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List of the most influential people in Law,

#2801

Matilene Berryman

Matilene Berryman

#101436

Overall Influence

1926 - 2003 (77 years)

Matilene Spencer Berryman was an American oceanographer and attorney. Originally from Prince Edward County, Virginia. Early life Berryman was born in Darlington Heights, Prince Edward County, Virginia, to parents Mary and Charles Spencer. She was the fifth of nine children.

#2802

R. Scott Hawley

R. Scott Hawley

#101362

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

R. Scott Hawley is an American geneticist and investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, a member of the US National Academy of sciences and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been President of the Genetics Society of America, and leads a research team focused on the molecular mechanisms that regulate chromosome behavior during meiosis.

#2803

Neil Maccormick

#164216

Overall Influence

#2804

Alexandra Phelan

#113981

Overall Influence

Alexandra Phelan is a faculty member of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University School of Medicine and an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University. She specializes in legal and policy issues that are related to emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, as well as health threats posed by climate change.

#2805

Otmar Seul

#102824

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Otmar Seul was born on August 30, 1943, in Trier and held lectures at the Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense from October 1989 to September 2011 as a Professor of legal German. In cooperation with his German counterpart Werner Merle, he founded the renowned integrated curriculum of French and German law in 1994–1995, joining together the University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense and the University of Potsdam . This curriculum became the centre of a European network of academic cooperation in legal sciences that is open to new forms of studies and research internationalisation. Otmar Seul's...

#2806

Ralf Rogowski

#136163

Overall Influence

Ralf Rogowski is Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Sociology Programme at the University of Warwick. He obtained his first and second legal state exams in Berlin, a Master of Laws degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Phd at the European University Institute in Florence. He has taught at Lancaster University and the Free University in Berlin and was a research associate at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung in Berlin and a visiting fellow at a number of universities, including the Universities of Konstanz, Maastricht and Wisconsin at Madison. From Septem...

#2807

Elisa Palomino

#130583

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Elisa Palomino , also known as Elisa Asuncion Palomino Perez and Elisa Palomino-Perez, is a Spanish fashion designer and educator. Since 2012, she has directed the BA Fashion Print department Central Saint Martins of the University of the Arts London.

#2808

Steven J. Eagle

#148501

Overall Influence

Steven J. Eagle is Professor of Law Emeritus at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Land Use Planning, and Property amongst other subjects, and was formerly a professor of law at George Washington University Law School, Vanderbilt University, the University of Toledo College of Law, and Pace University Law School. Eagle graduated from the City College of New York with a B.A. and received a J.D. from the Yale Law School .

#2809

Rob Frieden

#109272

Overall Influence

Rob Frieden holds the Pioneers Chair and serves as Professor of Telecommunications and Law at Penn State University in the United States. Frieden holds a B.A., with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Virginia .

#2810

Felicia Cosman

#165319

Overall Influence

#2811

Peter W. Hutchins

Peter W. Hutchins

#121280

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Peter William Hutchins was a Canadian lawyer specializing in Canadian Aboriginal law. He was "one of [Canada's] top litigators in aboriginal cases". Early life and academic career Hutchins received a bachelor of arts at McGill University, followed then by his legal education at Université Laval in Quebec City where he obtained an LL.L and at the London School of Economics, University of London where he received an LL.M in international law. In 1980 he created for the Faculty of Law, McGill University, the course Aboriginal Peoples and the Law, which he continued to teach until 1996.

#2812

Ahmad Zahid Hamidi

#58550

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Dato' Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid bin Hamidi is a Malaysian politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Rural and Regional Development since December 2022. A member of the United Malays National Organisation , he has served as its leader and the chairman of the Barisan Nasional coalition since May 2018. Zahid has been the Member of Parliament for Bagan Datuk since April 1995.

#2813

Rina Yerushalmi

#86134

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Rina Yerushalmi is an Israeli theater director and choreographer. Yerushalmi received an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001 and the Israel Prize in Theatre in 2008, among other awards and recognition.

#2814

Robyn Norton

#121005

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Robyn Ngaire Norton is a New Zealand health researcher who is James Martin Fellow and Professor of Public Health at the University of New South Wales. Her research considers women and girls' health. She is the Founder of the George Institute for Global Health.

#2815

Ole Gjems-Onstad

#140818

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Ole Gjems-Onstad is a Norwegian jurist, son of resistance fighter and anti-immigration politician Erik Gjems-Onstad. He graduated from the University of Oslo with a cand.jur. degree in 1979, and took the dr.juris. degree in 1984. In 1985 he was appointed professor in tax law at BI Norwegian Business School. He is also assisting professor at the University of Oslo since 2000 and at the University of Stavanger from 2002 to 2006, as well as adjunct professor at the Queensland University of Technology since 1993.

#2816

Gisèle Côté-Harper

#108149

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Gisèle Côté-Harper, is a Canadian lawyer and professor. She is the 1995 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace for her work as a human rights activist. She is the first Francophone woman to receive such an honor.

#2817

Walter Dellinger

#134676

Overall Influence

1941 - 2022 (81 years)

Walter Estes Dellinger III was an American attorney and legal scholar who served as the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. He also led the appellate practice at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C., and the Harvard Law School's Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Clinic. He served as Acting United States Solicitor General under the administration of President Bill Clinton, from 1996 to 1997.

#2818

Tsann Ming Chu

#165821

Overall Influence

#2819

Paul Joan George Kapteyn

#114733

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

Paul Joan George Kapteyn is a Dutch judge. He was a member of the Council of State of the Netherlands from 1976 to 1990 and subsequently served as judge at the European Court of Justice from 1990 until 2000.

#2820

Thom de Graaf

#80493

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Thomas Carolus "Thom" de Graaf is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 party and jurist. He is the Vice-President of the Council of State since 1 November 2018. De Graaf attended the City Gymnasium Nijmegen from April 1969 until May 1975 and applied at the Radboud University Nijmegen in June 1975 majoring in Law obtaining a Bachelor of Laws degree in June 1977 and worked as a student researcher before graduating with a Master of Laws degree in July 1981. De Graaf served on the Municipal Council of Nijmegen from May 1978 until April 1979. De Graaf worked as a researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen and the Centre for Parliamentary History from July 1981 until September 1985.

#2821

Chris Wadlow

#166192

Overall Influence

Christopher Michael Wadlow is a British solicitor who is Professor of Law at the University of East Anglia. He qualified as a solicitor in 1981 and practised with Simmons & Simmons in London until joining the University of East Anglia full-time as a Reader in 2004. He was appointed to a Chair in 2008. As a Christ's College, Cambridge graduate in Natural Sciences his major specialisation in practice was patent litigation, often with an international dimension. In Norwich, Wadlow teaches intellectual property. His main research interests are in or closely related to intellectual property and hav...

#2822

Lorenzo Córdova Vianello

Lorenzo Córdova Vianello

#129323

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Lorenzo Córdova Vianello is a Mexican academic who was the Director of the Instituto Nacional Electoral. Career On 3 April 2014, the Chamber of Deputies elected Córdova as the presiding counselor of the National Electoral Institute, for a period of 9 years.

#2823

Shalanda Baker

#117727

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Shalanda Helen Baker is the current Director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the US Department of Energy in the Biden administration. She was also a professor of law, professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University.

#2824

Jonathan Nolan

#50396

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Jonathan Nolan is a British-American screenwriter, producer and director. He is the creator of the CBS science fiction series Person of Interest and of the HBO science-fiction/Western series Westworld .

#2825

Erica Ollmann Saphire

Erica Ollmann Saphire

#46855

Overall Influence

Erica Ollmann Saphire is an American structural biologist and immunologist and a professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology. Her research investigates the structural biology of viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever such as Ebola, Sudan, Marburg, Bundibugyo, and Lassa. She was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2008.

#2826

Greg Hunt

#76388

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Gregory Andrew Hunt is an Australian former politician who was the Minister for Health between January 2017 and May 2022. He was a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives between November 2001 and 2022, representing the Division of Flinders in Victoria. He has previously served as a parliamentary secretary in the Howard government , Minister for the Environment , Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science , and Minister for Sport .

#2827

Jeswald Salacuse

#167094

Overall Influence

Jeswald Salacuse is an American lawyer, currently the Henry J. Braker Professor at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and also the school's former Dean. He is featured in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the East and Who's Who in American Law, was a Distinguished Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary University of London from 1995-2003 and was awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Comparative Law at University of Trento in 2000. He also served as the Chairman of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration.

#2828

Walter Merricks

#114010

Overall Influence

Walter Hugh Merricks , who qualified as an English solicitor, has held a number of senior appointments in legal and public institutions, the best known being his tenure as the inaugural Chief Ombudsman of the Financial Ombudsman Service between 1999 and 2009. He was Chair of IMPRESS, the Independent Monitor for the Press, and the law reform charity JUSTICE. He was a member of the Civil Aviation Authority's consumer panel until 2023. As class representative, he has filed a £14 billion class action claim on behalf of British consumers against MasterCard Incorporated before the Competition Appeal...

#2829

Andrea Bezjak

#167178

Overall Influence

#2830

Dick D. F. Ettema

#167186

Overall Influence

#2831

Joanna Marszałek-Kawa

#76986

Overall Influence

Joanna Marszałek-Kawa is a Polish lawyer, political scientist, professor and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Biography Joanna Marszałek-Kawa is the Head of the Department of the Political System of the Republic of Poland at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She is also the Director of the Centre of Eastern Studies and the Vice President of Toruń branch of the Polish Association of Political Science. Marszałek-Kawa is the editor-in-chief of the journals: Polish Politica...

#2832

Mark E. Anderson

#167484

Overall Influence

#2833

Matthew J. Wilson

#122427

Overall Influence

Matthew J. Wilson is an American academic with an extensive global background, serving as the president and dean of Temple University, Japan Campus since 2000. Under Wilson's leadership, the Japan campus of Temple University in Tokyo experienced a 60% increase in its undergraduate student body from 2020 to 2023, rolled out new programs, and entered into host of collaborative relationships with governments and educational institutions. Wilson has spent nearly 10 years with Temple University. Between 2003-09, Wilson served as senior associate dean, general counsel, and law professor at Temple's Japan campus.

#2834

Peter Milliken

#85537

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Peter Andrew Stewart Milliken is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 until his retirement in 2011 and served as Speaker of the House for 10 years beginning in 2001. Milliken represented the Ontario riding of Kingston and the Islands as a member of the Liberal Party. On October 12, 2009, he became the longest serving Speaker of the House of Commons in Canadian history. His Speakership was notable for the number of tie-breaking votes he was required to make as well as for making several historic rulings. Milliken also has the unique distinction of being the first Speaker to preside over four Parliaments.

#2835

Jamie Hewlett

#35905

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Jamie Christopher Hewlett is an English comic book creator, illustrator, music video director, and songwriter. He is the co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl with Alan Martin and co-creator of the virtual band Gorillaz, alongside Blur frontman Damon Albarn.

#2836

Elliot Richardson

#94412

Overall Influence

1920 - 1999 (79 years)

Elliot Lee Richardson was an American lawyer and Republican politician. As a member of the cabinets of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1970 and 1977, Richardson is one of two men in United States history to hold four cabinet positions. As United States Attorney General, Richardson played a prominent role in the Watergate scandal when he led a mass resignation in protest against President Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. His resignation precipitated a crisis of confidence in Nixon which ultimately led to the president's resignation.

#2837

Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez

#54194

Overall Influence

1936 - 2012 (76 years)

Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez was a Mexican architect and industrial designer. His architectural works included urban planning projects, malls, bus stations, hotels, cinemas, sports facilities, schools, public, industrial and administration buildings, particularly in Mexico, but also in other countries.

#2838

Hannah McGlade

#44761

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Hannah McGlade CF is an Australian academic, human rights advocate and lawyer. She is a Kurin Minang Noongar woman of the Bibulman nation and is an associate professor at Curtin University's law school. She was appointed Senior Indigenous Fellow at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2016 and has been a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues since 2020.

#2839

David Koepp

#42676

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

David Koepp is an American screenwriter. He is the ninth most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts with a total gross of over $2.3 billion. Koepp has achieved both critical and commercial success in a wide variety of genres: thriller, science fiction, comedy, action, drama, crime, superhero, horror, adventure, and fantasy.

#2840

Kenny Griffis

#128234

Overall Influence

T. Kenneth Griffis Jr. is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi. He previously served as Presiding Judge on the Mississippi Court of Appeals. Education and early life Griffis attended Meridian Community College and Mississippi State University. He received his Bachelor of Accountancy and his Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi. He was a certified public accountant from 1984 through 2007. Griffis has taught as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, Mississippi College School of Law, Belhaven University and Meridian Community Co...

#2841

Richard H. Helmholz

#168116

Overall Influence

#2842

Cynthia Grant Bowman

#134896

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Cynthia Grant Bowman is an American legal scholar specializing in areas relating to law and women, including women in the legal profession, sexual harassment, and legal remedies for adult survivors of childhood sex abuse. She is the Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School .

#2843

Mary Sarah Bilder

Mary Sarah Bilder

#105708

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Mary Sarah Bilder is an American historian, and a winner of the 2016 Bancroft Prize. Life She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Harvard Law School, and Harvard University. She taught at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, and teaches at Boston College Law School.

#2844

Tony Prosser

#142591

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

James Anthony William Prosser , usually known as Tony Prosser, is professor of public law at the University of Bristol, having previously been John Millar Professor of Law, at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on legal aspects of regulation and privatisation.

#2845

Dan Peer

#137583

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Dan Peer is a Professor and the Director of the Laboratory of Precision NanoMedicine at Tel Aviv University . He is also the Vice President for Research and Development at TAU. In 2017 he co-founded and acts as the managing director of SPARK Tel Aviv, Center for Translational Medicine. From 2016–2020 he was the chair of the TAU Cancer Biology Research Center.

#2846

Ted Landsmark

#30247

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Theodore "Ted" Carlisle Landsmark is an American educator and lawyer. Landsmark is currently distinguished professor of public policy and urban affairs and director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. His research interests include diversity in design, environmental design, design education, higher education administration, community-based economic development, public policy, historic preservation, and African American art and artisanry.

#2847

José Antonio González i Casanova

#121491

Overall Influence

1935 - 2021 (86 years)

José Antonio González i Casanova was a Spanish lawyer, politician, constitutional law academic, and writer, known for being one of the drafters of the Constitution of Spain in 1978. Biography and career González was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1935. He studied at the local elite school "Jesuïtes Sarrià", where he met Alfonso Carlos Comín. Despite coming from a national Catholic family and having a military uncle who was shot for being part of the Civil War Nationalist cause, during Franco's regime González was part of the Popular Liberation Front, a left-wing, clandestine and anti-Francoist organization.

#2848

Evan H. Caminker

#133526

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Evan H. Caminker is a Dean Emeritus of the University of Michigan Law School. As Dean, he succeeded Jeffrey S. Lehman, who resigned to become president of Cornell University. Caminker was appointed Dean just as the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Law School's affirmative action admissions policies, which had been challenged in a lawsuit filed by the Center for Individual Rights.

#2849

Valentin Yudashkin

Valentin Yudashkin

#50659

Overall Influence

1963 - 2023 (60 years)

Valentin Abramovich Yudashkin was a Russian fashion designer. Career Yudashkin born in Moscow Oblast, Yudashkin came to prominence during the 1980s, dressing Raisa Gorbacheva. He is considered the first post-Soviet designer to have brought a contemporary Russian look to the international fashion world all the while having wowed critics with sumptuous theatricality as well as wearable styles.

#2850

Maria Kavallaris

#132338

Overall Influence

Maria Kavallaris is an Australian scientist, based at the University of New South Wales' Children's Cancer Institute, where she is best known for her contributions to the field of cancer research. On 25 January 2019, Kavallaris was appointed a member of the Order of Australia.

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