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#1651

Peter Marcuse

#15946

Overall Influence

1928 - 2022 (94 years)

Peter Marcuse was a German-born American lawyer and professor of urban planning. Early life and education Marcuse was the older son of Sophie Wertheim and philosopher and critical theorist Herbert Marcuse. He was born in Berlin, left Germany shortly after Hitler came to power, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1934.

#1652

Philip Selznick

#96451

Overall Influence

#1653

Roberta Rosenthal Kwall

#44939

Overall Influence

Roberta Rosenthal Kwall is the Raymond P. Niro Professor at DePaul University College of Law. In 2006, Chicago Magazine highlighted Kwall as one of the Ten Best Law Professors in Illinois. Career Roberta Rosenthal Kwall is an American law professor, author, and lecturer. She teaches at DePaul University College of Law and received her A.B. in Religious Studies from Brown University and her JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She also has a Master's degree in Jewish Studies. Kwall has written extensively on author's rights, copyright law, creativity theory, Jewish law and Jewish...

#1654

Hannes Tretter

#42793

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Hannes Tretter is an Austrian lawyer and human rights expert. He is Professor of Human Rights at the University of Vienna and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte, which he cofounded with Felix Ermacora and Manfred Nowak in 1992. He is also an expert with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, a board member of the Austrian League for Human Rights and chairs the Steering Committee of the Austrian EUMC Focal Point.

#1655

Prabha Kotiswaran

#46497

Overall Influence

Prabha Kotiswaran is a professor of law and social justice working at King's College London in the United Kingdom. Career Professor Prabha obtained her undergraduate degree from the National Law School of India University, and a doctorate degree from Harvard University, USA. She later practised law at Debevoise and Plimpton, two eminent law firms in New York, USA. She was a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She joined KCL in 2012.

#1656

W. Wesley Pue

#55287

Overall Influence

1954 - 2019 (65 years)

William Wesley Pue was a Canadian lawyer, academic, and the Nemetz Professor of Legal History at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. He was also a past President of the Canadian Law and Society Association.

#1657

John Morgan

#35199

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

John Bryan Morgan is an American attorney. He is best known as founder of personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan. Biography Morgan was born on March 31, 1956, in Lexington, Kentucky, the eldest of five children, to Ramon Morgan and Patricia Morgan. When Morgan was fourteen years old, his family moved to Winter Park, Florida. Morgan began working in various jobs at an early age, as his family struggled financially. In 1974, he entered the University of Florida, where he earned a bachelor's degree in arts in 1978. He took an 18-month hiatus selling ads to pay for his studies at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

#1658

Marilou McPhedran

#29094

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Marilou McPhedran is a Canadian lawyer, human rights advocate and politician. Since October 2016, McPhedran is a member of the Senate of Canada. She was the Principal of the University of Winnipeg Global College in Manitoba, Canada between 2008 and 2012. In 1985, McPhedran became the youngest lawyer to be named a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition of her co-leadership of the Ad Hoc Committee of Canadian Women on the Constitution. The Ad Hoc Committee was a grass roots movement for strengthening equality rights during the drafting of the Constitution of Canada. In 2001, McPhedran...

#1659

Kirsti Strøm Bull

#87315

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Kirsti Strøm Bull is a Norwegian professor of law. She took the cand.jur. degree in 1969 and the dr.juris degree in 1993. Having worked at the University of Oslo since 1971, she was promoted to associate professor in 1987 and professor in 1997. Her specialty is family law and Sami-related law. She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

#1660

Jody Kraus

#66111

Overall Influence

Jody S. Ponsa-Kraus is a Patricia D. and R. Paul Yetter Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Biography Kraus holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in Philosophy, an M.A. from the University of Arizona, and a B.A. from The Ohio State University. He received numerous awards at the University of Arizona and served as a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He entered Yale Law as a member of the Yale Law Journal after having been published in the Journal before enrolling.

#1661

Hiram Chodosh

#22213

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Hiram E. Chodosh is the 5th and current president of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. Early life and education Hiram Chodosh was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1962. Raised in nearby Hillside, he graduated from Hillside High School.

#1662

Abby Rubenfeld

#55811

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Abby Rubenfeld is an American civil rights attorney who practices in Nashville, Tennessee. Rubenfeld received an A.B. with honors from Princeton University, where she was class president, and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 1979, where she helped create the Boston University Law Association. She was admitted to practice law in 1979.

#1663

Sylvia Kierkegaard

#41661

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Sylvia Mercado Kierkegaard was a Philippine jurist who specialized in computer law. Her research covered a wide range of topics, including comparative contract law, alternative dispute resolution, intellectual property rights, European Union law, privacy, electronic commerce, cybersecurity, computer law, and data protection. She wrote and edited books and journal articles.

#1664

Victor Ling

#34202

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Victor Ling, is a Canadian researcher in the field of medicine. Ling's research focuses on drug resistance in cancer. He is best known for his discovery of P-glycoprotein, one of the proteins responsible for multidrug resistance.

#1665

Guy-Uriel Charles

#75457

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Guy-Uriel E. Charles is an American legal scholar. Early life and education Charles is of Haitian descent. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Spring Arbor University in 1992, then attended the University of Michigan Law School. While a student at Michigan, he helped found the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, serving as the publication's first chief editor.

#1666

Lynne A. Battaglia

#45067

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Lynne Ann Battaglia is an American lawyer and former jurist from Howard County, Maryland. From 2001 to 2016 she served as an associate judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals. Background Battaglia was born in Buffalo, New York. She earned a J.D. degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1974 and was admitted to the bar that same year. Appointed by governor Parris Glendening, since 2001 she has been an associate judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest appellate court. Formerly, she served as United States Attorney for the District of Maryland and as Chief of Staff to Senator Barbara A.

#1667

Amy Klobuchar

#29046

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Amy Jean Klobuchar is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota, a seat she has held since 2007. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party , Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the county attorney of Hennepin County, Minnesota.

#1668

Johan Rockström

Johan Rockström

#8544

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Johan Rockström is a Swedish scientist, internationally recognized for his work on global sustainability issues. He is joint director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, together with economist Ottmar Edenhofer. He is also Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam and Professor in Water Systems and Global Sustainability, Stockholm University.

#1669

Bruce C. Hafen

#55685

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Bruce Clark Hafen is an American attorney, academic and religious leader. He has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1996. Early life Hafen was raised in St. George, Utah by Orval Hafen and his wife, the former Ruth Clark. Hafen's father was a lawyer and State Senator. His father died while he was a youth. After his father's death his mother was an instructor in the French language at Dixie College. In 1960, Hafen received an associate degree from Dixie College . He then served a mission for the LDS Church in the West German Mission from 1960 to 1963.

#1670

Rhona Smith

#49625

Overall Influence

Rhona K. M. Smith is a British legal academic. She is professor of international human rights and former head of Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University and was the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia.

#1671

Philip McConnaughay

#83737

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Philip J. McConnaughay , is the current dean and professor of law at Peking University School of Transnational Law. Previously, he was the dean and The Donald J. Farage Professor of Law at The Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law and a professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He was admitted to Illinois bar in 1978; 1979, California; 1983, District of Columbia; 1992–1994, Japan; 1994–1996, Hong Kong.

#1672

Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito

Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito

#40424

Overall Influence

1942 - 2009 (67 years)

Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito was a Brazilian judge who sat on the Supreme Federal Court, the highest court of law in Brazil, from his appointment in 2007 until his death in 2009. Direito received his law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 1965. He served as a judge on the Superior Court of Justice until 2007.

#1673

J. Thomas McCarthy

#50523

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

J. Thomas McCarthy is a Professor Emeritus at the University of San Francisco School of Law and an internationally recognized authority in the field of trademarks. He is the founding director of the McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property and Technology Law. He has practiced, written, and taught in the field of trademarks and unfair competition and is a frequent speaker on the subject. He is the author of the authoritative work on intellectual property law, McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition.

#1674

Xu Zhangrun

#35616

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Xu Zhangrun is a Chinese jurist. He was a professor of Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and a research fellow with the Unirule Institute of Economics. His dissident writing having previously caused retributions by the authorities, in July 2020 he was detained for a week and subsequently barred from leaving Beijing. Observers believed this to be the result of an essay in which Xu sharply criticized the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in China under Paramount leader Xi Jinping.

#1675

Sławomira Wronkowska-Jaśkiewicz

Sławomira Wronkowska-Jaśkiewicz

#54407

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Sławomira Kazimiera Wronkowska-Jaśkiewicz, PR is a Polish legal scholar, Professor emeritus of Jurisprudence at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She has a particular interest in legal theory, legislation, legal interpretation, legal reasoning and philosophy of law. She belongs to the Poznań school of legal theory.

#1676

David Ormerod

#71273

Overall Influence

David Christopher Ormerod CBE, KC , DCL is a professor of criminal law at University College London. He was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2018. Ormerod was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to criminal justice.

#1677

Evaristo de Moraes Filho

#53711

Overall Influence

1914 - 2016 (102 years)

Evaristo de Morais Filho was a Brazilian lawyer and former member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was born in Rio de Janeiro on July 5, 1914, the son of Antônio Evaristo de Morais and Flávia Dias de Morais, and died on July 22, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, at the age of 102. He was married to Hileda Flores de Moraes, with whom he had a couple of children.

#1678

Alexandra Dunn

#62281

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Alexandra Dapolito Dunn is an American environmental lawyer and law professor, specializing in chemical and pesticide regulation, water quality issues, water treatment issues, urban development, rule of law, environmental justice, environmental conflict resolution, cooperative federalism, and implementation of the Clean Water Act and the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. Dunn was an executive at several environmental management associations, and served as Regional Administrator for New England in the US Environmental Protection Agency , and Assistant Administrator ...

#1679

Yücel Oğurlu

#90718

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Yücel Oğurlu is a Turkish jurist, lawyer and professor of administrative law. Early life and education He graduated from the Istanbul Commerce University Faculty of Law in 1992. He completed Fiscal Law Master Programme and Public Law Doctorate Programme at Marmara University.

#1680

Johannes Feest

#74495

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Johannes Feest is a German penologist and sociologist of law. He studied law in Vienna and Munich and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1974 until his retirement in 2005 he was professor of criminal law at the University of Bremen . From 1995 to 1997 he directed the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati. He has done research on the courts, police and prisons. Presently, he is primarily engaged with German prison policy. In 2019, he initiated a manifesto to abolish penitentiaries and other prisons. He is the brother of Christian Feest and Gerhard G...

#1681

Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker

#65632

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (98 years)

Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker is a German lawyer. He was professor of private law at Georgetown University, Saarland University, University of Münster, University of Bielefeld, University of Hamburg, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 1984 to 1990 he was director of the German Max Planck Society. He is on the editorial board of the academic journal ORDO and member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.

#1682

Ratna Kapur

#76041

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Ratna Kapur is a law professor and former director of the Center for Feminist Legal Research in New Delhi, India [1995–2012]. Education and career Ratna Kapur has a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University and an LLM. from Harvard Law School.

#1683

Louis B. Schwartz

#60752

Overall Influence

1913 - 2003 (90 years)

Louis Brown Schwartz was the Benjamin Franklin and University Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Biography Schwartz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Samuel Schwartz and Rose Brown. Schwartz and his wife, Mimi, had two daughters, Johanna and Victoria Schwartz.

#1684

Jack Guttenberg

Jack Guttenberg

#64273

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Jack Aaron Guttenberg is an American jurist, legal scholar, and professor of law, who served as Dean of Capital University Law School from 2004 to 2010. He guided the school through implementation of the strategic plan, Building on our Momentum, Securing our Future.

#1685

Thomas de Maizière

#45455

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Karl Ernst Thomas de Maizière is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2011 and 2013 to 2018, as well as Federal Minister of Defence from 2011 to 2013. He previously served as Head of the Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the First Merkel cabinet from 2005 to 2009. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Bundestag for Meißen.

#1686

Susan Scafidi

#46285

Overall Influence

Susan Scafidi is an American lawyer, legal scholar, advocate, nonprofit executive, and commentator. The first professor to offer a formal course on fashion law at a U.S. law school, she is the founder and president of the Fashion Law Institute, a nonprofit organization located at the Fordham University School of Law in New York City.

#1687

Daniel L. Rubinfeld

#36255

Overall Influence

Daniel Lee Rubinfeld is an American economist specializing in public economics and law and economics. He is a professor of law at the New York University School of Law, as well as the Robert L. Bridges Professor Emeritus of Law and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of two textbooks: Microeconomics and Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts.

#1688

C. Allen Foster

#87448

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

C. Allen Foster is a lawyer based in Washington, D.C. Education Allen Foster graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1963. He was a Fulbright scholar at Oxford University , receiving a First Class Honors Degree in Jurisprudence in 1965 and an M.A. in 1971. He received his J.D. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1967.

#1689

Henry L. Marsh

#39696

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Henry Leander Marsh III is an American civil rights lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Marsh was elected by the city council as the first African-American mayor of Richmond, Virginia in 1977. He was elected to the Senate of Virginia in 1991, and resigned from his seat in 2014. Marsh represented the 16th district, consisting of the city of Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, and parts of the city of Richmond, and Chesterfield and Prince George counties. Marsh is now a commissioner on the Virginia Department of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, a position to which he received appointment from Gov...

#1690

Van C. Mow

#32038

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Van C. Mow is a Chinese-born-American bioengineer, known as one of the earliest researchers in the field of biomechanics. Van C. Mow has published over 315 full-length peer-reviewed, archival papers and book chapters, has delivered over 450 podium presentations at bioengineering meetings, and he has delivered over 450 invited seminars, keynote, plenary and distinguished named lectures in orthopaedic biomechanics. According to Google Scholar, his papers have been cited over 33,500 times, and he has an h-index of 100 as of October 5, 2015.

#1691

Duane Benton

#51356

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

William Duane Benton , known professionally as Duane Benton, is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Education Benton graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972, and received a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1975, where he was Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal and graduated alongside Justice Samuel Alito. Benton also has a Master of Business Administration from Memphis State University and a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia School of Law. Subsequently, Benton was selected as a Danforth Fellow at Harvard's John F.

#1692

Connie Eaves

#52809

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Connie Jean Eaves, CorrFRSE , is a Canadian biologist with significant contributions to cancer and stem cell research. Eaves is a professor generics of genetics at the University of British Columbia and is also the co-founder with Allen C Eaves of Terry Fox Laboratory .

#1693

Angelika Nussberger

#73578

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Angelika Helene Anna Nußberger is a German professor of law and scholar of Slavic studies, and was the judge in respect of Germany at the European Court of Human Rights from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2019; from 2017 to 2019 she was the Court’s Vice-President. She had previously been Vice-Rector of the University of Cologne. Currently she is Director of the Institute of Eastern European Law and Comparative Law of the University of Cologne.

#1694

Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

#56745

Overall Influence

1944 - 2019 (75 years)

Donald Eugene Wilkes Jr. from Daytona Beach, Florida A graduate of the University of Florida Wilkes became professor of law at the University of Georgia in 1971. He was a member of the State Bar of Georgia starting in 1972 and in 1975–1976 was a fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard University Law School.

#1695

Jan Fridthjof Bernt

#48914

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Jan Fridthjof Bernt is a Norwegian professor of law and former rector at the University of Bergen. He graduated with the cand.jur. degree from the University of Oslo in 1968, with the Master of Comparative Law from the University of Michigan in 1971 and took the dr.juris degree at the University of Bergen in 1979. In 1980, he was appointed as professor of law at the University of Bergen. He was elected as rector of the university from 1996 to 1998.

#1696

Stephen Allan Scott

#74419

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Stephen Allan Scott is a Canadian law professor at McGill University. Career Scott was born in Montreal in 1940. He graduated from Westmount High School and graduated with first class honours from McGill University with a BA in 1961 with a BA in Economics and Political Science. Next he attended Oxford University on fellowships, before attending the McGill University Faculty of Law in 1963. He graduated from the law school with a BCL in 1966, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Law Journal. In 1969 he graduated with a D. Phil. from Oxford University. He became a Full Professor of Law in 1977 and has been a Professor-Emeritus since 2003.

#1697

Frederik Zimmer

#82240

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Frederik Zimmer is a Norwegian legal scholar. He graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1970. He worked as a deputy judge from 1970 to 1971, then as a lecturer and research fellow at the University of Oslo from 1971. He took his dr.juris degree in 1978 and was promoted to professor in 1987. His field is tax law.

#1698

John Phillips

#67199

Overall Influence

John C. Phillips is a Professor of Law at King's College London School of Law. He was the Head of the School of Law from 2002 to 2005. Biography Phillips is a commercial lawyer, specialising in intellectual property and the law of guarantee. He graduated from Cambridge University, and practised as a barrister. He was the University of Western Australia Faculty of Law Dean from 1993 to 1996. He moved to King's College, London and became the Head of the School of Law from 2002 to 2005.

#1699

Carole E. Handler

#40187

Overall Influence

Carole Enid Handler was an American lawyer who specializes in intellectual property litigation in the areas of trademark, copyright and antitrust laws, particularly those related to entertainment and media industry. She is commonly known as the "lawyer who saved Spider-Man."

#1700

C. Scott Hemphill

#82023

Overall Influence

C. Scott Hemphill is a legal academic whose scholarship focuses on intellectual property law and antitrust law. He is currently a Professor of Law at New York University Law School, where he has taught since 2015. Previously, Hemphill was a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

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