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#1851

Jeremy Scott

#3124

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer. He is the sole owner of his namesake label, and from October 2013 to March 2023 was the creative director of the fashion house Moschino. Since launching his brand in Paris in 1997, Scott has built a reputation as "pop culture's most irreverent designer", and "fashion's last rebel".

#1852

Stephen Todd

#75639

Overall Influence

Stephen Todd is a lawyer and a Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2022 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. The society said "Stephen Todd is a highly influential scholar in private law. He is author or part-author of seven books and author of 49 articles and of chapters in 21 books. His work is widely cited and has had exceptional impact in New Zealand courts and in higher courts overseas."

#1853

Helen Keller

#86533

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Helen Keller is a Swiss lawyer and international judge. She is a professor of law at the University of Zurich. Biography After studying law at the University of Zurich, Helen Keller was an assistant at the chairs of Alfred Kölz and Heribert Rausch. At the latter, she completed her doctorate in 1993 with a dissertation on environmental constitutional law, for which she was awarded the Professor Walther Hug Prize. After an LL.M. degree at the College of Europe in Bruges, two research stays at the European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School and at the European University Institute in Florence followed, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

#1854

Neil Duxbury

#73359

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Neil Duxbury is a British legal scholar. Education He received his LLB degree from the University of Hull Law School in 1984. He received his PhD from London School of Economics in 1988. Career Duxbury is a professor of English law at the London School of Economics. He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010.

#1855

Franklin Zimring

#82024

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Franklin E. Zimring is an American criminologist, law professor, and the William G. Simon Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Early life and education Zimring was born on December 2, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, to television and film writer Maurice Zimring, better known by his stage name Maurice Zimm, and his wife Molly, a lawyer who passed the California Bar in 1933. After graduating from Los Angeles Public Schools, he received his B.A. with distinction from Wayne State University in 1963 and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Chicago in 1967.

#1856

Jaap Doek

#28949

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Jaap Egbert Doek is a Dutch jurist, specialising in family and juvenile law. He is a professor of law at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where he was the dean of the law faculty from 1988 to 1992. He is a deputy justice in the Court of Appeal of Amsterdam and he was a juvenile court judge in the district court of Alkmaar and the Hague .

#1857

Glyn Elwyn

#73807

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Glyn Elwyn is a professor and physician-researcher at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, USA, where he directs the Patient Engagement Research Program. He also leads The Preference Laboratory, an international interdisciplinary team at The Dartmouth Institute, examining the implementation of shared decision making into clinical settings, using tools and measures such as collaboRATE, a patient experience measure of shared decision making, and Observer OPTION, a process measure for shared decision making for use on recorded data.

#1858

Thomas Puccio

#66809

Overall Influence

1944 - 2012 (68 years)

Thomas Phillip Puccio was an American trial attorney who served in the United States Department of Justice, including as an investigator and prosecutor in the Abscam case, before working as a criminal defense lawyer representing high-profile clients such as Claus von Bülow.

#1859

Peter Lødrup

#79222

Overall Influence

1932 - 2010 (78 years)

Peter Lødrup was a Norwegian legal scholar and judge. He was born in Bærum and grew up in Oslo as a son of district stipendiary magistrate Mentz Darre Lødrup and writer Evi Bøgenæs Lødrup . He finished his secondary education at Frogner School in 1951 and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1957. He was hired as a research assistant at the University of Oslo in the same year. In March 1958 he married Grethe Faye.

#1860

Pedro Cruz Villalón

#37258

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Pedro Cruz Villalón is a Spanish jurist who served as an Advocate General at the European Court of Justice. He was chief justice of the Constitutional Court of Spain . Cruz Villalón was awarded Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía in 2001.

#1861

Wade MacLauchlan

#30956

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

H. Wade MacLauchlan , is a Canadian legal academic, university administrator, politician and community leader. He served as the fifth president of the University of Prince Edward Island from 1999 to 2011, becoming president emeritus in 2012. He served as the 32nd premier of Prince Edward Island from 2015 to 2019. His government was defeated in the April 23, 2019 general election. MacLauchlan announced his intention to step down as Liberal leader on 26 April 2019, and completed his term as Premier on 9 May 2019.

#1862

Benjamin Alarie

#79900

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Benjamin Alarie is a Canadian jurist, law professor, and entrepreneur. He serves as Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he also holds the Osler Chair in Business Law. He is an author of many publications in the domain of taxation and constitutional law with respect to issues of taxation and fiscal federalism. Alarie is co-founder and CEO of Blue J, a legal software company based in Toronto, Canada.

#1863

Morris B. Abram

Morris B. Abram

#21806

Overall Influence

1918 - 2000 (82 years)

Morris Berthold Abram was an American lawyer, civil rights activist, and for two years president of Brandeis University. In 1953 he successfully sought the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Fifth District in Georgia, urging the desegregation of schools, but lost the election in 1954.

#1864

Matthias Prinz

#98194

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Matthias Prinz is a German lawyer who works in the field of reputation and privacy protection, defamation, media, entertainment and sports law. He has represented major corporations, including SAP, Audi, Volkswagen, T-Mobile as well as individuals including the Swedish Royal Family, Princess Caroline of Hanover, The Sultan of Brunei, Prince Albert of Monaco, Helmut Newton, David Beckham, Don Johnson and Karl Lagerfeld.

#1865

Peter-Tobias Stoll

#99044

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Peter-Tobias Stoll is a German jurist. He is a professor of public law and public international law at the Georg August University of Göttingen. He has been and is a member of national bodies to oversee international cooperation in global environmental research.

#1866

Christopher M. Fairman

Christopher M. Fairman

#59442

Overall Influence

1960 - 2015 (55 years)

Christopher M. Fairman was a professor of law at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty. He was also the C. William O'Neill Professor in Law and Judicial Administration.

#1867

Howard F. Chang

#73538

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Howard Fenghau Chang is an American legal academic and the Earle Hepburn Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Education Howard F. Chang graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1982 with an AB degree in government. In 1985, he received a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he studied economics and public policy. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School with a JD degree in 1987. He was the supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review from 1986 to 1987. He recei...

#1868

Franklin Cleckley

Franklin Cleckley

#72179

Overall Influence

1940 - 2017 (77 years)

Franklin Dorrah Cleckley was an American law professor and judge. He was Arthur B. Hodges Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law. He taught at the law school from 1969 to 2013. He held the endowed professorship emeritus.

#1869

Astrid Epiney

#105992

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Astrid Epiney, born Wander is a German-Swiss jurist. She is professor of international law, European law and Swiss public law at the University of Fribourg, and became its first female rector in 2015.

#1870

Michael A. Bilandic

#33591

Overall Influence

1923 - 2002 (79 years)

Michael Anthony Bilandic was an American Democratic politician and attorney who served as the 49th mayor of Chicago from 1976 to 1979, after the death of his predecessor, Richard J. Daley. Bilandic practiced law in Chicago for several years, having graduated from the DePaul University College of Law. Bilandic served as an alderman in the Chicago City Council, representing the eleventh ward on the south-west side from June 1969 until he began his tenure as mayor in December 1976. After his mayoralty, Bilandic served as chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1994 to 1997.

#1871

Emanuel Ungaro

#3572

Overall Influence

1933 - 2019 (86 years)

Emanuel Ungaro was a French fashion designer who founded the fashion house called the House of Emanuel Ungaro in 1965. Early life Ungaro's Italian father fled to France from Francavilla Fontana of Brindisi province because of the fascist dictatorship in Italy. Ungaro's father was a tailor and he gave his son a sewing machine when he was young.

#1872

Sylvia Bacon

#47193

Overall Influence

1931 - 2023 (92 years)

Sylvia A. Bacon was an American judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia who was considered by both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan as a potential nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States at a time when no women had yet been appointed to the court.

#1873

Ted Kulongoski

#57666

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Theodore Ralph Kulongoski is an American politician, judge, and lawyer who served as the 36th Governor of Oregon from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly and also served as the state Insurance Commissioner. He was the Attorney General of Oregon from 1993 to 1997 and a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1997 to 2001. Kulongoski has served in all three branches of the Oregon state government.

#1874

François Crépeau

François Crépeau

#71053

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

François Crépeau, is a Canadian lawyer and Full Professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University, as well as a former Director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. Professor Crépeau was the 2017–2018 International Francqui Professor Chair in Social Sciences at Université catholique de Louvain, in collaboration with six other Belgian universities. He was the 2016–2017 Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Visiting professor of Human Rights Chair at Georgetown University . He has been guest professor at the following institutions: Centre de recherches sur les droits de l’homme, Uni...

#1875

Long Yifei

#35301

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Long Yifei is the Associate Dean of Renmin University of China Law School, expert on civil law. Biography Long was born in Liaoning in 1959. He received his LL.B. degree from Jilin University Department of Law, LL.M. and LL.D degrees from Renmin University of China Department of Law in 1985 and 1991.

#1876

John Breaux

#41285

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

John Berlinger Breaux is an American lobbyist, attorney, and retired politician who was a member of the United States Senate from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987. He was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party. Breaux was a member of the New Democrat Coalition.

#1877

Mihir Desai

#42438

Overall Influence

Mihir Desai is a human rights lawyer in cases of mass murders & riots, fake encounter & custodial deaths by the police, police brutality, freedom of speech & journalists, political activists & prisoners of conscience, excesses by the state, mass disappearances & deaths and genocide probes. A senior counsel, he has been practicing criminal matters in Bombay High Court, Mumbai and the Supreme Court of India.

#1878

Jacob George

#106464

Overall Influence

#1879

Max Kennedy

#45689

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Matthew Maxwell Taylor "Max" Kennedy is an American lawyer and author. He is the ninth child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. Early life and education Max Kennedy was born in New York City's Roosevelt Hospital on January 11, 1965, the ninth child of the eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. Kennedy was baptized as a Catholic by William Jerome McCormack at St. Patrick's Cathedral in front of a crowd of 200 people. He is named after General Maxwell D. Taylor, then U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam. Kennedy was hospitalized in Bethesda, Maryland, at age 12 after h...

#1880

Samantha Besson

#89713

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Samantha Besson, born on March 30, 1973, in Beirut, is a law professor specialized in Public International Law and European Law. She holds the chair "The International Law of Institutions" at the Collège de France and is a part-time professor at the University of Fribourg .

#1881

Enrique Álvarez Conde

#92511

Overall Influence

1952 - 2019 (67 years)

Enrique Álvarez Conde was a Spanish academic. He was born in the town of Matilla de Arzón, located in the province of Zamora, in 1952. He graduated in law from the University of Valladolid . He worked as an assistant professor of political law in the center between 1974 and 1976. This year he got his doctorate in law at UVA.

#1882

Deryck Beyleveld

#59726

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Deryck Beyleveld is founding Director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics and is now a member of Durham CELLS . He is Professor of Law and Bioethics, and a former Head of Law School at Durham University. He is on the editorial board of Medical Law International.

#1883

E. Gordon Gee

#22804

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Elwood Gordon Gee is an American academic administrator. As of 2023, he was serving his second term as President of West Virginia University; his first term was from 1981 to 1985. Gee has held more university presidencies than any other American. He was head of University of Colorado Boulder from 1985 to 1990, of Ohio State University from 1990 to 1997, of Brown University from 1998 to 2000, of Vanderbilt University from 2000 to 2007, and of Ohio State University for a second time from 2007 to 2013.

#1884

Eleanor M. Fox

#40420

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Eleanor M. Fox is an academic who studies antitrust, economic development, globalization, International trade law, and the European Union. She is the Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation in the New York University School of Law.

#1885

Marcela Iacub

#52520

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Marcela Iacub is an Argentine writer and jurist specializing in bioethics research, living in France. In 2013, Iacub was successfully sued for invasion of privacy by Dominique Strauss-Kahn: her novel Belle et Bête included a character based on him.

#1886

John L. Carroll

#41011

Overall Influence

John Lawrence Carroll was an American judge and academic administrator who was a U.S. magistrate judge for the Middle District of Alabama from 1986 to 2001. He was also a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. He served as the dean of the Cumberland School of Law in Homewood, Alabama, from 2001 to 2014.

#1887

Milton R. Konvitz

#34787

Overall Influence

1908 - 2003 (95 years)

Milton Ridbas Konvitz was a Cornell University faculty member. He died September 5, 2003, at the age of 95. Early life, education and early career He was born in 1908 in Safed, a city in what is now Israel that was then part of the vilayet of Sidon of the Ottoman Empire, and was the son of Rabbi Joseph Konvitz and grandson of Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky . In 1915, he immigrated to the United States, becoming a citizen in 1926. He studied at New York University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1929 and in 1930 a law degree. In 1933, he received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell. Pr...

#1888

Neil Chayet

#69956

Overall Influence

1939 - 2017 (78 years)

Neil Lewis Chayet was an American lawyer and radio personality. He was known for his weekday feature program Looking at the Law . Early life and education Chayet graduated from Tufts University and the Harvard Law School .

#1889

Ludwig Adamovich Jr.

#68960

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Ludwig Karl Adamovich , commonly known as Ludwig Adamovich Jr., is an Austrian constitutional scholar, civil servant, and educator. From 1956 to 1984, Adamovich worked for the Constitutional Service of the Austrian Chancellery; he also taught law at the University of Graz. From 1984 to 2002, he served as the president of the Austrian Constitutional Court. Since 2004, Adamovich has been acting, on an honorary basis, as an advisor on matters of constitutional law to Presidents Heinz Fischer and Alexander Van der Bellen.

#1890

Frank J. Remington

#75561

Overall Influence

1922 - 1996 (74 years)

Frank John Remington , was a University of Wisconsin law professor, who directed major studies reforming criminal law in the United States. He was a member of the Supreme Court's Standing Committee on Federal Rules and Procedures for 23 years, directed a 1961 study of criminal justice administration for the American Bar Foundation and headed an American Bar Association project to develop standards for the police. He was also a consultant to the President's Commission on Law Enforcement under Lyndon B. Johnson and to the Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders in 1968.

#1891

Carol S. Bruch

#80161

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Carol Sophie Bruch is an American legal scholar and professor emerita of the law school at the University of California, Davis. A recognized authority on family marital property law, and private international law, she has influenced and worked on the drafting of family law statutes in California and other US states, and also international agreements. She holds a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law and an AB from Shimer College.

#1892

Rachid Deriche

#59499

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Rachid Deriche is a research director at Inria Sophia Antipolis, France, where he leads the research project Athena aiming to explore the Central Nervous System using computational imaging. He has published more than 60 journals and more than 180 conferences papers with a Google Scholar H-index of 67. He is known for the development of the edge detection algorithm, named after him.

#1893

David Croft

#8910

Overall Influence

1922 - 2011 (89 years)

Major David John Croft, was an English television comedy screenwriter, producer and director. He produced and wrote a string of BBC sitcoms with partners Jimmy Perry and Jeremy Lloyd, including Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and 'Allo 'Allo!

#1894

Bob McDonnell

#39739

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Robert Francis McDonnell is an American politician, attorney, businessman, academic administrator, and former military officer who served as the 71st governor of Virginia from 2010 to 2014. Born in Philadelphia, McDonnell was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve. He later served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2006, and was attorney general of Virginia from 2006 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, McDonnell was elected governor of Virginia after using the campaign slogan "Bob's for Jobs." He defeated Democratic state Senator Creigh Deeds by a 17-point margin in the 2009 general election, which was marked by the severe recession of the late 2000s.

#1895

Philip K. Howard

Philip K. Howard

#42551

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Philip King Howard is an American lawyer and writer. He has written on the effects of modern law and bureaucracy on human behavior and the workings of society. He started The Common Good, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which advocates simplifying government.

#1896

Jane Kelsey

#61191

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Jane Kelsey is a New Zealand academic and activist who has promoted critical examination of the relationship between social, political and economic issues and how these can impact on human rights and justice. Specifically, within the New Zealand context, she has advocated public policy positions on colonialism and te Tiriti Waitangi, globalisation and neoliberalism, and the role of universities as public institutions. She has published widely on these and other issues, and in 2020 won the Global category of the New Zealand Women of Influence Award. Kelsey was professor of law at the...

#1897

Nicola Padfield

#63496

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Professor Nicola Margaret Padfield KC is a British barrister and academic. She is a former Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. and was succeeded to the position in October 2019 by Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton. She is Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. In addition to her academic work, she was a Recorder of the Crown Court from 2002 to 2014, and is a Bencher of the Middle Temple.

#1898

Luciano Violante

#74196

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Luciano Violante is an Italian judge and politician, Member of Parliament from 1979 to 2008. He is particularly interested in questions of justice, the struggle against the Mafia and institutional reform.

#1899

Jill Fisch

#70774

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Jill E. Fisch is the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Economics in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

#1900

Audrey J. Anderson

#68727

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Audrey J. Anderson is an American attorney specializing in education and health law who was the Vice Chancellor, General Counsel and University Secretary for Vanderbilt University from 2013 to 2018. She currently serves as an adjunct professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School.

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