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List of the most influential people in Law,

#3101

Burton A. Scott

#163010

Overall Influence

1935 - 2007 (72 years)

Burton A. Scott was an American attorney and judge. He was Chief Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals from 1983 to 1989, near the end of a 19-year judicial career in Wisconsin. Biography Scott was born in Hazel Green, Wisconsin, on February 16, 1935. He attended high school in Randolph, Wisconsin and served in the United States Army before graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin Law School.

#3102

Michael Lamb

#126019

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Michael Lamb is an American politician and attorney who has served as Controller of the City of Pittsburgh since 2008 and was most recently a candidate for auditor general. Early life and education In 1962, he was born to politician Thomas F. Lamb and Barbara Joyce. In high school, he was on the student council and was voted as most active. Lamb first attended Pennsylvania State University where during the 1984 presidential election he coordinated John Glenn's presidential campaign at the college level and eventually graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1984. Lamb earned a Juris Doctor from ...

#3103

Janet Cooper Alexander

#140908

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

For the English actress, see Janet Alexander. Janet Cooper Alexander is an American lawyer who is currently the Frederick I. Richman Professor of Law Emerita at Stanford Law School. Career Alexander graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with distinction from Swarthmore College in 1968. In 1973, she received a Master of Arts in English from Stanford University, and a Juris Doctor from the University California, Berkeley Law School in 1978. She then served as a law clerk to Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1978 to 1979...

#3104

Margaret Jane Radin

#142638

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Margaret Jane Radin is the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law, emerita, at the University of Michigan Law School by vocation, and a flutist by avocation. Radin has held law faculty positions at University of Toronto, University of Michigan, Stanford University, University of Southern California, and University of Oregon, and has been a faculty visitor at Harvard University, Princeton University, University of California at Berkeley, and New York University. Radin's best known scholarly work explores the basis and limits of property rights and contractual obligation. She has also contributed ...

#3105

Mark Lamos

#125066

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Mark Lamos is an American theatre and opera director, producer and actor. Under his direction, Hartford Stage won the 1989 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and he has been nominated for two other Tonys. For more than 15 seasons, he has been artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse. In May 2023, he announced he will leave the post in January 2024.

#3106

I. Beverly Lake Sr.

#124495

Overall Influence

1906 - 1996 (90 years)

Isaac Beverly Lake Sr. , was an American jurist, law professor at Wake Forest University and Campbell University, and politician. He was born in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Early career A graduate of Wake Forest College and Harvard Law School, Lake joined the staff of North Carolina Attorney General Harry McMullan in 1950. There, he drew upon his knowledge of public utility law to handle rate cases before the state Utilities Commission, which earned him a reputation as a consumer advocate. When the United States Supreme Court invited North Carolina to appear as amicus curiae in the famous Brown v.

#3107

Christine Kaddous

#178257

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Christine Kaddous is Professor of European Union law at the University of Geneva, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam and Director of the Centre d'études juridiques européennes – Centre d'excellence Jean Monnet of Geneva University. She is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe .

#3108

Jan Widacki

#154265

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Jan Stefan Widacki is a Polish lawyer, historian, essayist, academic , diplomat and politician. Life In 1969, Widacki graduated from law at the Jagiellonian University. He studied also philosophy. He is an author of over 10 books and numerous articles. He was a faculty member of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and the University of Silesia . He was a vice minister of interior in the Cabinet of Tadeusz Mazowiecki , Polish ambassador to Lithuania , and Member to the Sejm .

#3109

Janet Halley

#171555

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Janet Elizabeth Halley is an American legal scholar in the traditions of critical legal studies, legal realism and postmodernism. A self-described feminist, she is known for her critique of American feminism, dominance feminism, and left legalism, as well as her work on family law and the regulation of sexuality. She has also been a prominent voice in the public debate regarding sexual conduct codes on campuses in the United States in recent years, arguing against the broadening of the definition sexual assault and the adoption of the affirmative consent standard. She was the first expert on ...

#3110

Justice Sardar Ali Khan

#168837

Overall Influence

1930 - 2012 (82 years)

Justice Sardar Ali Khan was former Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh. He held various positions in judiciary. Early life He was born in Hyderabad State to Mohammed Amir Ali Khan, a subedar in Last Nizam's court. He topped the Madras University's Intermediate Examination in 1948. He obtained his BA and LL.B at Osmania University.

#3111

Indraneel Mittra

#93009

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Indraneel Mittra, MBBS, PhD. , FRCS , FASc, FNA is an Indian cancer surgeon, basic research scientist, and public health researcher. He is the Dr. Ernest Borges Chair in Translational Research and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai. He established the first dedicated multi-disciplinary Breast Unit in India – a model which has since been adopted by most centers in the country. He pioneered the discipline of clinical research in cancer in India and pursued the cause of improving cancer care in the developing world. In this context, and wit...

#3112

Calliope Spanou

#65858

Overall Influence

Calliope Spanou is a Greek academic who served from 2011 to 2015 as the Greek Ombudsman. She is currently a professor of administrative science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. On 23 April 2023, she was sworn in as Minister for the Interior in a caretaker capacity, tasked with overseeing the election due to be held on 21 May.

#3113

Debra Parkes

#176279

Overall Influence

Debra Parkes is a Canadian academic working as the professor of law and chair in feminist legal studies at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, a position she assumed on July 1, 2016. Education Parkes earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity Western University, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of British Columbia, and a Master of Laws from the Columbia Law School.

#3114

Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad

#75718

Overall Influence

1915 - 2002 (87 years)

Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad was a Syrian politician, lawyer, criminologist and professor. Background Hawmad was born to father Mahmoud Hawmad in Aleppo, where he was raised, in 1915. Before his entry into politics, Hawmad worked as a lawyer, specializing in criminology. He graduated from the University of Paris with a law doctorate and a degree in criminal justice. He also studied Arabic literature at the university. When he returned to Syria, Hawmad also worked as a professor at the University of Damascus.

#3115

Wendy Ponca

#90335

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Wendy Ponca is an Osage artist, educator, and fashion designer noted for her Native American fashion creations. From 1982 to 1993, she taught design and Fiber Arts courses at the Institute of American Indian Arts of Santa Fe and later taught at the University of Las Vegas. She won first place awards for her contemporary Native American fashion from the Santa Fe Indian Market each year between 1982 and 1987. Her artwork is on display at IAIA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philbrook Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian.

#3116

Patrick Boyer

#137973

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

J. Patrick Boyer is a Canadian journalist, author, and book publisher, was a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament from 1984 to 1993. He holds an honours degree in economics and political science from Carleton University, a Master's degree in Canadian history from University of Toronto and a Doctor of Laws degree, also from University of Toronto. Boyer studied French-Canadian literature at University of Montreal, and international law at the Academy of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

#3117

Kyndra Rotunda

#161481

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Kyndra Kaye Rotunda is an American lawyer, author, and former officer in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. She is a law professor at the Chapman University School of Law. Education She attended the University of Wyoming from 1992 to 1999, receiving a B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Wyoming College of Law.

#3118

Helen Irving

#103490

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Helen Irving is Professor Emerita at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Australia. Irving's research is in constitutional law, employing an historical perspective of the political and social context of Australian constitutional law and citizenship. Research interests include: Australian and comparative constitutional law, gender and constitutionalism, constitutional history and theory, constitutional citizenship.

#3119

Cephas Lumina

#93965

Overall Influence

Cephas Lumina is a Zambian lawyer and human rights expert. From 2008 to 2014 he was the "United Nations Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights", appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council. He was succeeded by the Argentine lawyer Juan Pablo Bohovslavsky.

#3120

Charles Arnold-Baker

#39242

Overall Influence

1918 - 2009 (91 years)

Charles Arnold-Baker, OBE was an English member of MI6, barrister and historian. He was the author of the Companion to British History. He was awarded an OBE and the King Haakon VII Medal of Freedom .

#3121

Dorothy Riggs Pitelka

#173798

Overall Influence

1920 - 1994 (74 years)

Dorothy Riggs Pitelka was an American zoologist, protistologist, cancer researcher, and pioneer in applications of electron microscopy to zoology and protistology, known for her 1963 book Electron-Microscopic Structure of Protozoa.

#3122

Jozef Moravčík

#109846

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Jozef Moravčík is a Slovak diplomat and political figure. He served as the prime minister of Slovakia from 16 March 1994 to 13 December 1994, and later as the Mayor of Bratislava. External links

#3123

Catherine Crump

#130634

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Catherine Crump is an American law professor and civil liberties expert focused on the effects of digital surveillance technology on privacy and free speech. She is the Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic, Co-Director of Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, and a Clinical Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Crump's expertise on digital data collection and the law is regularly featured in the media. In 2023, Crump served as a senior policy advisor for criminal justice for the White House Domestic Policy Council.

#3124

Michael Gordon

#82052

Overall Influence

1909 - 1993 (84 years)

Michael Gordon was an American stage actor and stage and film director. Life and career Gordon was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Jewish parents: Paul Luis Gordon , who was born in Lithuania, and Eva "Rachel" Kuhen , who was born in Russia. Michael was the second of three boys born to the Gordon family; first born was Bertram Ira Gordon , who was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, and the third born was Leo Allenby Gordon .

#3125

John Cartwright

#176805

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

John Cartwright is the Professor of the Law of Contract at the University of Oxford, a Student of Christ Church, and a qualified Solicitor. He sat Honour Moderations in Classics in 1978, but decided to become a lawyer and transferred courses, gaining a BA in Jurisprudence from the university in 1981. Afterwards, he read the BCL.

#3126

Thiago Amparo

#151656

Overall Influence

Thiago de Souza Amparo is a Brazilian lawyer, law and human rights scholar and professor, as well as journalist. He is a leading figure in public debate on diversity and inclusion in Brazil. He holds a master's degree and a PhD from Central European University. He is a weekly columnist for newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. Amparo is a member of the Brazilian Alliance of Jurists for Racial Equity.

#3127

Daniel Kelly

#141291

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Daniel Martin Kelly OBE FRSA is a British sociologist and the Royal College of Nursing Chair of Nursing Research at Cardiff University. He is known for his works on cancer and palliative care and received Order of the British Empire for his services to cancer care research and education. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2016.

#3128

Nadine El-Enany

#32071

Overall Influence

Nadine El-Enany is a writer and legal scholar. She is Professor of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent. She specializes in migration and refugee law, European Union law, protest and criminal law.

#3129

Isaac Mizrahi

#46220

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Isaac Mizrahi is an American fashion designer, actor, singer, television presenter and chief designer of the Isaac Mizrahi brand for Xcel Brands. Based in New York City, he is best known for his eponymous fashion lines. Mizrahi was previously a judge on Project Runway All Stars. In 2022 he played Amos Hart in the long-running Broadway revival of Chicago.

#3130

Donald S. Fredrickson

Donald S. Fredrickson

#54949

Overall Influence

1924 - 2002 (78 years)

Donald Sharp "Don" Fredrickson was an American medical researcher, principally of the lipid and cholesterol metabolism, and director of National Institutes of Health and subsequently the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

#3131

Derek Jinks

#132288

Overall Influence

Derek Jinks is an American lawyer, currently the Marrs McLean Professor at University of Texas School of Law and also previously the Charles H. Stockton Professor at Naval War College.

#3132

Herbert Lindinger

#21747

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Herbert Lindinger is an Austrian graphic artist, exhibition designer, industrial designer, and university professor. He is known for designing trains and trams such as the S-DT8.12 Stuttgart light rail cars, and the TW 6000 and TW 2000 for the city of Hanover, Germany, as well as the associated urban furniture and infrastructure. The logo of the University of Hannover, which evokes Leibniz's exploration of the binary number system, was also designed by Lindinger.

#3133

Ragnhild Hennum

#146951

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Ragnhild Helene Hennum is a Norwegian jurist, academic administrator and women's rights leader. She is Professor of Public Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law and Director of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. Hennum served as Pro-Rector of the University of Oslo, the university's second highest official, 2014–2017. She previously served as the university's Vice-Rector 2009–2014. Hennum's research fields are criminal law, criminal procedure and sociology of law, and she is a specialist on child sexual abuse, sexual violence in general and forced marriage. She is President of the ...

#3134

Janet Meik Wright

#126279

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Janet Leigh Meik Wright is an American legal scholar who has taught community property, estate planning and non-profit institutions at the University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of California, Davis.

#3135

Francisco J. Blanco

#179290

Overall Influence

Francisco José Blanco is a chemist working on structural biology at the Spanish National Research Council , in Madrid, Spain. His research utilizes Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy to characterize protein structure and interactions relevant in cancer. Early in his career he worked in protein folding, describing the formation of β-hairpin structures in short linear peptides. He has co-authored 121 scientific publications that have been cited over 5000 times, with an h-index of 39.

#3136

Kern Alexander

#179297

Overall Influence

#3137

Subodh Bhave

#119051

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Subodh Bhave is an Indian actor, writer, producer and director who is known for his work in Marathi cinema. He has acted in many commercially successful and critically acclaimed Marathi movies. He is best known for his work in Ani... Dr. Kashinath Ghanekar, Balgandharva, Katyar Kaljat Ghusali. He recently portrayed Vikrant Saranjame aka Gajendra Patil in Zee Marathi's Tula Pahate Re.

#3138

Hubert Kaufhold

#118588

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Hubert Kaufhold is a German legal scholar and judge, with special research interests in the languages and legal history of the Christian Orient. Education Kaufhold studied law at the University of Münster, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the University of Göttingen from 1962 to 1966. After passing his first state examination as a lawyer, he continued his study of the Philology of the Christian Orient, Semitic Studies, and Judaism at the University of Göttingen and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1966 to 1969. From 1969 to 1970 he was a research assistant at th...

#3139

Joseph Djogbenou

#148513

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Joseph Fifamè Djogbénou , is a Beninese politician, lawyer and academic who is the current President of the Progressive Union for Renewal party. Djogbénou was the President of the Constitutional Court of Benin from 7 June 2018 until his resignation on 12 July 2022. He was the personal lawyer of Patrice Talon. He was Minister of Justice between 2016 and 2018.

#3140

Line Gordon

#127616

Overall Influence

Line Gordon is a Swedish sustainability scientist whose transdisciplinary research combines food, water, and the benefits people receive from nature. Gordon is the director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and a professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. She is also on the board of the EAT foundation, and often participates in public discussions of food and climate in Sweden.

#3141

Gudrun Holgersen

#179347

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Gudrun Holgersen is a Norwegian legal scholar. She was born in Stavanger. She took her cand.jur. degree at the University of Oslo in 1975 and the dr.juris. degree at the University of Bergen in 1991. She then became appointed as law professor at the University of Bergen. She is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 2009.

#3142

Victoria Jamali

#176254

Overall Influence

Victoria Jamali, in Persian: ویکتوریا جمالی, is an environmental rights activist and expert in environment law from Iran. She was a founding member of the Women’s Society Against Environmental Pollution and founded the Iranian Society of Environmental Law.

#3143

Craig Iscoe

#154919

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Craig S. Iscoe is an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Education and career Iscoe earned his Bachelor of Arts from University of Texas in 1974, his Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1978 and his Master of Laws from Georgetown University Law Center in 1979.

#3144

Tobias Barrington Wolff

#155122

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Tobias Barrington Wolff is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he teaches classes on sexuality and the law, same sex marriage and human rights. He is known for his legal advocacy on same sex marriage and other LGBT-related issues, and served as the chief advisor and spokesperson on LGBT issues for Barack Obama throughout his 2007-08 presidential campaign. He is openly gay.

#3145

Tuen-Ho Yang

#171413

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Professor Tuen-Ho Yang is a Taiwanese jurist and former president of Fu Jen Catholic University and St. John's University . Since 2014, he serves as a member of Chairman of the Board of Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages.

#3146

Tim Minear

#86061

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Timothy P. Minear is an American screenwriter and director. He has been nominated for four Emmy Awards for his role as an executive producer on American Horror Story and Feud. Life and career Minear was born in New York City, grew up in Whittier, California, and studied film at California State University, Long Beach.

#3147

Zoe Lister-Jones

Zoe Lister-Jones

#108496

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Zoe Lister-Jones is an American actress and filmmaker who co-starred as Jen Collins Short in the CBS sitcom Life in Pieces from 2015 to 2019. She is also known for her roles in the television shows Delocated , Whitney , and New Girl . Lister-Jones made her directorial debut with the 2017 comedy-drama film Band Aid. In 2020, she wrote and directed the horror film The Craft: Legacy. She also co-wrote and co-directed the comedy-drama film How It Ends with Daryl Wein.

#3148

Claudia R. Binder

#41136

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Claudia R. Binder is a Swiss, Canadian and Colombian environmental scientist working in the field of human-environment systems and sustainability s. Since March 2016 she has been a full professor the La Mobilière Chair on Urban Ecology and Sustainable Living at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and founding director of the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems at School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering of EPFL. Since January 2020 she has been serving as dean of ENAC at EPFL.

#3149

Margot Horspool

#174878

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Margaretha "Margot" Horspool is a British academic specialising in the law of the European Union. She is Emeritus Professor of European and Comparative Law at the University of Surrey and Professorial Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. She has been a professor at the University of Notre Dame, London programme.

#3150

Wayne Mapp

#159388

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Wayne Daniel Mapp is a former New Zealand National Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for North Shore from 1996 to 2011. In the first term of the Fifth National Government, he served as Minister of Defence. Prior to his political career Mapp was in the New Zealand Territorial Army and worked as a lawyer and university lecturer.

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