 2014. He teaches international human rights, international business transactions and international law. He is vice president of the American Society of International Law and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

#1421

Zeng Xianyi

#39111

Overall Influence

1936 - 2011 (75 years)

Zeng Xianyi was a professor of legal history and was the dean of Renmin University of China Law School. Biography Zeng Xianyi received his Bachelor of Laws degree from Renmin University of China Department of Law in 1960. He became the head of the department from 1990 to 1994 and then dean of the law school until 2005. He was then given the title of Honorary Dean of the law school.

#1422

Ann E. Carlson

#69042

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Ann E. Carlson is an American attorney and legal scholar who has served as the acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration since September 2022. Before joining the Biden administration, Carlson was the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law at the UCLA School of Law, where she also served as faculty co-director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment. She is an expert on U.S. environmental law and policy with a particular focus on climate change and environmental federalism. Biden administration withdrew her from nomination in May 2023...

#1423

Patrick E. Hobbs

#55525

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Patrick E. Hobbs is an American attorney, academic administrator, and professor. Early life and education Hobbs was born March 29, 1960, in Orange, New Jersey. He received Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Seton Hall University in 1982, a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1985, and an L.L.M. from New York University School of Law in 1988.

#1424

Dick Gephardt

#18672

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Richard Andrew Gephardt is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was House majority leader from 1989 to 1995 and minority leader from 1995 to 2003. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1988 and 2004. Gephardt was mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee in 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2008.

#1425

Peter Erlinder

#36079

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

C. Peter Erlinder is an American lawyer, originally from Chicago, who lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was Lead Defence Counsel for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and has represented several clients internationally, most notably several Rwandan opposition leaders, including Rwandan Presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire.

#1426

Melody J. Stewart

#66802

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Melody J. Stewart is a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. She formerly served as a Judge on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals. Stewart was elected to the Ohio Supreme Court in 2018, having defeated incumbent Justice Mary DeGenaro.

#1427

Enid Campbell

#57611

Overall Influence

1932 - 2010 (78 years)

Enid Mona Campbell, AC, OBE, FASSA was an Australian legal scholar, and was the first female professor and Dean of a law school in Australasia. She is known for her work on constitutional law and administrative law, as well as her contribution to legal education.

#1428

Peter M. Shane

#40217

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Peter Milo Shane is a law professor and writer. His best-known scholarly work focuses mainly on two subjects. The first is separation of powers law, especially law and the presidency. His work often explores what he calls an institutional conception of the rule of law in a separation of powers regime. See, e.g., Peter M, Shane, When Inter-branch Norms Break Down: Of Arms-for-Hostages, 'Orderly Shutdowns,' Presidential Impeachments, and Judicial 'Coups,' 12 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 503 . Under Shane's antiformalist conception, the rule of law is sustained not only by formal ...

#1429

Rebecca Latham Brown

#78404

Overall Influence

Rebecca Latham Brown is an American law professor who is The Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law specializing in Constitutional law at USC Gould School of Law. Biography Brown was raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and received her B.A. from St. John's College in 1980. She earned her J.D. in 1984, graduating magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was the articles editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Following graduation, she served as a clerk for Judge Spottswood Robinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and during the 1985-1986 Term...

#1430

Giles Henderson

#51685

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Giles Ian Henderson, CBE is a solicitor who was Master of Pembroke College, Oxford. Early life and education Giles Henderson was educated at Michaelhouse, a boarding independent school in Balgowan in Natal in South Africa, followed by the University of the Witwatersrand, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and then Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, where he was a Senior Mackinnon Scholar and graduated as Master of Arts and Bachelor of Civil Law. He received a Fulbright Award and spent a year teaching at the Faculty of Law at University of California, Berkeley ...

#1431

Arie Freiberg

#51793

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Arie Freiberg is an Israeli-born Australian legal academic. He was formerly Dean of Monash Law School from 2004 and retired at the end of 2012. His expertise is in criminal law and criminology and he was the Chair of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council from 2004 to 2022. His research has focussed on sentencing and the administration of criminal justice, but he has over one hundred publications in many areas of law.

#1432

Ira Mark Bloom

#59436

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Ira Mark Bloom is an American law professor, legal scholar, and the Justice David Josiah Brewer Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School. Education and early career Bloom received a BBA from City College of New York in 1966 and a JD magna cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law in 1969. While at Syracuse he was research editor of the Syracuse Law Review.

#1433

Antonia Handler Chayes

Antonia Handler Chayes

#36670

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Antonia "Toni" Handler Chayes is a United States lawyer and educator who served as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force from 1977 to 1979 and as United States Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1979 to 1981.

#1434

William J. Stuntz

#50721

Overall Influence

1958 - 2011 (53 years)

William J. Stuntz was a criminal justice scholar and a professor at Harvard Law School. Biography Stuntz was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up Annapolis, Maryland. He received his Bachelor of Arts at The College of William & Mary and his degree in law at University of Virginia School of Law. Subsequently, he clerked for Associate Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Following this, Stuntz taught at the University of Virginia School of Law for over a decade, before moving to Harvard Law School in 1999.

#1435

Todd Zywicki

#37536

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Todd Joseph Zywicki is an American lawyer, legal scholar and educator. He is a George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, teaching in the areas of bankruptcy and contracts.

#1436

Richard D. McLellan

Richard D. McLellan

#57798

Overall Influence

Richard D. McLellan is a lawyer at McLellan Law Offices PLLC. He has served as Chairman of the Michigan Law Revision Commission since 1986. He argued on the side of the appellee in the United States Supreme Court case Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U.S. 652 .

#1437

Sima Avramović

#60736

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Sima Avramovic is a Serbian university professor, author on the subjects of comparative law, legal history, law and religion, Roman law, rhetoric and Ambassador of Serbia to the Vatican City State.

#1438

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Kimberlé Crenshaw

#20121

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

#1439

Justus Weiner

#55621

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Justus Reid Weiner was a human rights lawyer and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He was the author of numerous publications. Weiner also lectured widely in various countries, and was a visiting assistant professor at Boston University School of Law. He was a member of the Israel and New York Bar Associationss. Previously, he practiced law as an associate in the litigation department of the international law firm White & Case in New York City. Weiner also served as a senior attorney at the Israel Ministry of Justice, specializing in human rights ...

#1440

Richard Beasley

#65442

Overall Influence

Charles Richard William Beasley is a New Zealand academic physician, the founder and Director of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington.

#1441

Naranjan Dhalla

#47375

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Naranjan S. Dhalla, is a Canadian cardiovascular research scientist focusing on cardiovascular pathophysiology and therapy of heart disease. His laboratory employs a variety of experimental models to investigate a wide range of cardiovascular diseases at the subcellular and molecular levels.

#1442

RonNell Andersen Jones

#52190

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (123 years)

RonNell Andersen Jones is the Lee E. Teitelbaum endowed professor of law and Associate Dean of Faculty and Research at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. She is also an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project. Previously, Jones was a law professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Research at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, where she was twice named Professor of the Year. Jones has previously been a reporter employed by the Deseret News and she specializes in the study of the integration of the press, the l...

#1443

Wang Liming

#31681

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Wang Liming is the Vice President of Renmin University of China and one of the foremost scholars of civil law in China. Biography Wang was born in Xiantao, Hubei Province, China. He received his LL.B. degree from Hubei Institute of Finance and Economics in 1981, and LL.M from Renmin University of China Department of Law in 1984.

#1444

Tokiyasu Fujita

#73153

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Tokiyasu Fujita is a Japanese jurist, former judge of the Supreme Court of Japan , Professor Emeritus of Tohoku University, member of the Japan Academy, and member of the Imperial Household Council. His specialty is administrative law . He was actively involved in the public debate surrounding the legal transformation of Japanese National Universities into corporations in 2004.

#1445

Robert J. Cottrol

Robert J. Cottrol

#64760

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Robert J. Cottrol is an American legal scholar and legal historian. Career Cottrol holds a chair in the George Washington University Law School and is also a professor of history and sociology at GWU. He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, and his J.D. from Georgetown Law School. His research concentrates on race relations in U.S. legal history and criminal law contexts. He is the author of five books and dozens of book chapters, law review articles, book reviews, and other published works on slavery, gun control, and others topics. He is also the editor of Gun Control and the Co...

#1446

Malcolm Evans

#65554

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Sir Malcolm David Evans, , FLSW is an English legal scholar. He is currently Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford, England and started in 2023. Biography Until 2023 Evans was Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol. He has worked extensively on human rights issues for numerous international bodies and NGOs.

#1447

Ian Haney López

#16794

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Ian F. Haney López is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He works in the area of racism and racial justice in American law. Life and career Haney López born on July 6, 1964, in Hawaii, where he was raised. His father, Terrence Haney, is from Washington. His mother, Maria López Haney, is from El Salvador. He changed his surname from Haney to Haney López while a graduate student at Princeton University to honor the Latino tradition of using both his parents' names, though also to resist the "honorary whiteness" that is sometimes offe...

#1448

Michael Goldsmith

Michael Goldsmith

#46411

Overall Influence

1951 - 2009 (58 years)

Michael Goldsmith was a law professor at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School. Early life and education Michael Goldsmith was born March 6, 1951, in Tel Aviv, Israel and immigrated to the United States of America with his family in June 1955. He attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, receiving a BS with a concentration in Industrial & Labor Relations and Political Science in 1972. In 1975, he obtained a J.D. degree from Cornell Law School, in the process earning the Order of the Coif.

#1449

Kenneth J. Pienta

Kenneth J. Pienta

#61110

Overall Influence

Kenneth J. Pienta is a medical doctor and the Donald S. Coffey professor of urology and professor of oncology and pharmacology and molecular sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also serves as the director of research at the Brady Urological Institute.

#1450

Michael Zander

#45876

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Michael Zander, KC, FBA, is a British legal scholar. He is Professor Emeritus of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the author of several books known to generations of lawyers and law students alike. Professor Zander was a member of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice . He is currently a member of the Home Office's PACE Strategy Board.

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