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List of the most influential people in Law,

#3551

John R. Rosenberg

#72813

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

John R. Rosenberg is currently the Washington Irving Professor of Spanish and American Relations at Brigham Young University . Rosenberg holds bachelor's and master's degrees from BYU and master's and PhD degrees from Cornell University.

#3552

David Luff

#186221

Overall Influence

David Luff is a professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles, and visiting professor at the College of Europe, He is a partner in the international law firm Appleton Luff. He also teaches at the MGIMO University in Moscow and the University Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo. He has also held visiting appointments in Italy , India, China, Vietnam, and Switzerland.

#3553

Masao Ito

#18781

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

was a Japanese neuroscientist, and director of the Riken Brain Science Institute. Overviews Masao Ito was the main force behind Japanese neuroscience and its international recognition for many years. He was very active in the International Brain Research Organisation and went on to establish the Federation of Asian-Oceanian Neuroscience Societies in an effort to join together East Asian neuroscientists and facilitate interactions without dependence on American/European influences. This organisation is still active and acts in concert with IBRO's own Asia-Pacific Regional Committee which was set up in 1999.

#3554

Charles Repole

#188283

Overall Influence

Charles Repole is an American actor, theater director, and college professor. Repole made his Broadway debut in Very Good Eddie in 1975, earning a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award for his performance. Additional Broadway credits include the 1979 revival of Whoopee!, which garnered him a Drama Desk Award nomination, Doubles , and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , which he directed.

#3555

Oscar Holmes

#91556

Overall Influence

1916 - 2001 (85 years)

Oscar Wayman Holmes was an American naval aviator in World War II and civilian flight controller, the first African-American in each position. Biography Holmes graduated from Garnet High School in Charleston, West Virginia, in 1932, West Virginia State College in 1936 with a B.S. and Ohio State University the following year with a master's degree in chemistry. He taught chemistry for three years at Claflin College, a historically black school in Orangeburg, South Carolina. In 1940, he went to work for the Erie Lighting Company in Erie, Pennsylvania, as a chemical analyst.

#3556

Tucker Viemeister

#66968

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Tucker L. Viemeister is an American industrial designer, and founder of Viemeister Industries in New York. Tucker helped found many important design businesses: Smart Design, frog design's New York studio, Razorfish's physical design group, Springtime-USA, and was chief of the lab at the Rockwell Group.

#3557

Luz Bulnes

#184638

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Luz Bulnes Aldunate was a Chilean lawyer who was a member of the Constitutional Court.

#3558

Waldron Fox-Decent

#125739

Overall Influence

1937 - 2019 (82 years)

Rear-Admiral Norman Waldron "Wally" Fox-Decent was a Canadian professor, mediator and advisor on constitutional issues and labour relations. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1959 and a Master of Arts in 1971 from the University of Manitoba. From 1962 to 1995, he was professor of political studies at the University of Manitoba.

#3559

Lynda Grose

#100002

Overall Influence

Lynda Grose is a designer in fashion and sustainability, educator, and consultant known for her pioneering work in sustainable fashion design. Career In 1990 Grose co-founded Esprit's e-collection division, a five-year research and development project marketed in 13 countries, which is cited "as the first ecologically responsible clothing line developed by a major corporation" and in doing so, Grose "set pioneering standards for the textile industry". Her Ecollection was founded in response to Esprit's company-wide focus on environmental awareness, begun by Esprit co-founder Doug Tompkins. G...

#3560

Christine Lee

#63609

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Christine Lee is an English medical researcher. She is Emerita Professor of Haemophilia at the University of London, and founding Editor of Haemophilia. She trained in medicine at Somerville College, Oxford, where she was awarded First Class Honours and was the first female scholar of the Oxford University Medical School. She was awarded a Doctorate of Science by the University of London in 1996.

#3561

Gregg Polsky

#191952

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Gregg Polsky is an American lawyer currently the Francis Schackelford Professor of Taxation Law at University of Georgia.

#3562

Joe Odom

#178771

Overall Influence

1948 - 1991 (43 years)

Joseph Algerine Odom was an American attorney who later became a musician. He came to prominence after his appearance as one of the main characters in John Berendt's true-crime book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, although he died three years before its publication.

#3563

Amy Landers

#191983

Overall Influence

Amy L. Landers is an American lawyer, currently at Drexel University and formerly a Distinguished Professor at University of the Pacific.

#3564

Lothar Binding

#109935

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Lothar Binding is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany who served as a member of the Bundestag from the 1998 until 2021. Early life Binding was born in Sandershausen. After his apprenticeship as a heavy- current electrician he graduated Hesse College in 1972. Following his national civil service as a nurse's helper he studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen. In 1981 he obtained a Diplom degree in mathematics and physics at Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg.

#3565

Juanita Tamayo Lott

#142963

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Juanita Tamayo Lott is a Filipina-American author and activist. A chronicler of the Filipino experience in America, Lott has authored several popular and scholarly works on Asian Americans. She has also contributed to the establishment of several Asian American studies departments. As a college student in 1969, Lott co-founded the first U.S. Filipino American Studies Program at San Francisco State; in 2007, she developed the Filipino American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Trained as a statistician and demographer, she spent her career as a policy analyst for the...

#3566

Bernard Edelman

#83921

Overall Influence

1938 - 2020 (82 years)

Bernard Edelman was a French jurist, philosopher, and lawyer. Biography Edelman worked as a lawyer and was a specialist in literary and artistic property as well as copyright. He also served as a lecturer at the École normale supérieure, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and Sciences Po. His expertise in philosophy caused him to focus on simplicity and humanity, enabling him to meet intellectuals from many different countries. He published his first novel, Verticon, in 2017.

#3567

William A. Beeton Jr.

#191916

Overall Influence

1943 - 2002 (59 years)

William Arthur Beeton, Jr. was an American attorney and Republican politician. In 1981, he was elected alongside Charles R. Hawkins and Kenneth E. Calvert to the Virginia House of Delegates, but a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found the state's multi-member districts to violated the equal protection clause and ordered that new elections take place the following year. Beeton was defeated in the 1982 22nd district Republican primary by Joseph P. Crouch. He moved to northern Virginia, practiced law, and served as chairman of the board of directors of Wakefield Country Day School.

#3568

Anne Ormisson

#180217

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Anne Ormisson is an Estonian medical researcher and pediatrician. Biography Anne Tampere was born on 19 November 1942 in Tartu, Estonia and is the second child of a four-child family of Vanemuine orchestra player Arnold and a music school teacher Helene. She graduated school in 1961 from Tartu 7th Secondary School. She graduated University of Tartu in 1967 and was sent to Võru hospital as a paediatrician. She later moved to Viljandi where she met and married Toivo Ormisson, and her daughter Liis and a son Niil were born. In 1971, she started working as a researcher at the Department of Pediat...

#3569

Mirza Hashem Eshkevari

#133270

Overall Influence

Mirza Hashem Eshkevari was a Shi'a philosopher, jurist and mystic. He is one of the most important pupils of Agha Muhammad reza Qomshehi and his mystical school. Early life He was born in Eshkevar at Gilan. Eshkevar had given rise to scientists such as Qutb Al Din Eshkevari and Sayyed Abul Qasem Eshkevari. He was born there in 1250 Hijra lunar. His family lineage goes back to the regress of Sadat.

#3570

Barbara A. Bintliff

#192130

Overall Influence

Barbara A. Bintliff was the Joseph C. Hutcheson Professor and Director of the Tarlton Law Library/Jamail Center for Legal Research at University of Texas School of Law, and was previously the Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law and Director of the William A. Wise Law Library at University of Colorado.

#3571

Mary Berkheiser

#192145

Overall Influence

Mary E. Berkheiser is an American lawyer, currently the Joyce Mack Professor of Law at William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

#3572

Casey R. Luskin

#192163

Overall Influence

Casey Luskin (born February 9, 1978) is an American scientist and an attorney with graduate degrees in science and law. He holds a PhD in Geology from the University of Johannesburg where his thesis focused on paleomagnetism and the early plate tectonic history of South Africa (”Paleomagnetism of the Nsuze Group of the Pongola Supergroup and Related Igneous Units: Implications for Mesoarchean Paleogeography of the Kaapvaal Craton, Southern Africa“). His B.S. and M.S. degrees in Earth Sciences are from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He earned a law degree from the University of...

#3573

Jr. Attorney General Eric H. Holder

#192179

Overall Influence

#3574

María Leoba Castañeda Rivas

María Leoba Castañeda Rivas

#192184

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

María Leoba Castañeda Rivas, a tenured University Professor in the UNAM Faculty of Law, earned her Master's Degree studying Electoral Institutions and Procedures of the Federal Electoral Institute , now the National Electoral Institute , in Mexico. She also studied a Specialty at the University of Castilla-La Mancha . After this, She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree by the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos .

#3575

Steve Nickles

#167087

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Steve Nickles is an American lawyer and known figure in his field, currently the C. C. Hope Chair in Law and Management and previously the Bess and Walter Williams Distinguished Professor of Law, at Wake Forest University. He was also the Roger F. Noreen Chair in Law at University of Minnesota.

#3576

David Monacchi

#181687

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

David Monacchi is an Italian sound artist, researcher and eco-acoustic composer, best known for his multidisciplinary project Fragments of Extinction, patented periphonic device, the Eco-Acoustic Theatre, and award-winning music and sound-art installations.

#3577

Leo Fraser

#192102

Overall Influence

1926 - 2013 (87 years)

Leo W. Fraser, Jr. was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Fraser served in the United States Marine Corps 1944–1946. He then received his degree from Northeastern University and his law degree from the New England School of Law. He was a claim adjuster in Boston. In 1970 he moved to Pittsfield, New Hampshire, serving as the New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner. In 1976 he established Fraser Financial Services in Pittsfield. A Republican, he served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1985 to 1991 and then in the New Hampshire State Senate from 1991 to 2002.

#3578

Alexander Jun

#109355

Overall Influence

Alexander Jun is an American academic and Presbyterian official. He is a professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University, and former moderator of the Presbyterian Church in America. He was also the first-place winner of the 2020 Korean American ROAR Story Slam in Los Angeles, CA.

#3579

Peter Klinken

#120195

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Svend Peter Klinken is an Australian medical researcher and academic. He is currently the Chief Scientist of Western Australia. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in the June 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.

#3580

Samuel B. Kazman

#192276

Overall Influence

#3581

Kenneth Walsh

#117122

Overall Influence

Kenneth Walsh is an American medical researcher specializing in the study of cardiovascular medicine. He is a professor of medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He was formerly a professor at Tufts University. Along with Mark T. Nelson, he succeeded David Julius in 2021 as the co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal the Annual Review of Physiology.

#3582

G. I. Lieftinck

#174539

Overall Influence

1902 - 1994 (92 years)

Gerard Isaäc Lieftinck , known in print as G.I. Lieftinck, was a Dutch academic specialising in medieval European manuscripts. Personal life The eldest of two boys and three girls, Lieftinck was born in Amsterdam in 1902 to Gerard Lieftinck , an entrepreneur and director of the tobacco brokerage J.H. Lieftinck & Son, and his wife Elisabeth Esser . He married twice, had two sons, and died in Deventer in 1994.

#3583

Jens Edvin A. Skoghøy

#192331

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Jens Edvin A. Skoghøy is a Norwegian judge. He hails from Ringvassøya. He graduated as cand.jur. at the University of Oslo in 1976 and took the dr.juris degree at the University of Tromsø in 1990. He subsequently became a professor there, and has also worked as a lawyer. He was appointed Supreme Court Justice in 1998, as one of the youngest ever. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In early 2017 he resigned from the Supreme Court—the third to do so before the retirement age, after Oscar Christian Gundersen and Nina Frisak—to resume his professorship at the Universi...

#3584

Gladys Triveño

#137547

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Gladys Mónica Triveño Chan Jan is a Peruvian lawyer. She was Minister of Production, from 14 May 2012 until 24 February 2014. Biography She graduated of lawyer in the Pontificia Catholic University of the Peru in 1994 with a master's in Administration of Companies by the School of Businesses in Madrid, Spain. She also has a degree in Strategic Direction of Finances by the University of the Pacific.

#3585

Jacqueline Samuda

Jacqueline Samuda

#165606

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Jacqueline Samuda is a Canadian actress, director and writer. Biography Samuda was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and grew up in both the United States and Canada. She received a B.F.A. Degree in Performance from York University in Toronto, and apprenticed at the prestigious Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the Lake, Ontario. An experienced film/TV/stage/voice actress, Jacqueline has appeared in recurring roles on TV's Spooksville, The L Word and the epic sci-fi series Stargate SG-1 and in many other feature film, TV episodic and animation projects. She is a busy voiceover performer who has voiced many i...

#3586

Anne Brenon

#100753

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Annie Brenon, known as Anne Brenon is a French writer and historian, specialising in Catharism. She is the founder of Heresis, a review on Catharism and other medieval heresies and from 1982 to 1998 was director of the Centre national d'études cathares René-Nelli in Carcassonne.

#3587

Edin Velez

#114949

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Edin Velez is a Puerto Rican video artist, director and professor. He is best known for his work on the documentary films State of Rest and Motion and Dance of Darkness. Life and career Edin was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is currently based in New York. He studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. He moved to the US in the early 1970s and became part of the first generation of video artists working in SoHo, Manhattan. His directorial debut documentary film on Japanese Butoh, Dance of Darkness, was broadcast nationally in the US by PBS....

#3588

Ernst Marcus

1856 - 1928 (72 years)

Ernst Moses Marcus was a German lawyer and philosopher. He developed a theory of aether based on Immanuel Kant's posthumous work Opus Postumum, however sharply disagreeing with Erich Adickes interpretation. He used this to mount a criticism of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. He was a major influence on Salomo Friedlaender.

#3589

Albert Coates

1896 - 1989 (93 years)

Albert Coates was the founder and long-time director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. Coates earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina in 1918 and an LLB from Harvard University in 1923. Upon graduation, Coates joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Law and taught there until 1969. In 1932, Coates founded the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. He served as its director until 1962.

#3590

Joseph Benham

Joseph Benham was U.S. Attorney for the District of Ohio in 1823, son of Captain Robert Benham and born in Kentucky. In 1815, Joseph graduated from the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, its first graduation class.

#3591

Robert Ashley

1565 - 1641 (76 years)

Robert Ashley was an English lawyer and translator during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, and a Member of Parliament for Dorchester. Biography Ashley was the son of Anthony Ashley of Damerham, Hampshire, and Dorothy Lyte, daughter of John Lyte, Esq., of Lytes Cary of Somerset. He was the younger brother of Anthony Ashley, 1st Baronet of Wimborne St Giles, and the elder brother of Sir Francis Ashley of Dorchester.

#3592

Aron Densușianu

1837 - 1900 (63 years)

Aron Densușianu was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian critic, literary historian, folklorist and poet. He was born in Densuș, Hunedoara County, in the Transylvania region. His parents were the Romanian Orthodox priest Vizantie Pop and his wife Sofia . He was the brother of historian Nicolae Densușianu. From 1846 to 1848, he attended the normal school in Hațeg, followed by the Blaj gymnasium and the Sibiu legal academy . He made his poetry debut in 1860 in Foaie pentru minte, inimă și literatură and submitted poems, critical studies and political articles to the main Transylvanian periodicals of the time: Amicul școalei, Concordia, Federațiunea, Albina, Transilvania and Familia.

#3593

Thomas Heywood

1574 - 1641 (67 years)

Thomas Heywood was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. He is best known for his masterpiece A Woman Killed with Kindness, a domestic tragedy, which was first performed in 1603 at the Rose Theatre by the Worcester's Men company. He was a prolific writer, claiming to have had "an entire hand or at least a maine finger in two hundred and twenty plays", although only a fraction of his work has survived.

#3594

Robert Hamilton

1763 - 1831 (68 years)

Robert Hamilton FRSE was a Scottish advocate and close friend of Sir Walter Scott. Enjoying boat trips and other excursions together, Scott termed him Our Lord High Admiral Hamilton in his diaries. He is noted as a gourmand and suffered repeatedly from gout.

#3595

Thomas Francis Meagher

Thomas Francis Meagher

1823 - 1867 (44 years)

Thomas Francis Meagher was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. After being convicted of sedition, he was first sentenced to death, but received transportation for life to Van Diemen's Land in Australia.

#3596

Johann Oldendorp

Johann Oldendorp

1488 - 1567 (79 years)

Johann Oldendorp was a German jurist and reformer. Oldendorp was born in Hamburg. He was the son of a merchant and the nephew of the historian Albert Krantz, from whom he probably received his early education. In 1504, he attended the University of Rostock and later graduated from the university of Bologna, Italy, in 1515. In 1516, he was appointed Professor at Greifswald, where he served from 1517 as the Rector. He received his doctorate in 1520, and became a professor at the University of Frankfurt / Oder. In 1526 he moved to Rostock where he became a civic official: in 1534 he transferred to Lübeck and held a similar position.

#3597

Georges-Henri Bousquet

1900 - 1978 (78 years)

Georges-Henri Bousquet was a 20th-century French jurist, economist and Islamologist. He was a professor of law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Algiers where he was a specialist in the sociology of North Africa . He is also known for his translation work of the great Muslim authors, Al-Ghazali, a theologian who died in 1111 and Tunisian historian Ibn Khaldun . He was known as a polyglot, spoke several European languages and Eastern ones .

#3598

Erdmann Copernicus

1600 - 1573 (-27 years)

Erdmann Copernicus was a German poet, composer, and jurist mainly active in the Margraviate or Electorate of Brandenburg, a precursor to Prussia. Similar to the unrelated astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus , his name is documented in several partially Latinized variants: Erdmann/Erdmannus/Ertmannus/Erdmanus Kopernikus/Copernicus.

#3599

Jean Vendeville

1527 - 1592 (65 years)

Jean Vendeville was a law professor and a bishop of Tournai. Life Vendeville was possibly born in Lille, the son of Guillaume Vendeville and Marie Des Barbieux. He went to school in Menin, and from the age of fifteen in Paris, where he studied law, beginning a legal practice in Arras. In 1551 he married Anne Roelofs, of Leuven, and in 1553 he obtained a doctorate in laws from the University of Leuven. In 1562 he was appointed professor of law at the newly founded University of Douai. He was influential in rallying secular support for the first establishment of diocesan seminaries in the Low Countries, and for the establishment of a Jesuit college at Douai.

#3600

John Morton-Finney

1889 - 1998 (109 years)

John Morton-Finney was an American civil rights activist, lawyer, and educator who earned eleven academic degrees, including five law degrees. He spent most of his career as an educator and lawyer after serving from 1911 to 1914 in the U.S. Army as a member of the 24th Infantry Regiment, better known as the Buffalo soldiers, and with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. Morton-Finney taught languages at Fisk University in Tennessee and at Lincoln University in Missouri, before moving to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he taught in the Indianapolis Public Schools for forty-seven years.

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