Orin Kerr
1971 - Present (51 years)
Orin Samuel Kerr is an American legal scholar and professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. He is known as a scholar in the subjects of computer crime law and internet surveillance. Kerr is one of the contributors to the law-oriented blog titled The Volokh Conspiracy.
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Adam Silver
1962 - Present (60 years)
Adam Silver is an American lawyer and sports executive who is the fifth and current commissioner of the National Basketball Association . He joined the NBA in 1992 and has held various positions within the league, becoming chief operating officer and deputy commissioner under his predecessor and mentor David Stern in 2006. When Stern retired in 2014, Silver was named the new commissioner.
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Abdulqawi Yusuf
1948 - Present (74 years)
Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf is a Somali lawyer and judge serving on the International Court of Justice since 2009. He served as the court's president from 2018 to 2021. Early life Yusuf was born in the northeastern town of Eyl, Puntland. He holds a Juris Doctor and holds a PhD in international law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva. Prior to his doctorate, Yusuf completed post-graduate studies in international law at the University of Florence in Italy.
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Mohamed ElBaradei
1942 - Present (80 years)
Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat who served as the vice president of Egypt on an interim basis from 14 July 2013 until his resignation on 14 August 2013. He was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency , an intergovernmental organization under the auspices of the United Nations, from 1997 to 2009. He and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way". El...
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Yochai Benkler
1964 - Present (58 years)
Areas of Specialization: Information Technology Law, Industrial Information Economy Yochai Benkler is co-director and faculty for the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, as well as the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He earned his LL.B from Tel Aviv University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. His research explores commons-based efforts such as Wikipedia, Creative Commons, MOOCs and open source applications to manage resources using networked environments. His book, The Wealth of Networks, published under a Creative Co...
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Harald Range
1948 - 2018 (70 years)
Harald Range was a German jurist and was Attorney General of Germany. Early life and career After completing his studies at the University of Göttingen Range began his career with the judiciary of Lower Saxony, serving as a judge from 1975–78, as a prosecutor from 1978–86 and as a senior prosecutor at the Higher Regional Court in Celle from 1986–89.
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Virginia Bell
1951 - Present (71 years)
Virginia Margaret Bell is a former senior puisne Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. She was sworn in on 3 February 2009, and retired on 28 February 2021.
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Christine Lagarde
1956 - Present (66 years)
Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French politician and lawyer who is the current president of the European Central Bank, a position she has held since 1 November 2019. Prior to this appointment and between July 2011 and September 2019, she was the managing director of the International Monetary Fund .
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Charles Fried
1935 - Present (87 years)
Charles Anthony Fried is an American jurist and lawyer. He served as United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. He is a professor at Harvard Law School and has been a visiting professor at Columbia Law School. He also serves on the board of the nonpartisan group, the Campaign Legal Center.
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Richard Revesz
1958 - Present (64 years)
Richard L. Revesz is the director of the American Law Institute and the Lawrence King Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. He served as the Dean of the New York University School of Law from 2002 to 2013. He is one of the nation's leading experts on environmental law, regulatory law, and policy.
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Antonio Carpio
1949 - Present (73 years)
Antonio Tirol Carpio is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was sworn in as member of the High Court by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on October 26, 2001, and served until his retirement on October 26, 2019. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines for a period of more than eight months.
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Harry Blackmun
1908 - 1999 (91 years)
Harry Andrew Blackmun was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 until 1994. Appointed by Republican President Richard Nixon, Blackmun ultimately became one of the most liberal justices on the Court. He is best known as the author of the Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade, which prohibits many state and federal restrictions on abortion.
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David Schizer
1968 - Present (54 years)
David M. Schizer is an American lawyer and academic. He was named the fourteenth Dean of Columbia Law School in 2004. He was appointed Dean at the age of 35, making him the youngest dean in the school's history. He served in this position until June 30, 2014. He went on to serve three years as the CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
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Anne-France Goldwater
1960 - Present (62 years)
Anne-France Goldwater is a Canadian lawyer and television personality, best known as the arbitrator on L'Arbitre, a court show which debuted on the V television network in 2011. Goldwater was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of lawyers Sam Goldwater and Ruth Zendel. She studied law at McGill Universitybefore being admitted to the Bar of Quebec.
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Franklin Drilon
1945 - Present (77 years)
Franklin "Frank" Magtunao Drilon is a Filipino politician serving as the Senate Minority Leader since 2017. Since 2010, he has been on his second stint in the Senate, first serving from 1995 to 2007. He served thrice as President of the Senate: in 2000, from 2001 to 2006, and from 2013 to 2016. Having served as Senate Majority Leader and Senate President pro tempore in the past, he is the only senator who has served in all four major leadership positions of the Senate. A member of the Liberal Party since 2003, he has been the party's vice-chairman since 2011 and has previously served as the p...
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Valerio Onida
1936 - Present (86 years)
Valerio Onida is an Italian jurist, and constitutional law professor, former Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy and President of the Court from September 2004 to January 2005. Biography Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Milan from 1983 to 2009, in January 1996, Onida was elected Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy by the Parliament. He remained in office for 9 years, until January 2005. In the last four months, Onida has also been President of the Constitutional Court.
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Robert Ellickson
1941 - Present (81 years)
Robert C. Ellickson is an American property law scholar. He is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law at Yale Law School, and was formerly on the faculty at the USC Gould School of Law and Stanford Law School. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a past president of the American Law and Economics Association. Ellickson is the author of numerous books and articles on land use, property, and social norms, and is best known for his 1991 book Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes. In that book, a study of ranchers and farmers in Shasta County...
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Nicola Lacey
1958 - Present (64 years)
Nicola Mary Lacey, is a British legal scholar who specialises in criminal law. Her research interests include criminal justice, criminal responsibility, and the political economy of punishment. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics . She was previously Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at LSE , and then Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford .
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Robert C. Clark
1944 - Present (78 years)
Robert C. Clark is Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and the Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School. He previously served as dean and professor of law at Harvard Law School from 1989 to 2003. Clark is recognized as a leading authority in corporate law and corporate governance.
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Steny Hoyer
1939 - Present (83 years)
Steny Hamilton Hoyer is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for since 1981 and as House Majority Leader since 2019. A Democrat, Hoyer was first elected in a special election on May 19, 1981. As of 2022, he is in his 20th term as a member of the House. The district includes a large swath of rural and suburban territory southeast of Washington, D.C. Hoyer is the dean of the Maryland congressional delegation and the most senior Democrat in the House.
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Jonathan Turley
1961 - Present (61 years)
Jonathan Turley is professor of law at the George Washington University’s Law School. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. before going on to earn a J.D. from Northwestern University. Turley is an expert in public interest law and an advocate for the constitutional rights and civil liberties of American citizens. Turley is a frequent publisher and commentator on legal issues. Law Dragon has ranked him among the nation’s top lawyers, top military lawyers, and most famous law professors, a testament to his ongoing impact on the legal profession. He has been a vocal and harsh ...
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Dias Toffoli
1967 - Present (55 years)
José Antonio Dias Toffoli is a Brazilian lawyer who has been a member of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil since 2009, nominated by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Toffoli was the president of the Supreme Federal Court for the 2018–20 term.
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Christopher A. Wray
1966 - Present (56 years)
Christopher Asher Wray is an American attorney who is the 8th and current Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation since 2017. From 2003 to 2005, Wray served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division in George W. Bush's administration. From 2005 to 2016, he was a litigation partner with the law firm King & Spalding.
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Philippe Kirsch
1947 - Present (75 years)
Philippe Kirsch, is a Canadian lawyer who served as a judge of the International Criminal Court from 2003 to 2009 and was the Court's first president. Biography Kirsch was born in Belgium in 1947 and arrived in Canada in 1961. Kirsch holds a Bachelor of Civil Law and an LL.M. degree from the Université de Montréal .
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Mary Ann Glendon
1938 - Present (84 years)
Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a former United States Ambassador to the Holy See. She teaches and writes on bioethics, comparative constitutional law, property, and human rights in international law. She is pro-life and "writes forcefully against the expansion of abortion rights."
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James Crawford
1948 - 2021 (73 years)
James Richard Crawford, AC, SC, FBA was an Australian academic and practitioner in the field of public international law. He was elected as Judge of the International Court of Justice for a full term of 9 years in November 2014 and took his seat on the court in February 2015. From 1990 to 1992 Crawford was Dean of the Sydney Law School where he was also the Challis Professor of International Law from 1986 to 1992. From 1992 to 2014, he was Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Law at Jesus College, Cambridge. He was formerly Director of the Lauter...
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Mike Florio
1965 - Present (57 years)
Mike Florio is an American sportswriter, radio host, and television commentator. He writes for Profootballtalk.com, which he created and owns. He also hosts the daily NFL talk show, PFT Live, on Peacock with Chris Simms.
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Seyran Ateş
1963 - Present (59 years)
Seyran Ateş is a German lawyer and Muslim feminist. She founded the Ibn Ruschd-Goethe mosque in 2017, as Germany's first liberal place of worship for Muslims. Ateş, a civil-rights activist, is best known for demanding equal rights for Muslim women and girls, views which have required her to have police protection.
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Peter Häberle
1934 - Present (88 years)
Peter Häberle is a German legal scholar, specialising in constitutional law. Biography Häberle is the son of Hugo Häberle, a medical doctor, and Ursula Häberle . Häberle studied law in Tübingen, Bonn, Freiburg im Breisgau and Montpellier. In 1961 he received his juris doctor under supervision of Konrad Hesse at the faculty of law, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. His thesis, titled "Die Wesensgehaltgarantie des Art. 19 Abs. 2 Grundgesetz", became both influential and controversial.
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Stephen M. Schwebel
1929 - Present (93 years)
Stephen Myron Schwebel , is an American jurist and international judge, counsel and arbitrator. He previously served as Judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal , as a member of the U.S. National Group at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, as President of the International Monetary Fund Administrative Tribunal , as President of the International Court of Justice , as Vice President of the International Court of Justice , and as Judge of the International Court of Justice . Prior to his tenure on the ICJ, Judge Schwebel served as Deputy Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State and as Assistant Legal Adviser to the U.S.
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Michelle Alexander
1967 - Present (55 years)
Michelle Alexander is an American writer and civil rights activist. She is best known for her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Since 2018, she has been an opinion columnist for The New York Times.
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Rosa Brooks
1970 - Present (52 years)
Rosa Brooks is an American law professor, journalist, author and commentator on foreign policy, U.S. politics and criminal justice. She is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. Brooks is also an adjunct scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. From April 2009 to July 2011, Brooks was a counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy.
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Peter Neufeld
1950 - Present (72 years)
Peter J. Neufeld is an American lawyer, cofounder, with Barry Scheck, of the Innocence Project, and a founding partner in the civil rights law firm Neufeld Scheck & Brustin. Starting from his earliest years as an attorney representing clients at New York's Legal Aid Society, and teaching trial advocacy at Fordham School of Law from 1988–1991, he has focused on civil rights and the intersection of science and criminal justice.
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William Deane
1931 - Present (91 years)
Sir William Patrick Deane is an Australian barrister and jurist who served as the 22nd Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1996 to 2001. He was previously a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1982 to 1995.
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Adrian Vermeule
1968 - Present (54 years)
Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule is an American legal scholar, currently a law professor at Harvard Law School. He founded the book review magazine The New Rambler. Early life and education Vermeule was born May 2, 1968, into a family of prominent scholars. His mother, Emily Vermeule, a classical scholar, was the Doris Zemurray Stone Professor at Harvard University. His father, Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, served for many years as Curator of the Classical Department at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. His sister, Blakey Vermeule, is a literary scholar and a Professor of English at Stanford...
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Prosper Weil
1926 - 2018 (92 years)
Prosper Weil , was a French lawyer, professor emeritus of Panthéon-Assas University's law school and, since 1999, a member of the Institut de France's Académie des sciences morales et politiques. Life Weil was born in Strasbourg. His doctoral thesis, titled Les conséquences de l’annulation d’un acte administratif pour excès de pouvoir, earned him the prix de thèse de la Faculté de droit de Paris.
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John Calvin Jeffries
1948 - Present (74 years)
John Calvin Jeffries, Jr. is a prominent law professor and was dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from 2001 to 2008. Biography Jeffries is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is best known for his work in criminal law, with his essays included in many major textbooks in the subject area. He is also a co-author of one of the foremost criminal law textbooks, Criminal Law with Professors Richard J. Bonnie, Anne M. Coughlin, and Peter W. Low. A scholar on constitutional law, federal courts, civil rights, civil ...
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Valery Zorkin
1943 - Present (79 years)
Valery Dmitrievich Zorkin is the first and the current Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Zorkin was born on 18 February 1943 in Konstantinovka, Oktyabrsky District in Primorsky Krai . In 1964, he matriculated from the Law Department of the Moscow University, in which he lectured until the late 1980s. He also lectured at the Ministry of USSR Internal Affairs, and became a professor. He became recognized as a leading specialist on the legal doctrines of Boris Chicherin. During the last two years of the Soviet Union's existence, he led a group of legal experts worki...
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Tommy Koh
1937 - Present (85 years)
Tommy Koh Thong Bee is a Singaporean lawyer, professor, diplomat, and author who served as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Singapore between 1968 and 1971. Early life and education Koh was born in Singapore on 12 November 1937. His father was from Tong'an, Fujian and his mother was from Shanghai. He attended from Serangoon Secondary School and Raffles Institution before graduating from the University of Malaya in Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws degree.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
1937 - Present (85 years)
Eleanor Holmes Norton is an American lawyer and politician serving as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives, representing the District of Columbia since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Go to Profile Gustavo André Muller Brigagão is a tax lawyer who specializes in indirect taxes and tax litigation. He is a senior partner at the law firm Ulhôa Canto. Brigagão was recognized by Chambers and Partners Latin America 2013 as one of the most individually admired lawyers in Brazil and has been mentioned in the publication since 2009. Ulhôa Canto, in which Gustavo Brigagão is one of the key partners, was appointed by the same publication as one of the country's leading tax law firms.
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Scott Pruitt
1968 - Present (54 years)
Edward Scott Pruitt is an American lawyer, lobbyist and Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma. He served as the fourteenth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from February 17, 2017, to July 9, 2018. He was nominated for the EPA position by President Donald Trump and was confirmed by the United States Senate to lead the EPA in a 52–46 vote. Pruitt rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.
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Peter Tomka
1956 - Present (66 years)
Peter Tomka is a Slovak judge of the International Court of Justice. Prior to his election to the ICJ in 2003, Tomka was a Slovak diplomat. Early life and education He was born in Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia. He earned LLM and PhD degrees from Charles University in Prague in 1979 and 1985 respectively. In addition, he has also undertaken studies at the Faculty of International Law and International Relations in Kiev, Ukraine, at the Institut du droit de la paix et du développement in Nice, France, at the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations in Thessaloniki, Gr...
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Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
1947 - Present (75 years)
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade is a Brazilian judge on the International Court of Justice, based in The Hague , Netherlands, a position he has held since 6 February 2009. Cançado Trindade is a professor at Utrecht University's Netherlands Institute of Human Rights . He was reelected to the Court in December 2017, and took office for his second term on 6 February 2018.
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Kathleen Sullivan
1955 - Present (67 years)
Kathleen Marie Sullivan is an American lawyer and name partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, a global, litigation-only law firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Based in the firm's New York City office, Sullivan chairs its national appellate practice group. She is the first and only female name partner at an Am Law 100 law firm. Previously, Sullivan served as dean of Stanford Law School, where she was the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law.
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Lee Bollinger
1946 - Present (76 years)
Areas of Specialization: Free Speech, Constitutional Law, Regulation, and Public Policy Lee Bollinger is Columbia University’s 19th president. He earned a B.S. in political science at the University of Oregon and his J.D. from Columbia University’s Law School. He is most noted for his scholarship regarding First Amendment and free speech issues, as well as being a defendant in two major U.S. Supreme Court cases involving affirmative action in higher education admissions. He has spent much of his career in higher education administration, with positions at the helm of the University of Michigan Law School, Dartmouth College, and Columbia University.
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Albie Sachs
1935 - Present (87 years)
Albert "Albie" Louis Sachs is a South African activist, lawyer, writer and a former judge appointed by Nelson Mandela to serve on the first Constitutional Court of South Africa. After twice being detained in South Africa for his anti-apartheid activities in the movement led by the African National Congress , in 1966 he went into exile in England. Later he lived in Mozambique, where on April 7, 1988 he was the victim of a car bombing executed by the South African security services. He lost his right arm and vision in one eye. In 1990 Sachs returned to South Africa to help write the Constitut...
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Jay Bybee
1953 - Present (69 years)
Jay Scott Bybee is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has published numerous articles in law journals and has taught as a Senior Fellow in Constitutional Law at William S. Boyd School of Law. His primary research interests are in constitutional and administrative law.
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Eric Posner
1965 - Present (57 years)
Areas of Specialization: International Law, Law and Economics, Contract Law Eric Posner is a professor of law at the University of Chicago’s Law School. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. His interests have included game theory, international law, foreign relations law, cost-benefit analysis, and national security privacy issues. He has defended the programs deployed by the National Security Agency to harvest unlimited information about citizen behavior and communications online and via telephone. He argues that American citizens...
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Mark Tushnet
1945 - Present (77 years)
Mark Victor Tushnet specializes in constitutional law and theory, including comparative constitutional law, and is currently the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Tushnet is identified with the critical legal studies movement.
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