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#2001

Ramin Gurbanov

#73542

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Ramin Afad oglu Gurbanov is an Azerbaijani lawyer, scholar, and the current president of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice of the Council of Europe. He is also a judge of the Baku Court of Appeal, a member of the Management Board of the Union of Associations of Judges of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Head of the Department of International Law of the Institute of Law and Human Rights at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He is a Doctor of Law and Professor of the Department of Civil Law Disciplines at the Russian University of Economics.

#2002

Ståle Eskeland

#82683

Overall Influence

1943 - 2015 (72 years)

Ståle Eskeland was a Norwegian jurist. Born in Stavanger, he took the cand.jur. degree in 1970 and the dr.juris degree in 1988. He was an associate professor in the sociology of law for some time, and has also worked in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority and the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority. In 1990 he was appointed professor of jurisprudence at the University of Oslo. His juridical publications include Den psykiatriske pasient og loven , Fangerett , Økonomiske forbrytelser og straff , Grunnloven og Schengensamarbeidet and Strafferett .

#2003

Meritxell Batet

#83125

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Meritxell Batet Lamaña is a Spanish jurist, former politician, and member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia , who served as President of the Congress of Deputies from 2019 to 2023. Prior to this, she served as Minister for Territorial Policy and Civil Service of the Government of Spain between June 2018 and May 2019.

#2004

Lutz Meyer-Goßner

#91510

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Lutz Meyer-Goßner is a German lawyer, jurist and law professor. He was a judge of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany from 1983 to 2001. Meyer-Goßner was born in Nienburg, Lower Saxony to Arnold Meyer and Liselotte geb. Goßner. His father was an evangelical pastor. He grew up in Celle, which is also in Lower Saxony, and attended the humanistic Gymnasium Ernestinum there, graduating in 1955. He studied law at the universities of Tübingen and Munich and passed his initial state law exam in 1959. In 1962 he received his doctorate from the University of Munich.

#2005

Bernard Hibbitts

#81943

Overall Influence

Bernard Hibbitts is a Canadian lawyer, law professor, academic entrepreneur, editor and publisher currently teaching in the United States at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Trained as a legal historian, his early work focused on the historical relationship between law, technology and the senses. In the mid-1990s he wrote a series of controversial articles on the future of law reviews and scholarly publishing in the then-just-emerging age of the Internet. He is best known today as the founder, publisher & Editor-in-Chief of JURIST, the Webby award-winning online legal news service h...

#2006

Scott Makar

#59901

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Scott Douglas Makar is an American lawyer, college professor and Judge on Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeal, recommissioned from the First District Court of Appeal on January 1, 2023 by Governor Ron DeSantis. Previously he was the Florida Solicitor General serving from 2007 until 2012 and in that position, argued five cases before the United States Supreme Court.

#2007

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

#44395

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Tomiko Brown-Nagin is an American law professor, historian, author, and university leader. She is dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, one of the world's leading centers for interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, and professions. She is also the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and a Harvard University professor of history.

#2008

Kyrsten Sinema

#41588

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Kyrsten Lea Sinema is an American politician and former social worker serving as the senior United States senator from Arizona, a seat she has held since 2019. A former member of the Democratic Party, Sinema became an independent in December 2022.

#2009

Ineta Ziemele

#93975

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Ineta Ziemele is Latvian jurist and judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia since 2015. On 8 May 2017 she was elected to be the President of the Constitutional Court. In 1995, she was a founding member of the Latvian Section of the International Commission of Jurists.

#2010

Christine Gregoire

#50342

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Christine Gregoire is an American politician who served as the 22nd governor of Washington from 2005 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she defeated Republican candidate Dino Rossi in 2004, and again in 2008. She is the second female governor of Washington. Gregoire chaired the National Governors Association for the 2010–2011 term. She also served on the Governors' Council of the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D. C.

#2011

Irwin Cotler

#43134

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Irwin Cotler is a retired Canadian politician who was Member of Parliament for Mount Royal from 1999 to 2015. He served as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2003 until the Liberal government of Paul Martin lost power following the 2006 federal election. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election in November 1999, winning 92% of votes cast.

#2012

Susan Glazebrook

Susan Glazebrook

#47164

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Dame Susan Gwynfa Mary Glazebrook is a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Early life, family and education Born in Bowdon, Cheshire, England, on 8 February 1956, Glazebrook emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1962, and she became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1978. She was educated at Tauranga Girls' College, before going on to study at the University of Auckland, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts in 1975, a Master of Arts with first-class honours in history in 1978, and an LLB in 1980. She later completed a DipBus at the same institution in 1994. In 1988, Glazebroo...

#2013

Norman Sharpless

Norman Sharpless

#16530

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Norman Edward "Ned" Sharpless is the previous Director of the National Cancer Institute . Before that, Sharpless was Professor of Medicine and Genetics Chair, Director of University of North Carolina UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Molecular Therapeutics, Wellcome Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Research.

#2014

Jeffrey Addicott

#104196

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Jeffrey Frank Addicott is an American lawyer, legal scholar and educator. He is the Director of the Warrior Defense Project at St. Mary's University School of Law St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas.

#2015

Marko Milanović

#54213

Overall Influence

Marko Milanović is Professor of Public International Law at the School of Law of the University of Reading. He is an editor of the European Journal of International Law and its blog, EJIL: Talk!. He is co-general editor of the ongoing Tallinn Manual 3.0 project on the application of international law in cyberspace and a Senior Fellow at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. In recognition of his work on the application of international law to cyberspace Milanović was awarded the Serge Lazareff Prize for excellence in legal services by the NATO Allied Command Operations Office of Legal Affairs.

#2016

Joel Dobris

#65688

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Joel C. Dobris is a Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law . Dobris is one of the most cited legal academics in the country in the area of the law of Wills, Trusts, and Estates. His book, Estates and Trusts, is a widely used textbook at American law schools.

#2017

Simon Lee

#39944

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Simon Francis Lee is a Professor of Law at Aston University, Visiting Fellow, St Edmund's College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at Queen's University Belfast. He was Rector of Liverpool Hope University from 1995 to 2003.

#2018

Elizabeth M. Boyer

#60613

Overall Influence

1913 - 2002 (89 years)

Elizabeth M. Boyer was an American lawyer, feminist and writer. In 1937, she earned a B.S. in education from Bowling Green State University. In 1947, she received her law degree from Cleveland State University College of Law. In 1950, she earned her Masters of Law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She was a full professor of business law at Cuyahoga Community College.

#2019

William Baxter

#75866

Overall Influence

1929 - 1998 (69 years)

William Francis Baxter, Jr. was a law professor at Stanford University. His specialty was antitrust law. Antitrust Law As Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1981–1983, Baxter commanded wide public attention when in 1982 he settled a seven-year-old case against AT&T with by far the largest breakup in the history of the Sherman Antitrust Act, splitting AT&T up into seven regional phone companies. On that same day, he dismissed as "without merit" a seemingly endless, thirteen-year-old suit against IBM, which had employed more than 300 lawyers and generated 2,500 depositions and 66 million pages of documents.

#2020

Cameron Stracher

#101856

Overall Influence

Cameron Stracher is a writer, law professor, and media lawyer. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and teaches at New York Law School. After graduating from Harvard, he worked for one year at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and then moved to Iowa City, Iowa, where he received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and taught legal writing at the University of Iowa College of Law. Moving to New York City, he then spent five years at CBS, where he specialized in First Amendment litigation and other legal issues facing the media. Until August 2004, he was a partner at the law firm of Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz in New York City.

#2021

Rogier M. Bertina

#112516

Overall Influence

#2022

Matthew D. Orwig

Matthew D. Orwig

#70282

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Matthew D. Orwig is an American attorney. Orwig has served three presidents and five attorneys general in leadership positions in the Department of Justice. He was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas

#2023

Eldred Tabachnik

#83421

Overall Influence

1943 - 2020 (77 years)

Eldred Tabachnik, QC was a South African-born English barrister, recorder and a former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. He was President of the British Friends of Boys Town Jerusalem.

#2024

Nils Nygaard

#104181

Overall Influence

1932 - 2015 (83 years)

Nils Andreas Nygaard was a Norwegian professor of law. He was born in Imsland. He took the dr.juris degree in 1974 on the thesis Aktløysevurderinga i norsk rettspraksis and was hired as a professor of jurisprudence at the University of Bergen in 1977. He has many notable publications.

#2025

Archibald Cox

#67577

Overall Influence

1912 - 2004 (92 years)

Archibald Cox Jr. was an American legal scholar who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal. During his career, he was a pioneering expert on labor law and was also an authority on constitutional law. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Cox as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century.

#2026

Reuben V. Anderson

#87674

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Reuben V. Anderson is an American attorney who served as a justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court from 1985 to 1990. Early life Anderson was born in 1943, in Jackson, Mississippi. His father was a bricklayer, and his great-great-grandparents were slaves. He graduated from Tougaloo College in 1965. He received his law degree in 1967, from the University of Mississippi, a mere five years after it admitted its first black student, James Meredith, and four years after it admitted its first black law student.

#2027

Daniel Epps

#97385

Overall Influence

Daniel Epps is a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Epps teaches first-year criminal law, upper-level courses in criminal procedure, and a seminar on public law theory. His scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Michigan Law Review, and the NYU Law Review, and his writing for popular audiences has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox, and The Atlantic. His and Ganesh Sitaraman's proposal to expand the size of the Supreme Court was endorsed by Mayor Pete Buttigieg during his run for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.

#2028

Samuel Dash

#89679

Overall Influence

1925 - 2004 (79 years)

Samuel Dash was an American lawyer. He was chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee during the Watergate scandal. Dash became famous for his televised interrogations during the hearings held by the United States Congress on the Watergate incident.

#2029

Julia Laffranque

#65840

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Julia Laffranque , is an Estonian jurist, judge, legal scientist , visiting professor of European law Justice at the Supreme Court of Estonia, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights 2011 - 2020 . Since 4 June 2018 also a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency, earlier professor of European law at the University of Tartu. Since 2020 member of the Board of Trustees, the Foundation Academy of European Law Trier . In 2019 she was a candidate for the post of European Ombudsman. In 2020 she was appointed as Director of Programme of the European Law A...

#2030

Tudor Drăganu

#90773

Overall Influence

1912 - 2010 (98 years)

Tudor Drăganu was a Romanian jurist who specialized in constitutional law. Born in Năsăud, in what was then Austria-Hungary, his father was linguist Nicolae Drăganu. After completing primary school in his native town, he went to George Barițiu High School in Cluj, followed by the law faculty of the University of Cluj. There, he successively worked as assistant, associate and full professor of constitutional and administrative law. He was elected an honorary member of the Romanian Academy in 2003.

#2031

Robert Stevens

#67916

Overall Influence

1933 - 2021 (88 years)

Robert Bocking Stevens was a British lawyer and academic. Life Stevens was educated at Oakham School and then at Keble College, Oxford, where he obtained his BA and BCL degrees. He was called to the bar in 1956 as a member of Gray's Inn. In 1958, he was awarded an LLM from Yale University. He then became a member of staff there, rising from assistant professor to associate professor and finally to professor . He was then Provost of Tulane University, Louisiana from 1976 to 1978, when he became President of Haverford College, Pennsylvania, leaving there in 1987 to become Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

#2032

Ulrich K. Preuss

Ulrich K. Preuss

#47858

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Ulrich K. Preuß teaches Theories of the State at the Hertie School of Governance. He holds a PhD from Gießen University and worked as Professor for Public Law at the University of Bremen from 1972 to 1996. Since 1996, Preuß has been a Professor of Public Law and Politics at Freie Universität Berlin. In 1989/90, he co-authored the draft of the constitution as a participant of the Round Table of the German Democratic Republic, and in 1992/93 he advised the Thuringian parliament on the conception of a new constitution. He has taught at Princeton University, New School University, and the University of Chicago.

#2033

Ian Dennis

#93505

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Ian Dennis is Professor of English Law at the University College London Law Faculty and Director of the Centre for Criminal Law. Dennis was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Queens' College, Cambridge. He joined the Faculty in 1974, becoming a Reader in 1982, and a Professor in 1987. He was called to the bar in 1971 at Gray's Inn.

#2034

Sheila McLean

#59133

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Sheila Ann Manson McLean is International Bar Association Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine and director of the Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow. McLean is the Book Reviewers' Editor for Medical Law International.

#2035

Robert A. Williams Jr.

#52208

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Robert A. Williams Jr. is an American lawyer, author, and legal scholar. He works in the fields of federal Indian law, international law, indigenous peoples’ rights, critical race and post-colonial theory. Williams teaches at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law, serving as Regents Professor, E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and Faculty Chair of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program. Williams is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina. He earned his B.A. from Loyola University Maryland in Maryland in 1977 and his J.D. from Harvard University Law School in 1980.

#2036

Zandra Rhodes

#7200

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, , is an English fashion and textile designer. Her early education in fashion set the foundation for a career in the industry creating textile prints. Rhodes has designed garments for Diana, Princess of Wales and numerous celebrities such as rock stars Freddie Mercury and Marc Bolan. She has also designed textiles for interiors, featuring her prints on furniture and homewares. In 2003 Rhodes founded the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.

#2037

Peter Jan Sterk

#113391

Overall Influence

#2038

Paul Bender

#62152

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Paul Bender is an American attorney, author, judge, and former dean of the Arizona State University college of law. He was formerly a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Over his career Bender has argued more than 20 cases before the United States Supreme Court. He is often cited as an expert in constitutional law.

#2039

Joaquin Avila

#51847

Overall Influence

1948 - 2018 (70 years)

Joaquin Guadalupe Avila was an American voting rights attorney and activist. Avila spent more than two decades using the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 to increase election fairness for minority voters. But as several court precedents weakened the federal Voting Rights Act, Avila conceived of state voting rights acts as a way to again strengthen minority voting rights. Thus Avila crafted the California Voting Rights Act that was enacted in 2001.

#2040

Letizia Paoli

#79897

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Letizia Paoli is a criminologist, originally from Prato. Since 2006 she has been a professor of the Law Faculty at Leuven/Louvain University. She served, between 2009 and 2016, as chair of the sometimes troubled "Freiburg Sports Medicine Commission" at Freiburg University.

#2041

Sherene Razack

#55766

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Sherene Razack is a Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies in the Department of Gender Studies, University of California at Los Angeles. As a feminist critical race scholar, her research and teaching focus on racial violence. She is best known for her contributions to feminist and critical race studies about discrimination against Muslim and Indigenous women in Canada, systemic racism in the Canadian justice system, and colonial violence against Indigenous peoples worldwide. She is the founder of the virtual research and teaching network Racial Violence Hub .

#2042

Roy A. Jensen

#113515

Overall Influence

#2043

Henry N. Butler

#58301

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Henry Nodle Butler is an American professor of law, economics, and public policy and former executive director of the Law and Economics Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington, Virginia.

#2044

Rosalind Croucher

Rosalind Croucher

#85668

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Rosalind Frances Croucher is an Australian lawyer and academic who is the current President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, in office since July 2017. She was previously President of the Australian Law Reform Commission from December 2009 until July 2017, having served as a full-time commissioner since 2007.

#2045

Benjamin Perrin

Benjamin Perrin

#47348

Overall Influence

Benjamin Perrin is a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Human trafficking opponent Perrin is involved with human trafficking research and activism, and wrote the 2010 book Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking. This book deals extensively with a gang of pimps called North Preston's Finest and includes an account of the disappearance of Jessie Foster. Perrin received a George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature nomination for having written this book. Perrin helped Joy Smith develop the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking.

#2046

Tom Campbell

#62599

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Thomas John Campbell is an American academic, educator, and politician. He is a professor of law at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law, and a professor of economics at the George Argyros School of Business and Economics, at Chapman University, in Orange, California.

#2047

Martha West

#67981

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Martha Smeltzer West an American attorney and legal scholar who served as general counsel for the American Association of University Professors and Professor Emerita at the UC Davis School of Law. In 1998, she won California's first federal grant under the Violence Against Women Act, using the money to found the Family Protection and Legal Assistance Clinic at UC Davis Law School. West was the lead author of the 2005 white paper "Unprecedented Urgency: Gender Discrimination in Faculty Hiring at the University of California" and of the 2006 AAUP report "Organizing around Gender Equity."

#2048

Steve Peers

#54513

Overall Influence

Steve Peers is a British academic and an expert on the European Union. He is a professor in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of EU Justice and Home Affairs Law and The Brexit: The Legal Framework for Withdrawal from the EU or Renegotiation of EU Membership.

#2049

Michael Avery

#106475

Overall Influence

Michael Avery is a professor at Suffolk University Law School and a civil rights lawyer. He was the president of the National Lawyers Guild from 2003 to 2006. He is currently the President of the Board of the National Police Accountability Project.

#2050

Kent Markus

#98577

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Kent Richard Markus is an American attorney. He currently works as bar counsel and general counsel for the Columbus Bar Association. Before working at the CBA, he served as a Senior Advisor in the Director's Office and Director of Enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Markus served as Counselor and Chief Legal Counsel to Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and as a law professor Capital University Law School. During the administration of President Clinton, he was a senior official at the United States Department of Justice. Markus was also a federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Co...

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