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List of the most influential people in Law,

#3301

Jennifer Rothman

#110096

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Jennifer E. Rothman is an American legal scholar. Rothman was raised in Berkeley, California. After graduating from Princeton University in 1991, she attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and worked for Paramount Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment. After earning a J.D. degree from the UCLA School of Law, Rothman served as a law clerk for Marsha S. Berzon. She taught at Loyola Law School as William G. Coskran Professor of Law. In 2021, Rothman was appointed Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is an elec...

#3302

Janis Sarra

#180965

Overall Influence

Janis P. Sarra is a Canadian lawyer, currently the UBC Distinguished Professor of Law and founding Director of the Director of the National Centre for Business Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia , and also a published author. She was previously the UBC's Director of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, the university's Senator from 2003 to 2008, and also, until 2007, the Allard School of Law's Associate Dean.

#3303

Anthony Perkins

Anthony Perkins

#101603

Overall Influence

1932 - 1992 (60 years)

Anthony Perkins was an American actor, director, and singer. Perkins played the role of Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's suspense thriller Psycho, which made him an influential figure in pop culture and in horror films.

#3304

Kevin Thomas

#178024

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Kevin Thomas is an American attorney and politician from the state of New York. A Democrat, Thomas has represented the 6th district in the New York State Senate since 2019. In July 2023, he announced his candidacy in the 2024 election for New York's 4th congressional district.

#3305

Mike Schmidt

#94700

Overall Influence

Michael Schmidt is an American attorney and prosecutor. He has served as the Multnomah County District Attorney since August 2020. Originally set to begin his term on January 1, 2021, Governor Kate Brown appointed him to the job early, in August of 2020, to replace Rod Underhill, who retired in July.

#3306

Jonathan Crowe

#181438

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Jonathan George Crowe is an Australian legal philosopher. He is Head of School and Dean of the School of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland. Crowe is recognised internationally for his work on legal philosophy, ethics and public law. He is a proponent of natural law theory in jurisprudence and ethics. He is known in Australia for his advocacy on behalf of survivors of sexual violence.

#3307

Melanie L. Cradle

#170859

Overall Influence

Melanie L. Cradle is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court. Education Cradle earned her bachelor's degree from Adelphi University in 1993, and her Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1998.

#3308

Thaddeus B. Wakeman

#171521

Overall Influence

Thaddeus B. Wakeman, also known as T.B. Wakeman, was an American attorney, politician, editor and political philosopher. He graduated from Princeton University. Generally ascribed as a liberal freethought philosopher, he was a speaker at the 1878 Freethinkers' Convention at Watkins, New York. He served as president of the National Liberal League, ran unsuccessfully for Attorney General in the New York state election of 1887, and was editor of the liberal paper Man. He was also the head of the Liberal University of Oregon, later relocated to Kansas City, Missouri.

#3309

Chris Coleman

#145623

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Christopher B. Coleman is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 54th Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota between 2006 and 2018. He defeated incumbent mayor Randy Kelly in 2005 and took office on January 3, 2006. He was later succeeded by city councilman Melvin Carter on January 2, 2018.

#3310

Petr Pithart

#97473

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Petr Pithart is a Czech politician, lawyer and political scientist who served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 6 February 1990 to 2 July 1992. He was also the Senator for Chrudim from 1996 to 2012 and served as President of the Senate from 8 January 1996 to 16 December 1998 and again from 19 December 2000 to 15 December 2004.

#3311

Renée Dupuis

#177861

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Renée Dupuis is a Canadian lawyer and an independent member of the Senate of Canada. Dupuis specialized in Canadian administrative law, Human rights law, and Canadian Indigenous law. She was chosen for appointment to the Senate on November 2, 2016, by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

#3312

Debra Waters

#181278

Overall Influence

Debra Lynn Waters is a New Zealand exercise physiologist and medical researcher in the field of health ageing, director of Gerontology Research and professor at the University of Otago. Academic career With a BS and PhD, exercise physiologist Waters moved from the University of New Mexico, where she retains the role of adjunct professor, to the University of Otago in New Zealand in 2005. In December 2019 Waters was promoted to full professor at the University of Otago with effect from 1 February 2020.

#3313

Joseph Voyame

#174903

Overall Influence

1923 - 2010 (87 years)

Joseph Voyame was a Swiss jurist.

#3314

Marion Lewis

#75983

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (99 years)

Marion Jean Lewis is a Canadian medical researcher, known for her work on the Rh factor and on the Duffy antigen system. Career Lewis graduated from Winnipeg's Gordon Bell High School in 1943. She was trained as a medical technician at Winnipeg General Hospital. In 1944, the pediatric pathologist Bruce Chown, assisted by Lewis, opened the Rh Laboratory in Winnipeg to study and eradicate Rh disease. Their research led to effective treatments and a vaccine that prevents Rh disease.

#3315

Agustín Carbó

#166710

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Agustín Francisco Carbó Lugo is an energy and environmental lawyer and the President & CEO of ClimaTHINK Institute for Climate Law & Policy. Education He holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in civil and environmental engineering from Northeastern University, a juris doctor from Vermont Law School, and a master of environmental management from Yale University. Carbó is also a member of the Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity.

#3316

Jianguo Liu

#131999

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Jianguo Liu is a Chinese American ecologist and sustainability scientist specializing in the human-environment and sustainability studies. He is University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University.

#3317

K. S. Rangappa

#72918

Overall Influence

Kanchugarakoppal S. Rangappa, known as Prof. K. S. Rangappa, is an Indian academic who served as the Vice Chancellor of both University of Mysore and Karnataka State Open University. Presently he is serving as General President, Indian Science Congress Association.

#3318

Vicky Cameron

#179456

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Anne Victoria Cameron is a New Zealand medical researcher specialising in molecular endocrinology. Academic career Cameron was working as a scientific officer at the Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago, when she completed her PhD entitled The Role of Brain Hormones in the Regulation of Hypothalamic-Pituitary Secretion During Acute Haemorrhagic Stress in 1990. After a Fogarty Postdoctoral Research Fellowship-supported postdoc at the Salk Institute, in San Diego, she returned to Christchurch in 1993, rising to full professor.

#3319

José Augusto Delgado

#181855

Overall Influence

1938 - 2021 (83 years)

José Augusto Delgado was a Brazilian Justice. Family Delgado was born in São José do Campestre, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, the son of João Batista Delgado and Neuza Barbosa. He married Maria José Costa, and had three sons: Magnus Augusto, Federal Judge of Rio Grande do Norte, Liane Maria and Ângelo Augusto.

#3320

Mike White

#83271

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Michael Christopher White is an American writer, actor, and producer for television and film. He has won numerous awards, including the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for the 2000 film Chuck & Buck, which he wrote and starred in. He has written the screenplays for films such as School of Rock and has directed several films that he has written, such as Brad's Status . He was a co-creator, executive producer, writer, director, and actor on the HBO series Enlightened. White is also known for his appearances on reality television, competing on two seasons of The Amazing Race and later becoming a contestant and runner-up on Survivor: David vs.

#3321

Kenneth E. Scott

#128521

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Kenneth E. Scott was an American lawyer, having been the Ralph M. Parsons Professor Emeritus of Law and Business at Stanford Law School.

#3322

Susann-Annette Storm

#175857

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Susann-Annette Storm is a German attorney and lawyer. She was chancellor of the University of Mannheim from October 2001 to December 2016. Furthermore, Storm was chancellor and representative for all universities situated in Baden-Württemberg during 2005 to 2007. Previously she was a university advisor of the Ministry for Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg at which she was responsible for the universities in Mannheim and Karlsruhe.

#3323

Henk Bleker

#136765

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Hinderk "Henk" Bleker is a retired Dutch politician and jurist who served as State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation in the First Rutte cabinet from 14 October 2010 to 5 November 2012. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal , he previously was party chair from 20 June 2010 until 14 October 2010.

#3324

Fareda Banda

#174765

Overall Influence

Fareda Banda is a Zimbabwean academic. She is currently a professor of law at SOAS University of London. Biography Fareda Banda was born and raised in Zimbabwe. She studied law at the University of Zimbabwe, where she graduated among the top three. This led her to winning a Beit Fellowship to the University of Oxford, where she completed her doctorate on the topic of "access to justice for women". Upon completing her doctorate, Banda worked for the Law Commission of England of Wales before returning to Oxford as a post-doctoral researcher.

#3325

Osai Ojigho

#163612

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Osai Ojigho is a Nigerian human rights expert, lawyer and gender equality advocate, who is the Director of Amnesty International's national office in Nigeria. She serves on the Global Advisory Council of the Institute for African Women in Law and sits on the board of Alliances for Africa.

#3326

Aida Delgado-Colón

#136658

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Aida Milagros Delgado-Colón is a United States district judge for the District of Puerto Rico. Education and career Delgado-Colón was born in Lares, Puerto Rico. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Puerto Rico in 1977 and a Juris Doctor from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1980. She worked in the Department of Labor and Human Resources of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1980 to 1981 and then held various positions in the Office of the Public Defender of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico from 1982 to 1993. ...

#3327

Michael Coper

#178215

Overall Influence

1946 - 2019 (73 years)

Michael David Coper was an Australian legal academic, one of Australia's leading constitutional lawyers, author, and one of the founders of the law school at the University of New South Wales. Early years Coper attended Cranbrook from 1950 to 1963.

#3328

John Bates

#59088

Overall Influence

1938 - 2022 (84 years)

John Bates was an English fashion designer who, working as Jean Varon, was part of the boutique scene that blossomed in London in the 1960s. Biography Bates was born in Ponteland, Northumberland, on 11 January 1935. From 1951 to 1952, he worked as a trainee journalist and office assistant in London.

#3329

Bríd Ryan

#157729

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Bríd M. Ryan is an Irish biomedical scientist and cancer researcher. She was an investigator at the National Cancer Institute from 2013 to 2021. Early life and education Ryan grew up on a farm and dairy in Ireland. She has five sisters. Ryan always enjoyed science and decided she wanted to be a cancer researcher as a teenager. She completed her undergraduate training in biochemistry at University College Cork in 2001. Ryan received her Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from St. Vincent’s University Hospital and UCD School of Medicine and in 2005 was accepted into the National Cancer Institute Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program.

#3330

Jeff Wall

#176912

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Jeffrey Bryan Wall is an American attorney and former government official who served as the acting Solicitor General of the United States and the Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States during the Donald Trump administration. He is now a partner and head of Supreme Court and Appellate Practice at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Washington, DC.

#3331

David MacLennan

#95893

Overall Influence

1937 - 2020 (83 years)

David Herman MacLennan was a Canadian biochemist and geneticist known for his basic work on proteins that regulate calcium flux through the sarcoplasmic reticulum , thereby regulating muscle contraction and relaxation, and for his discoveries in the field of muscle diseases caused by genetic defects in calcium regulatory proteins.

#3332

Ryan White

#33927

Overall Influence

Ryan White is a documentary producer and director best known for his Netflix documentary film Pamela, a Love Story, Amazon Prime's Good Night Oppy, which won five Critics Choice Awards including Best Documentary and Best Director, and his Emmy-nominated Netflix series The Keepers. White's previous films include the HBO movie The Case Against 8, which won Sundance's Directing Award and was nominated for two Emmys, the documentary film Ask Dr. Ruth, and Coded, which was shortlisted for the Academy Award.

#3333

Srijit Mukherji

Srijit Mukherji

#63185

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Srijit Mukherji is an Indian film director and screenwriter who predominantly works in Bengali cinema. His regular collaboration with veteran actor Prosenjit Chatterjee brought him into the limelight. His first feature film Autograph , was a critical and commercial success, where he had written the script with Chatterjee in mind. His fifth film, Jaatishwar, won four national awards at India's 61st National Film Awards . He won the National Film Award for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay for his sixth film, Chotushkone, at India's 62nd National Film Awards. His eighth film, Rajkahini had been remade into a Hindi film titled, Begum Jaan, starring Vidya Balan in 2017.

#3334

Thomas H. Jackson

#186005

Overall Influence

#3335

Diamond Ashiagbor

#182031

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Diamond Ashiagbor is Professor of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent and author of several books. Life and work Ashiagbor earned her BA and MA at University of Oxford and her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She went on to receive a Postgraduate Diploma in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education at Oxford.

#3336

José A.F.O. Correia

#90748

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

José A.F.O. Correia , also known as José António Correia, is a Portuguese researcher, professor and engineer. Biography José A.F.O. Correia is a researcher in fatigue, structural integrity and fracture mechanics at the University of Porto of Porto, Portugal, since 2019. He is invited professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, since 2016. He is also guest teacher at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. In 2007, José A.F.O. Correia is graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro . In 2009, he obtained the Master Science in Civil Engineering in the Structural Mechanics area at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro .

#3337

Al Gillespie

#173164

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Alexander M. Gillespie is a New Zealand legal academic. He is currently pro vice-chancellor for research and professor of law, specialising in international law related to war, the environment and civil liberties, at the University of Waikato. He has served on international delegations including UNESCO, advised the New Zealand government on social issues and made a number of appearances before the Waitangi Tribunal. Gillespie frequently takes public positions on global conflict, climate change, refugees and environmental issues in the New Zealand media and has published seventeen books. He has...

#3338

William Adam Wilson

#176613

Overall Influence

1926 - 1994 (68 years)

William Adam Wilson FRSE was a Scottish lawyer who served as Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh. As an author he was known as W. A. Wilson and informally as Bill Wilson. The University of Edinburgh's W. A. Wilson Memorial Lecture, inaugurated in 1995, is named in his honour.

#3339

Jonathan Fisher

#152243

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Jonathan Fisher KC is a London barrister specialising in corporate and financial crime, proceeds of crime, and tax cases He is also a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. In July 2015 UWE Bristol awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws to Fisher in recognition of his outstanding legal expertise and academic contribution to the areas of financial and corporate law.

#3340

Roberto Cavalli

Roberto Cavalli

#92228

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Roberto Cavalli is an Italian fashion designer and inventor. He is known for exotic prints and for creating the sand-blasted look for jeans. The high-end Italian fashion house Roberto Cavalli sells luxury clothing, perfume and leather accessories. Former Acne Studios creative consultant Paul Surridge succeeded Peter Dundas as creative director for the brand in May 2017.

#3341

Albert Kiralfy

#138862

Overall Influence

1915 - 2001 (86 years)

Albert Kenneth Roland Kiralfy, FKC was a legal scholar. He was Professor of Law at King's College London from 1964 to 1981. Born in 1915, he studied law at King's College London from 1932 to 1935, when he graduated with an LLB; the following year, he was awarded the LLM degree, and remained at King's as an assistant lecturer until 1939. After serving in the Second World War, he returned to his former position at King's in 1947, and the following year became a full lecturer. He completed a doctorate in 1949, and was promoted to a readership in 1951 before becoming Professor of Law in 1964. He ...

#3342

Robert C. Hilliard

#180537

Overall Influence

Robert C. Hilliard is an American civil rights and personal injury attorney notable for his United States Supreme Court argument in Hernandez vs. Mesa seeking to hold a border patrol agent accountable for the cross border shooting of a Mexican national, Sergio Hernandez. He also was appointed and served as the nation's lead lawyer for personal injury victims in the General Motors ignition switch recalls litigation, one of the largest civil litigations in the country's history.

#3343

David A. Martin

#83429

Overall Influence

David A. Martin is an American lawyer currently the Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law Emeritus at University of Virginia School of Law after 36 years of teaching his interests involve are constitutional and international law and immigration and also previously a Department of Homeland Security advisor and is known as a significant figure in policy on refugees and immigration. He published an article in The Washington Post in 2012 regarding immigration policy. He made headlines in 2018 along with three colleagues for resigning from the Homeland Security Advisory Council...

#3344

Russell J. Weintraub

#149896

Overall Influence

1929 - 2012 (83 years)

Russell J. Weintraub was an American lawyer, formerly the Ben H. and Kitty King Powell Emeritus Chair in Business and Commercial Law Professor at University of Texas at Austin, and also a published author.

#3345

Alice Prochaska

#81104

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Alice Prochaska is a former archivist and librarian, who served as Pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford and Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 2010 to 2017. Career Alice Prochaska studied at Somerville College in the University of Oxford and received BA and DPhil degrees in Modern History.

#3346

Paul Schimmel

#98092

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Paul Schimmel is an American curator of contemporary art based in Los Angeles. Schimmel served as the chief curator of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , from 1990 until 2012, where he organized numerous exhibitions. From 2013 through 2017, he was a vice president and partner with the art gallery Hauser & Wirth and co-founder of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in Los Angeles. In late February 2017, Schimmel departed from the Hauser & Wirth enterprise, including Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in Los Angeles, with no public comment on his behalf.

#3347

Armando Marques Guedes

Armando Marques Guedes

#110365

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Armando Manuel de Barros Serra Marques Guedes is a political scientist, anthropologist and a former diplomat with expertise in international relations, political science, theory and philosophy, diplomacy, security and defence, and geopolitics. He is a professor of political science, law, and international politics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, as well as the professor responsible for geopolitics at the Instituto Universitário Militar, Instituto de Estudos Superiores Militares .

#3348

Poonam Salotra

#162408

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Poonam Salotra is an Indian scientist and researcher, appointed as Consultant at the ICMR-National Institute of Pathology whose work is centered on infectious diseases like Visceral Leishmaniasis , Anthrax, Tuberculosis and Cholera. Her research covers the development of diagnostic tests and attenuated vaccines, drug resistance and immune responses for patients with Leishmaniasis in some form.

#3349

Robert Schwemm

#186409

Overall Influence

Robert G. Schwemm is an American lawyer and currently the Ashland-Spears Distinguished Research Professor of Law and William L. Matthews, Jr. Professor of Law at the College of Law, University of Kentucky, and also a published author. From 1998-99, he was also the college's Acting Dean.

#3350

Clive Walker

#184508

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Clive Walker is a British legal scholar and Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice Studies at the School of Law, University of Leeds. Much of his academic work relates to Terrorism and the law. As well as publications, he has been appointed since 2011 as the Senior Special Adviser to the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation who advises the UK Home Office. Other publications and projects have considered Policing and police powers, Media law, Civil Liberties and Human Rights, and various aspects of Public Law.

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