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List of the most influential people in Law,

#3151

Kevin S. Bright

#96141

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Kevin S. Bright is an American television executive producer and director whose credits include Dream On and Friends. Early life Born to a Jewish-American family in New York City, Bright attended the East Side Hebrew Institute on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and graduated magna cum laude from Emerson College.

#3152

Paul Rabchenuk

#145398

Overall Influence

Paul Thomas Rabchenuk is an American attorney, town administrator, university professor and recognized genocide scholar in the United States and Canada. Rabchenuk has served as urban renewal director of Nashua, New Hampshire and Haverhill, Massachusetts, town administrator of North Reading, Massachusetts, Town Manager of Saugus, Massachusetts

#3153

Lisa A. Carey

#74043

Overall Influence

Lisa A. Carey is a Distinguished Professor in Breast Cancer Research at UNC School of Medicine, Division Chief of Hematology and Oncology, and physician-in-chief of the N.C. Cancer Hospital, UNC Lineberger's clinical home. She studied at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and was named co-chair of the Alliance National Cooperative Group Breast Committee in 2016.

#3154

David D. Friedman

#179978

Overall Influence

#3155

Michael Veale

#153479

Overall Influence

Michael Veale is a technology policy academic who focuses on information technology and the law. He is currently associate professor in the Faculty of Laws at University College London . Education Veale holds a PhD in the application of law and policy to the social challenges of machine learning from UCL, a BSc in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics and a MSc in Sustainability, Science and Policy from Maastricht University.

#3156

Richard Sapper

#6493

Overall Influence

1932 - 2015 (83 years)

Richard Sapper was a German industrial designer who was based in Milan, Italy for much of his career. He is considered one of the most influential designers of his generation. His products typically feature a combination of technical innovation, simplicity of form, and an element of wit and surprise. He received numerous international design awards, including 11 Compasso d'Oro awards and the Raymond Loewy Foundation's . Examples of his work are held in many museums around the world, including the Victoria and Albert and Design Museum in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the ADI Design Mu...

#3157

Peter Colman

#48361

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Peter Malcolm Colman is the head of the structural biology division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. Education Colman was educated at the University of Adelaide, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1966 and a PhD in 1969 for research on the chemical structure of parabanic acid complexes supervised by Harry Medlin.

#3158

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

#77059

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, also written Bruni-Tedeschi , is an Italian-French actress, screenwriter and film director. Her 2013 film, A Castle in Italy, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

#3159

Akira Ito

#180036

Overall Influence

#3160

Melissa L. Saunders

#172467

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Melissa Rutledge Lamb Saunders is an American legal scholar who served as a Professor at University of North Carolina Law School, where she taught civil procedure, civil rights and constitutional law from 1993 to 2012. Her research interests include mental health law and regulation. Since 2015, she has practiced as a clinical social worker at the University of North Carolina psychological counseling service.

#3161

Jeanne Moreau

#80586

Overall Influence

1928 - 2017 (89 years)

Jeanne Moreau was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. Moreau began playing small roles in films in 1949, later achieving prominence with starring roles in Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows , Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte , and François Truffaut's Jules et Jim . Most prolific during the 1960s, Moreau continued to appear in films into her 80s. Orson Welles called her "the greatest actress in the world".

#3162

Nitzan Rosenfeld

#176629

Overall Influence

Nitzan Rosenfeld is a professor of Cancer Diagnostics at the University of Cambridge. He is a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and co-founder of Inivata, a clinical cancer genomics company.

#3163

Sophia Moreau

#142617

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Sophia Moreau is a Canadian philosopher and Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is known for her works on inequality and discrimination. Books Faces of Inequality: A Theory of Wrongful Discrimination, Oxford University Press 2020

#3164

Shanta Dutta

#69613

Overall Influence

Shanta Dutta is an Indian medical researcher on Gastrointestinal diseases and currently the director of ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases . She has over 29 years of research experience on infectious Diseases and topics of her research interest include prevention and control of acute and chronic diarrheal diseases, Antimicrobial resistance, Disease pathogenesis, Developing point of care diagnostics, enteric vaccines and alternative therapy. She has been elected as a Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology ; National Academy of Sciences, India , and Fellow...

#3165

Terrence Blackburn

#117115

Overall Influence

Terence Blackburn is an American jurist and academic. He has served as dean of the MSU College of Law and Whitehead School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University.

#3166

Eckart Brödermann

#176368

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Eckart Brödermann is an internationally active German legal scholar, specialist in international business law, arbitrator and author. He is a professor at the University of Hamburg. Selected publications

#3167

Mirtha Vásquez

#121767

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Mirtha Esther Vásquez Chuquilín is a Peruvian attorney and politician who served as prime minister of Peru from 6 October 2021 to 31 January 2022. Previously, she briefly served in Congress for the complementary term between March 2020 and July 2021, representing the constituency of Cajamarca as an independent within the Broad Front parliamentary caucus.

#3168

Angela Onwuachi-Willig

#173372

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Angela Onwuachi-Willig is an American legal scholar. She is dean and professor of law at Boston University School of Law and an expert in critical race theory, employment discrimination, and family law. She took the position in August 2018, having previously been the Chancellor's Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

#3169

John C. Milhiser

John C. Milhiser

#132931

Overall Influence

John C. Milhiser is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois from 2018 to 2021. Prior to becoming a U.S. Attorney, Milhiser was the Sangamon County State's Attorney. In January 2022, Milhiser announced he would seek the Republican nomination for Illinois Secretary of State in the 2022 election.

#3170

Robin Day

#35502

Overall Influence

1915 - 2010 (95 years)

Robin Day, OBE, RDI, FCSD was one of the most significant British furniture designers of the 20th century, enjoying a long career spanning seven decades. An accomplished industrial and interior designer, he was also active in the fields of graphics and exhibitions.

#3171

Genevra Richardson

#142053

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Genevra Mercy Richardson, is a British legal scholar, specialising in public and administrative law. From 2005 to 2017, she was Professor of Law at King's College, London. She has served as Vice President of the British Academy since 2016. She previously taught and researched at the University of Oxford, the University of East Anglia, and Queen Mary, University of London, where she was Dean of its Faculty of Law.

#3172

Susan Tully

#90714

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Susan Tully is an English actress, television producer, and television director. Her most prominent television acting roles were those of rebellious teenager Suzanne Ross in Grange Hill and single mother Michelle Fowler in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Tully played one of the original EastEnders characters, appearing in the first episode on 19 February 1985 and remaining central to the series until 1995.

#3173

Ahmed White

#176202

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Ahmed White is the Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. His scholarship centers on the intersection of labor and criminal law and on the concept of rule of law. He has written numerous academic articles and two books, The Last Great Strike, which details the history of the 1937 Little Steel Strike, and Under the Iron Heel, which is the first comprehensive account of the campaign of legal repression and vigilantism that effectively destroyed the Industrial Workers of the World.

#3174

Lyndel V. Prott

#144355

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Lyndel Vivien Prott is a legal academic who specialises in cultural heritage law both within Australia and internationally. As of 2020 she is an honorary professor in the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

#3175

Aaron Mike Oquaye

#102597

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Aaron Mike Oquaye is a Ghanaian barrister and politician who served as the sixth Speaker of Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana from 2017 to 2021. An academic, diplomat and Baptist minister, he previously held the cabinet ministerial portfolios for energy and communication and was also the High Commissioner of Ghana to India in the Kufuor administration.

#3176

John Devereux

#175207

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

John Anthony Devereux is a professor of law at the University of Queensland. Devereux's primary area of research and teaching is in the area of Torts. He has a special interest in Medical Law. He has been awarded over $1 million dollars in research funding.https://law.uq.edu.au/profile/1056/john-devereux

#3177

Maleiha Malik

#171370

Overall Influence

Maleiha Malik is a professor of law at King’s College London , lecturing in jurisprudence and legal theory, discrimination law and European law; she is also an attorney, and a member of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.

#3178

Brandon Garrett

#180714

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Brandon L. Garrett is the L. Neil Williams, Jr. Professor of Law and director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke University School of Law, where he has taught since 2018. He was previously the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs and Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.

#3179

Kazuhiko Yamamoto

#180802

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

#3180

Francisca Mutapi

#88691

Overall Influence

Francisca Mutapi is a Professor in Global Health Infection and Immunity, co-Director of the Global Health Academy at the University of Edinburgh, and Deputy Director of the National Institute for Health Research Global Health Research Unit Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa. She is the first black woman known to have been awarded a professorship by the University of Edinburgh.

#3181

Teresa Godwin Phelps

#118254

Overall Influence

Teresa Godwin Phelps is an American author and professor of law. She taught at the University of Notre Dame Law School from 1980 until 2006. She also taught at American University's Washington College of Law where she was the Director of the Legal Rhetoric Program from 2006 until she retired in 2019. Phelps is the author of several books and over 30 articles.

#3182

Lisa Fairfax

#168992

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Lisa M. Fairfax is an American legal scholar who is a Presidential Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She was previously Alexander Hamilton Professor of Business Law at the George Washington University Law School.

#3183

Rosalinde Hurley

#92450

Overall Influence

1929 - 2004 (75 years)

Dame Rosalinde Hurley, DBE, FRCPath, FRCOG , was a British physician, microbiologist, pathologist, public health and medical administrator, ethicist and barrister. She was knighted in 1988 for her services to medicine and public health.

#3184

Vernon Jordan

#134187

Overall Influence

1935 - 2021 (86 years)

Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. was an American business executive and civil rights attorney who worked for various civil rights movement organizations before becoming a close advisor to President Bill Clinton.

#3185

Donald J. Weidner

Donald J. Weidner

#180049

Overall Influence

Donald J. Weidner is Dean Emeritus and Alumni Centennial Professor at Florida State University College of Law. He served as dean from 1991 to 2016 and was one of the longest sitting law school deans in the U.S. He received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. Dean Weidner is a leading scholar on partnerships, limited liability companies and fiduciary duties. In 2011, he was named one of nine Transformative Law Deans of the Last Decade by The Leiter Report.

#3186

Bernard Miles

#71395

Overall Influence

1907 - 1991 (84 years)

Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles, CBE was an English character actor, writer and director. He opened the Mermaid Theatre in London in 1959, the first new theatre that opened in the City of London since the 17th century.

#3187

Pamela Scott Washington

#178740

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Pamela Scott Washington is an American judge. She was the first black woman and second black jurist to sit on the bench in Alaska. Personal life Washington was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and spent some time as a child in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1975, when she was in the 8th grade, her stepfather moved the family to Anchorage, Alaska. She attended Clark Middle School for one year. The family then moved to Eagle River, Anchorage. She was graduated from Chugiak High School in Chugiak, Alaska in 1980. She was the only black girl in her class.

#3188

Camille Paulus

#151441

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Camille Paulus is a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician. Education He graduated with a doctorate in law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1966. Career He succeeded Frans Van den Eynde as the mayor of Aartselaar in 1989. Paulus was a Law Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, mayor of Aartselaar, and President of the Liberaal Vlaams Verbond . He was governor of the Belgian province of Antwerp from 1 October 1993 until 30 April 2008.

#3189

Mitchell D. Silber

Mitchell D. Silber

#92187

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Mitchell Darrow Silber is the executive director of the Community Security Initiative, a partnership between the UJA-Federation of New York and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York , funded by The Paul E. Singer Foundation, Carolyn and Marc Rowan, and several other foundations, to help secure local Jewish institutions in the New York region. He is a professional global political risk, intelligence and security analyst and the former director of intelligence analysis at the New York City Police Department . He is a regular commentator on political risk and terrorism related issu...

#3190

Marshall Criser

#121331

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

Marshall McAllister Criser, Jr. is an American corporate lawyer and former university administrator. Criser is a native of New Jersey, and earned his bachelor's and law degrees before becoming a practicing attorney. He was the eighth president of the University of Florida, serving from 1984 to 1989.

#3191

David Price

#92794

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

David Eugene Price is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for from 1997 to 2023, previously holding the position from 1987 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented a district covering much of the heart of the Triangle, including all of Orange County and parts of Wake and Durham counties. It included most of Raleigh, parts of Durham, and all of Cary and Chapel Hill. Price was the dean of North Carolina's delegation to the House of Representatives. He had announced that he would retire from Congress in 2022.

#3192

Nicolas Petit

#177188

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Nicolas Petit is a French Belgian academic specializing in competition policy, economic regulation, law and technology. He is Joint Chair in Competition Law at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, in the Department of Law and at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies.

#3193

Maurizio Del Poeta

#172292

Overall Influence

Maurizio Del Poeta is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine. His research focuses on novel anti-fungal drug discovery and lipid-mediated fungal pathogenesis.

#3194

Victor Jih

#82360

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

#3195

Minoti Apte

#104213

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Minoti Vivek Apte is an Indian-born Australian pancreatology researcher and is the Director of Pancreatic Research Group at the University of South Wales and Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia. She is also a classical Indian dancer and choreographer. Apte is notable for her many achievements in the field of pancreatic disease research, including becoming the first in the world to successfully isolate pancreatic stellate cells , the cells associated with pancreatic fibrogenesis. The effectiveness of this isolation method allowed her team to ...

#3196

Deng Hongkui

#116366

Overall Influence

Deng Hongkui is a Chinese immunologist and stem cell researcher. He is a Changjiang Professor, the Boya Chair Professor, and Director of the Institute of Stem Cell Research at Peking University. He was awarded US$1.9 million by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for his research on vaccines for HIV and hepatitis C. In 2017, he and Chen Hu engineered resistance to HIV in mice using CRISPR gene editing, and for the first time used the technique on an AIDS patient.

#3197

John L. Wallace

#62493

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

John L. Wallace is a medical scientist and was the founder of the Inflammation Research Network at The University of Calgary and inaugural director of the Farncombe Institute at McMaster University. In November 2013, he became the tenth recipient of the Heymans Foundation Memorial Medal. Since its inauguration in 1972, the Medal had been awarded twelve times; six of the recipients are Nobel Laureates. Wallace is also the 2009 recipient of the Premier's Summit Award in Innovation, Canada's largest value research award aimed at supporting the work of an individual scientist.

#3198

Sergio Marchionne

Sergio Marchionne

#89964

Overall Influence

1952 - 2018 (66 years)

Sergio Marchionne was an Italian-Canadian businessman, widely known for his turnarounds of the automakers Fiat and Chrysler, his business acumen and his outspoken and often frank approach, especially when dealing with unpalatable issues related to his companies and the automotive industry.

#3199

Edward Kleinbard

#173380

Overall Influence

1951 - 2020 (69 years)

Edward David Kleinbard was an American lawyer, tax academic, and Ivadelle and Theodore Johnson Professor of Law and Business at USC Gould School of Law. Born in Manhattan, he died of cancer in 2020 at Los Angeles.

#3200

Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood

#71205

Overall Influence

1941 - 2022 (81 years)

Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood was an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. In 2022, Sky Arts ranked her the 4th most influential artist in Britain of the last 50 years.

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