1. Harrison Tweed (1885)

American Legal Scholar

Prominent New York city lawyer and civic leader of the 40s and 50s. He was the president of the American Law Institute and the chairman of the American Bar Association.

2. Barry Scheck (1949)

American Legal Scholar

Best known as one of the criminal defense attorneys for football star-turned-murder suspect O.J. Simpson, this American lawyer also helped found The Innocence Project, an organization devoted to using DNA...

3. Nicholas Johnson (1934)

American Legal Scholar

Lawyer and professor who was once the commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. He was a professor at the University of Iowa School of Law emphasizing internet law. He authored a number of...

4. Akhil Reed Amar (1958)

American Legal Scholar

Akhil Reed Amar is an American legal scholar an expert on constitutional law and criminal procedure. Formerly the Southmayd Professor of Law at Yale Law School he was named Sterling...

5. R. Kent Greenawalt (1936)

American Legal Scholar

R. Kent Greenawalt is a University Professor at Columbia Law School. His primary interests involve constitutional law especially First Amendment jurisprudence and legal philosophy. Born in Brooklyn New York he...

6. Suzanne Reynolds (Unknow)

American Legal Scholar

Suzanne Reynolds is a law professor and Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Wake Forest University School of Law. She ran for the North Carolina Supreme Court seat held...

7. Samuel Issacharoff (Unknow)

American Legal Scholar

Samuel Issacharoff is an American law professor whose scholarly work focuses on voting rights and civil procedure A former student radical he is currently the Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor...

8. Gary L. Francione (Unknow)

American Legal Scholar

Gary Lawrence Francione is an American legal scholar. He is the Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law & Philosophy at Rutgers School of Law–Newark. Francione...

9. Randall Kennedy (1954)

American Legal Scholar

Randall L. Kennedy is an American Law professor and author at Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts. He is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law and focuses his research on...

10. Daniel Fischel (Unknow)

American Legal Scholar

Daniel R. Fischel is the emeritus Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business and former Dean of University of Chicago Law School and a co-founder of Lexecon. He...

11. Martha Minow (1954)

American Legal Scholar

Martha Louise Minow is the Morgan and Helen Chu Professor of Law and the Dean of Harvard Law School. She has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981 where her...

12. Thomas H. Jackson (1950)

American Legal Scholar

Thomas H. Jackson was the ninth president of the University of Rochester preceded by Dennis O'Brien. Jackson held the position of president from 1994 until he formally stepped down on...

13. James Tomkovicz (Unknow)

American Legal Scholar

James Joseph Jim Tomkovicz is a professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Tomkovicz has authored six amicus curiae briefs in the Supreme Court of the...

14. Joseph H. H. Weiler (Unknow)

American Legal Scholar

Joseph Halevi Horowitz Weiler is Joseph Straus Professor of Law and European Union Jean Monnet Chair at New York University Law School and President of the European University Institute in...

15. Jeremy A. Rabkin (1952)

American Legal Scholar

Jeremy A. Rabkin is a professor of law at George Mason University School of Law where he teaches constitutional law and international law. Prior to joining the George Mason faculty...

16. Randy Barnett (1952)

American Legal Scholar

Randy E. Barnett is a lawyer a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches constitutional law and contracts and a legal theorist in the United States. He...

17. Robert P. George (1955)

American Legal Scholar

Robert Peter George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University where he lectures on constitutional interpretation civil liberties and philosophy of law. He also serves as the director of...

18. Adrian Vermeule (1968)

American Legal Scholar

Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule is an American legal scholar. He writes as Adrian Vermeule.

19. Richard W. Garnett (1968)

American Legal Scholar

Richard W. Garnett is an associate dean and professor of law at Notre Dame Law School teaching in the areas of criminal law criminal procedure First Amendment law and the...

20. Jeffrey S. Lehman (1956)

American Legal Scholar

Jeffrey Sean Lehman is an American scholar lawyer and academic administrator who is currently serving as vice chancellor and CEO of startup joint venture New York University Shanghai.

21. Mark D. West (1968)

American Legal Scholar

Mark D. West is a U. S. legal scholar Nippon Life Professor of Law and Dean of the University of Michigan Law School. In January 2013 he was named as...

22. Dorothy Roberts (1956)

American Legal Scholar

Dorothy E. Roberts is an internationally recognized scholar public intellectual and social justice advocate she has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender race and class in legal...

23. Eugene Volokh (1968)

American Legal Scholar

Eugene Volokh is an American law professor the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He publishes the blog The Volokh Conspiracy. He is an...

24. Jonathan H. Adler (1969)

American Legal Scholar

Jonathan H. Adler is an American legal commentator and law professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He contributes to the widely read weblog The Volokh Conspiracy...

25. Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz (1970)

American Legal Scholar

Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz is an American Constitutional Law Scholar and Broadway Producer. He writes and teaches in the fields of constitutional law statutory interpretation and federal jurisdiction. Before returning to...

26. Orin Kerr (1971)

American Legal Scholar

Orin S. Kerr is a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. He is known as a scholar in the subjects of computer crime law and internet...

27. Mortimer Sellers (Unknow)

American Legal Scholar

Mortimer Sellers is a law professor philosopher and historian. His work primarily concerns international law comparative law legal history constitutional law philosophy of law and Roman law. He has...

28. Karl Llewellyn (1893)

American Legal Scholar

Karl Nickerson Llewellyn was a prominent American jurisprudential scholar associated with the school of legal realism. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Llewellyn as one of the twenty most...

29. Jules Coleman (1947)

American Legal Scholar

Jules Leslie Coleman is a scholar of law and jurisprudence. He was the Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School until 2012. He...

30. Gary Chartier (1966)

American Legal Scholar

Gary William Chartier is an American legal scholar who currently serves as Professor of Law and Business Ethics and Associate Dean of the Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business...

31. John Hart Ely (1938)

American Legal Scholar

John Hart Ely is one of the most widely cited legal scholars in United States history ranking just after Richard Posner Ronald Dworkin and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. according to...

32. Paul Mahoney (American lawyer) (Unknow)

American Legal Scholar

Paul G. Mahoney is an American law professor. He became Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law on July 1 2008 succeeding John Calvin Jeffries. Mahoney graduated in...

33. Elizabeth F. Emens (1972)

American Legal Scholar

Elizabeth F. Emens is a legal scholar and currently an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia University. She specializes in anti-discrimination law disability law law and sexuality family law and...

34. Jack Goldsmith (1962)

American Legal Scholar

with the surname Goldsmith see Goldsmith. Jack Landman Goldsmith is a Harvard Law School professor who has written extensively in the field of international law civil procedure cyber law and...

35. Eric Posner (1965)

American Legal Scholar

Eric Andrew Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. An editor of The Journal of Legal Studies he has also published numerous...

36. Evan H. Caminker (1961)

American Legal Scholar

Evan H. Caminker is a Dean Emeritus of the University of Michigan Law School. As Dean he succeeded Jeffrey S. Lehman who resigned to become president of Cornell University. Caminker...

37. Frank H. Wu (1967)

American Legal Scholar

H. Wu is a law professor author and public intellectual. He is the chancellor and dean of the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco California...

38. Christine M. Jolls (1967)

American Legal Scholar

Christine Jolls is the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization at Yale Law School where she has been on the faculty since 2006. She is a leader in...