Adrian A. S. Zuckerman is a British legal scholar. He is Professor of Civil Procedure at the University of Oxford and editor of the Civil Justice Quarterly Zuckerman is the author of Principles of Criminal Evidence , Justice in Crisis: Comparative Perspectives of Civil Procedure , and Zuckerman on Civil Procedure: Principles of Practice . He is co-author with Paul Roberts of Criminal Evidence , and co-editor with Ross Cranston of Reform of Civil Procedure: Essays on "Access to Justice" . He is also the author of the "Annual Survey of Civil Procedure," published each year in the All England Law...
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Kevin G. Welner
1963 - Present (61 years)
Kevin G. Welner is professor of education at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education, where he chairs the Educational Foundations Policy and Practice program area. He co-founded and is Director of the National Education Policy Center. He has authored or edited 11 books and more than 100 articles and book chapters concerning education policy and law.
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Tomoko Akane
1956 - Present (68 years)
Tomoko Akane is a Japanese jurist and a current judge at the International Criminal Court for Japan. Professional career After graduation from university she became a public prosecutor in 1982. During her career, she assumed posts at different levels of the justice system. She chose to become a public prosecutor due to the lack of opportunities the private sector provided for women and prosecutor since she wanted to be involved in serving justice to victims and criminals. Akane was the chief prosecutor of the Hakodate district in Hokkaido between 2010 and 2012, and was elected the public prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Japan in 2012.
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Kif Augustine-Adams
1964 - Present (60 years)
Kif Augustine-Adams is the Ivan Meitus Chair and professor of law at Brigham Young University 's J. Reuben Clark Law School. Adams has a bachelor's degree from BYU and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the BYU faculty in 1995, she practiced law in Washington, D.C. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of citizenship, immigration, gender, and race. She has published articles in both English and Spanish.
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Judith Mayhew Jonas
1948 - Present (76 years)
Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, is a New Zealand-born British solicitor, local government politician and academic. She has been the first woman to hold a number of public roles in the United Kingdom such as a two-year term as Provost of King's College, Cambridge and chair of the Royal Opera House.
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Eric Stover
1952 - Present (72 years)
Eric Stover is an American human rights researcher and advocate and faculty director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley. Career Stover officially began his human rights work as a researcher at Amnesty International in London, England, from 1977-1980. During this time, the organization won the Nobel Peace Prize for its “campaign against torture,” and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights. Following Amnesty International, Stover became the Director of the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Go to ProfileGabriel E. Eckstein is an Israeli-born lawyer and professor at the Texas A&M University School of Law. His work focuses on water and environmental law and policy at the local, national, and international spheres. He is particularly known for his work addressing laws, regulations, and policies for managing transboundary freshwater resources, and especially the international law of transboundary groundwater resources. From 2017 until 2022, Eckstein represented the Plurinational State of Bolivia in its case against Chile in the Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala, and appe...
Go to ProfileAbdul Tejan-Cole is a Sierra Leonean Oku legal practitioner and former Commissioner of Sierra Leone's Anti-Corruption Commission. He was awarded the 2001 Human Rights Watch award. Biography Tejan-Cole holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, a Master of Laws from University College London and a post-graduate diploma in International Trade Law from the European University Institute. He was awarded a Teaching Fellowship in Human Rights at Columbia University in New York, in addition to a Yale World Fellowship.
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Yoriko Kawaguchi
1941 - Present (83 years)
Yoriko Kawaguchi is a Japanese politician. Born in Tokyo, she holds a BA in international relations from the University of Tokyo, and an MPhil in economics from Yale University, where she became a member of President's Council on International Activities. Currently, she is a professor at the Meiji Institute for Global Affairs in Tokyo.
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Eerik-Juhan Truuväli
1938 - 2019 (81 years)
Eerik-Juhan Truuväli was an Estonian lawyer and professor of legal theory at the University of Tartu. From 1989 to 1993 he was the chairman of the Estonian National Electoral Committee. From 1993 to 2000 he was the Chancellor of Justice of Estonia.
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Lara Bazelon
1974 - Present (50 years)
Lara Bazelon is an American academic and journalist. She is a law professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law where she holds the Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy and directs the Criminal & Juvenile and Racial Justice Clinics. She is the former director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent in Los Angeles. Her clinical work as a law professor focuses on the exoneration of the wrongfully convicted.
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Bruce Ponder
1944 - Present (80 years)
Sir Bruce Anthony John Ponder FMedSci FAACR FRS FRCP is an English geneticist and cancer researcher. He is Emeritus Professor of Oncology at the University of Cambridge and former director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Cancer Centre.
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Alan Ball
1957 - Present (67 years)
Alan Erwin Ball is an American writer, director and producer. Ball wrote the screenplay for American Beauty, for which he earned an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He also created the series Six Feet Under and True Blood, works for which he earned an Emmy as well as awards from the Writers, Directors, and Producers Guilds of America. He was an executive producer on the Cinemax television series Banshee. He also wrote and directed the film Uncle Frank.
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Amanda Fosang
1950 - Present (74 years)
Amanda Jane Fosang is a biomedical researcher who has pioneered arthritis research in Australia. Career Fosang is a principal research fellow with the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia who has an established career researching arthritis and cartilage biology in health and disease. She is professor and group leader of arthritis research at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics. Fosang returned to Australia after completing her post-doctoral studies at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London, and was awarded an RD Wright Fellowship by the NHMRC in 1994.
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Du Gangjian
1956 - Present (68 years)
Du Gangjian is a Chinese legal scholar and a representative figure of New Confucianism in mainland China. Education and career Du Gangjian was born in Hefei, Anhui in 1956. He received his B.A degree from Anhui Normal University in 1979 and Master of Law degree from Renmin University of China Department of Law in 1982.
Go to ProfileUsha R. Rodrigues is an American legal scholar. She is the M.E. Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. Early life and education Rodrigues is a native of Potomac, Maryland. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Georgetown University, a Master of Arts in comparative literature from University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law.
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Jonathan Friedland
1960 - Present (64 years)
Professor Jonathan Samuel Friedland is a British physician and medical researcher who is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Infectious Diseases at St George's, University of London. Early life and education Jonathan Friedland is the son of Albert and Rosalind Friedland. He was educated at St Paul's School, London before going on to study medicine at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge and King's College Hospital. His junior medical training posts were at The Royal Brompton Hospital, The Royal Postgraduate Medical School and The John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Friedland c...
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Tim Griffin
1950 - Present (74 years)
Tim Griffin is an American writer, curator and former editor. He served as the director and chief curator of the Kitchen. He was editor-in-chief of Artforum from 2003 to 2010. Biography Griffin received his B.A. from Columbia University, summa cum laude, in 1992. At Columbia, he was a student of French philosopher and critic Sylvère Lotringer. He then received his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts of Bard College in 1999. He worked as a musician, playing trumpet in several ensembles, a theater producer and an art curator before entering journalism as the art editor at Time ...
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Pan Handian
1920 - 2019 (99 years)
Pan Handian , also known as Pan Zongxun , was a Chinese legal scholar, translator, and writer. He was recognized as a founder of comparative law in China. He served as Professor and Director of the Institute of Comparative Law at China University of Political Science and Law, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Comparative Law. He was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation by the Translators Association of China in 2012.
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Maria Rosa Virós i Galtier
1935 - 2010 (75 years)
Maria Rosa Virós i Galtier was a Spanish lawyer, PhD in Law from the University of Barcelona and Professor of Political Sciences and Administration at the Pompeu Fabra University. She was the first female Rector of a Catalan University. In 2004, she received the President Macià Medal, instituted in 1938 by the Government of the Generalitat in recognition of the dedication, perseverance and spirit of initiative in her professional career. She married José Antonio González Casanova.
Go to ProfileValerie Hans is the Charles F. Rechlin Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and the editor of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science. She is trained as a social scientist, and her major areas of study are the jury system, jury reform, and the application of social science to law.
Go to ProfileDavid M. Helfeld is the longest-serving dean of the University of Puerto Rico School of Law , he was a professor emeritus. He taught law until age 87. He also served as a close advisor to long-time UPR Chancellor and President Jaime Benítez.
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Robert Reed
1932 - 1992 (60 years)
Robert Reed was an American actor. He played Kenneth Preston on the legal drama The Defenders from 1961 to 1965 alongside E. G. Marshall, and is best known for his role as patriarch Mike Brady, opposite Florence Henderson's role as Carol Brady, on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, which aired from 1969 to 1974. He later reprised his role of Mike Brady on several of the reunion programs. In 1976, he earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his guest-starring role in a two-part episode of Medical Center and for his work on the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. The following year, Reed earned ...
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Pamela Hanrahan
1965 - Present (59 years)
Professor Pamela Hanrahan is Professor of Commercial Law and Regulation at the UNSW Business School in Sydney. She is an academic lawyer, author, and media commentator on corporate law and financial services regulation in Australia.
Go to ProfileHilal Elver is a member of the Academic Council of the UN Least Developed Countries and was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food from June 2, 2014, until May 1, 2020. She is also a research professor at University of California, Santa Barbara and a Global Distinguished Fellow at the Resnick Food Law and Policy Center UCLA Law School.
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Danièle Bourcier
1946 - Present (78 years)
Danièle Bourcier is a French lawyer and essayist, who has contributed to the emergence of a new discipline in France: Law, Computing and linguistics. She is director of research emeritus at CNRS, leads the "Law and Governance technologies" Department at the Centre for Administrative Science Research at the University Paris II, and is associate researcher at the March Bloch Centre in Berlin and at the IDT laboratory of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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Chantal J.M. Thomas
1971 - Present (53 years)
Chantal J.M. Thomas, Cornell Law Professor at Cornell Law School, directs the Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East and North Africa. Thomas teaches in the areas of Law and Development, Law and Globalization, and International Economic Law and is active in the areas of human rights and social justice, particularly in the Middle East.
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Michael Lavarch
1961 - Present (63 years)
Michael Hugh Lavarch AO is an Australian lawyer, educator and former politician. He was the Attorney-General for Australia between 1993 and 1996, and from 2004 to 2012 was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology , his alma mater, where he has been since then emeritus professor. he is co-chair, with Jackie Huggins, of the Eminent Panel for the Indigenous treaty process in Queensland.
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Patricia Birnie
1926 - 2013 (87 years)
Patricia Winifred Birnie was a British lawyer, and an internationally recognised expert on the law of the sea and the regulation of whaling. Personal life and education Birnie was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, and attended Queen Mary School. She studied jurisprudence at St Hilda's College, Oxford and became a barrister in 1952. She later gained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Her thesis title was "Development of the international regulation of whaling : its relation to the emerging law of conservation of marine mammals".
Go to ProfileChristopher Stone, an American criminal justice expert and Professor of Practice of Public Integrity at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He was the President of the Open Society Foundations from 2012–2017, the global philanthropies of George Soros. Prior to assuming that position in July 2012, he served as the Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2005–2012. While at Harvard University, Stone also served as the faculty chair of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management and as the faculty director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
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Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler is a Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. Her specialties are contract law and commercial law. Biography Marotta-Wurgler was born in Buenos Aires. She obtained a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, where she was departmental valedictorian, and a J.D. from the NYU School of Law in 2001, where she was Robert McKay Scholar and winner of the Daniel G. Collins Prize for Excellence in Contract Law.
Go to ProfileSarah Louise Joseph is an Australian human rights scholar. She is the Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University, a position she has held since 2005. Early life and education Joseph holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney, a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in Law from Monash University.
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Judith Sarmiento
1954 - Present (70 years)
Judith Sarmiento Granada is a Colombian lawyer and journalist known nationally for her work in various radio and television media since the 1970s. Biography Judith Sarmiento was born in Armenia, Colombia, on 20 January 1954, the daughter of Gilberto Sarmiento and Ofelia Granada.
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Michael D. Ramsey
1964 - Present (60 years)
Michael D. Ramsey is an American legal scholar. Ramsey studied history and economics at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1986 with a bachelor of arts degree. He then attended Stanford Law School. After completing his legal studies in 1989, Ramsey served as a law clerk for J. Clifford Wallace and Antonin Scalia. Ramsey is the Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. In 2021, he was appointed to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Go to ProfileAmanda R. Tyler is an American lawyer and executive. She is the executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit whose focus is defending religious freedom for all people. In addition, she serves as the co-host of the BJC's “Respecting Religion” Podcast series, alongside BJC General Counsel Holly Hollman. Tyler is the sixth executive director of the organization since its founding in 1936 and the first woman to hold the post.
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Walter F. Pratt
1946 - Present (78 years)
Walter Floyd Pratt Jr. was the Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he served as dean from 2006 to 2011. Pratt's research focus is legal history, contracts and commercial law.
Go to ProfileLucy Ann Dalglish is an American journalist, attorney, and professor and former dean at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Early life, education, and early career Dalglish was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to parents James and Joanne Speikers Dalglish. She graduated from Grand Forks Central High School in 1977 and enrolled at the University of North Dakota for her Bachelor of Arts degree. Upon graduating in 1980, she worked as a reporter and editor at the St. Paul Pioneer Press for 13 years during which she completed her master of studies in law at Yale University.
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Roger Park
1942 - Present (82 years)
Roger C. Park is a professor emeritus at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California, who specializes in evidence. He received his B.A. cum laude from Harvard University, spent two years in military service, including Vietnam, then received his J.D. magna cum laude in 1969 from Harvard Law School, where he was Case Editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, he served as law clerk for Judge Bailey Aldrich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and then practiced law for three years with a small civil rights firm in Boson. In 1973, he started teaching law at the University of Minnesota, where he became the Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law.
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Alice Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos
1917 - 2018 (101 years)
Alice Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos was a Greek lawyer and criminologist. Career Born Aliki Giotopoulou , the daughter of a lawyer, she served as Professor of Criminology, President of the Hellenic Society of Criminology, board member of the International Society of Criminology, lawyer at the Supreme Court, Vice President of the Bar Association of Athens, President of the Panteion University, President of the National Commission for Human Rights and as the 10th President of the International Alliance of Women . She was founder and President of the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights.
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Irus Braverman
1970 - Present (54 years)
Irus Braverman is a legal scholar and ethnographer, and is a professor of law and an adjunct professor of geography at the University at Buffalo . She was born in Jerusalem. Education and career Irus Braverman trained in law and criminology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In Israel, Braverman served as a public state prosecutor and as an environmental lawyer, before becoming a community organizer for environmental justice issues and a political activist.
Go to ProfilePeter Alldridge is a British legal scholar. He has been Drapers’ Professor of Law since 2003 and was Head of the Department of Law of Queen Mary University of London. He has a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London and a Master of Laws from University of Wales College of Cardiff.
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Mark R. Killenbeck
1948 - Present (76 years)
Mark Robert Killenbeck is an American legal scholar and historian who is the Wylie H. Davis Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. He earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Boston College and a JD and a PhD at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. After teaching literature at the University of Kansas, Killenbeck worked for thirteen years in central administrative positions for the University of Nebraska System. In 1988 he accepted a teaching position in law at the University of Nebraska. He was made Distinguished Professor at the University of Arkansas in 1999.
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Guy Bertrand
1938 - Present (86 years)
Guy Bertrand is a lawyer operating in Quebec City. He is a founding member of the Parti Québécois and ran in the PQ leadership election of 1985. He had been a Quebec sovereigntist of the pur et dur stream for most of his public life, before shifting to the opposite Quebec federalist ideology during the 1990s. He converted back to sovereigntism during the 2000s. He is also the author of Enough is enough! , where he criticizes the destructive and dishonest tactics of the Quebec separatist movement, but indicates continued support for their ideals.
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Joette Katz
1953 - Present (71 years)
Joette Katz is an American attorney who is a partner at the law firm, Shipman & Goodwin LLP . She was an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, where she also served as the administrative judge for the state appellate system, and as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families. In various roles during her career she has had an impact on issues of state and national importance, such as: criminal law, capital punishment, civil rights and the right to education, eminent domain, same-sex marriage, LGBTQ rights, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and ...
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Samuel Date-Bah
1943 - Present (81 years)
Samuel Kofi Date-Bah is an academic and a former Supreme Court Judge in Ghana and the Gambia. Early life and education Justice Professor Samuel Date-Bah was born on February 26, 1943, in Ghana. He entered Achimota School, in 1956, where he completed in 1962. He was admitted to the Law Faculty of the University of Ghana, Legon, in 1963, and graduated with an LL.B in 1965 and a Barrister at Law Diploma in 1966. He proceeded immediately to the Yale Law School, United States, from where he obtained a Master’s in Law in 1967 and a Ph.D. in law in 1969 from the London School of Economics, University of London.
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Frederick M. Bernthal
1943 - Present (81 years)
Frederick M. Bernthal was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs from 1988 to 1990. Biography Frederick M. Bernthal was born in Sheridan, Wyoming on January 10, 1943. He was educated at Valparaiso University, receiving a B.S. in chemistry in 1964. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory in 1964, and then did graduate research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1969. He then did postdoctoral research at Yale University in 1969-70.
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Fred D. Fagg III
1934 - 2002 (68 years)
Fred Dow Fagg III was the ninth dean of the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark, now Lewis and Clark Law School, in Portland, Oregon. Fagg, the son of former President of the University of Southern California Fred D. Fagg, Jr., joined the law school in 1970 and served as dean from 1973 to 1982. While he was Dean, the law school gained full accreditation by the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools. As a professor of law, Fagg taught Antitrust.
Go to ProfileBrent Evan Newton is an American legal scholar, the former deputy staff director at the United States Sentencing Commission, and a professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law and Georgetown University Law Center.
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Davison M. Douglas
1956 - Present (68 years)
Davison McDowell Douglas is an American historian and jurist. From 2009 to 2020, he served as dean of the oldest law school in the United States, William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he has served on the faculty since 1990.
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