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8 unusual facts about Juris Doctor


Alpha Phi Sigma

Established in January, 1942 at Washington State University, Alpha Phi Sigma recognizes academic excellence of undergraduate and graduate students of criminal justice, as well as those seeking a Juris Doctor degree.

Ewald Bucher

He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Munich in 1941 and served then as a soldier in World War II from 1941 to 1944.

Hartforth

The current Lord of Hartforth is Romero Anton Montalban-Anderssen, Juris Doctor.

Lawrence H. Fountain

Fountain was educated in the public schools of Edgecombe County and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received his A. B. degree in 1934 and his Juris Doctor degree.

Nguyen Manh Tuong

At age 22, he became the first Vietnamese person to receive two doctorates in France: Juris Doctor

Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy

The Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy (John F. Kennedy Argentine University) was founded by Miguel Herrera Figueroa, JD, on April 4, 1964 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Warren J. Ferguson

Upon return, he earned his J.D. from University of Southern California in 1949.

Yuri Barseghov

Yuri Barseghov (Юрий Барсегов, Յուրի Բարսեղով, March 7, 1925, Tiflis - August 6, 2008, Moscow) was an internetional law expert, J.D., professor, member of the United Nations' International Law Commission, the special assistant of the UN Deputy Secretary-General at the UN Secretariat (since 1971), director of the Armenian Institute of International Law and Political Science and a Foreign Member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences.


Allen Sharp

Born in Washington, D.C., Sharp received a B.A. from Indiana State University in 1953, a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law in 1957, and later received a M.A. from Butler University in 1986.

Amy Tuck

Tuck, a native of tiny Maben in Oktibbeha County in north central Mississippi, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Mississippi State University and a Juris Doctor degree from Mississippi College School of Law.

Arthur Torres

He holds a Bachelor's degree from UC Santa Cruz and a Juris Doctor from University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall).

B. T. Collins

Upon returning to the United States, Collins enrolled at Santa Clara University, earning a B.A. in 1970 and a J.D. in 1973.

Barry M. Costello

He attended Albany Law School where he earned a Juris Doctor degree and is currently a member of the New York State Bar.

Bob Ricks

He received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University in 1967 and his Juris Doctor degree from Baylor Law School in 1969, where he served as an Editor of the Baylor Law Review and was a member of Phi Delta Phi.

Brian H. Hook

Brian H. Hook received a bachelor's degree in Marketing from the University of St. Thomas, a master's degree in Philosophy from Boston College and, in 1999, a J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law.

Cathy Seibel

Born in West Islip, New York, Seibel graduated from Princeton University with her Bachelor's degree in 1982 and later from Fordham University School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree in 1985.

Charles E. Freeman

Originally from Virginia, Freeman (the surname may have been adopted when his father's family was freed from slavery by Quakers before the Civil War) did his undergraduate work at Virginia Union University and earned his J.D. degree from John Marshall Law School.

CUHK Faculty of Law

The graduate-level law classes for the JD, the LLM and the PCLL are held at the Graduate Law Centre (GLC), on the second floor of the Bank of America Tower in Admiralty.

Danny C. Reeves

Born in Corbin, Kentucky, Reeves received a B.A. from Eastern Kentucky University in 1978 and a J.D. from Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law in 1981.

David Westin

He received a BA degree with honors and distinction from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and a JD degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1977.

Debra Ann Livingston

Livingston was born in Waycross, Georgia, and received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1980 and a Juris doctor from Harvard Law School in 1984, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

A graduate of the University of Florida (B.A., 1965; J.D., 1969) Wilkes became Professor of Law at the University of Georgia in 1971, a post he has held ever since.

Earl E. Anderson

In addition to his bachelor of science and master of arts degrees, Anderson is also earned a Juris Doctor degree summa cum laude from George Washington University Law School (GWU).

Eric P. Schwartz

Eric P. Schwartz was educated at Binghamton University, receiving a B.A. in Political Science; at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, receiving an M.P.A. with a specialization in International Relations; and at the New York University School of Law, receiving a J.D.

Frank S. Petersen

He enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II, after which he received an associate degree from Santa Rosa Junior College in 1948 and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco in 1951.

George P. Schiavelli

Born in Miami Beach, Florida, Schiavelli received an A.B. from Stanford University in 1970 and a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law in 1974.

Izabella St. James

She finished law school in December 2001, earning her Juris Doctor degree by graduating a semester early having completed study abroad programs at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain and at the Jagiellonian University in her native Poland.

Jack Goldsmith

He earned a second B.A. with first class honours, from Oxford University, in 1986, a J.D. from Yale Law School, in 1989, an M.A. from Oxford (which is not a separate degree, but an upgrading of the BA), in 1991, and a diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law in 1992.

James Dale Todd

Born in Scotts Hill, Tennessee, Todd received a B.S. from Lambuth College in 1965, a Master of Combined Sciences from the University of Mississippi in 1968, and a J.D. from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 1972.

James J. Greco

He graduated from Hamden High School in 1976, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Georgetown University in 1980, and a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law, in 1983.

Jeffrey P. Minear

In 1982, he earned both a master's degree in resource policy and management from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

John E. Steele

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Detroit in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of Detroit College of Law in 1973.

John Pajak

From 1953-56 he was in the Syracuse University College of Law in a combination program which culminated in his earning of an LL.B., which was, later, converted to a J.D. He was in the Order of the Coif, and was a Notes Editor on the Syracuse Law Review.

Juan Arambula

He graduated with high honors from Harvard University, and went on to earn a Master's degree in Educational Administration and Policy Analysis from the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Kenneth Zebrowski, Jr.

Zebrowski graduated from Clarkstown Schools before receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree (Magna cum Laude) in political science from the State University of New York at Albany and his Juris Doctor degree from the Seton Hall University School of Law.

Larry R. Hicks

Born in Evanston, Illinois, Hicks received a B.S. from the University of Nevada in 1965 and a J.D. from the University of Colorado in 1968.

Liza M. Ortiz

She obtained her Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude from Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1999, after spending a summer at the International Studies Center at the José Ortega y Gasset Foundation in Toledo, Spain studying European Community Law and Comparative Spanish Family Law.

Martin Daniel Eakes

Eakes grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina and graduated from Davidson College, where he majored in physics and philosophy, and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.P.P. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Nicole Dryden

Dryden earned her juris doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York in 2005, and currently works as a human rights and immigration lawyer in the New York City office of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy.

Paul Sprenger

Sprenger earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan School of Business Administration in 1962 and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1965.

Philip S. Cifarelli

Philip S. Cifarelli, M.D., J.D. (July 18, 1935 – April 2, 2008) was an American physician and attorney in Orange County, California who established a legal medicine bioethics educational program at the Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California, formerly COMP.

Reuben Jeffery III

He then moved to Stanford University, where he received both an M.B.A. and a J.D. in 1981 (as part of the joint program between the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School).

Richard A. Jones

After attending Seattle public schools, Richard Jones received a Bachelor of Public Affairs from Seattle University in 1972 and a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in 1975.

Robert M. Isaac

He graduated from Colorado Springs High School in 1945; earned a B.S. upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1951; and a J.D. from the University of Southern California in 1962.

Sam E. Haddon

Born in West Monroe, Louisiana, Haddon received a B.S. from Rice University in 1959 and a J.D. from the University of Montana, School of Law in 1965.

Sandy D'Alemberte

In 1962, he received his juris doctor with honors from the University of Florida where he was named to the Order of the Coif, served as president of the Student Bar Association, was captain of the moot court team, served as articles editor of the University of Florida Law Review, and received the J. Hillis Miller Award as the outstanding law graduate.

Sarah MacKenzie

Mac received her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Minnesota and her Juris Doctor degree from Duke University, and was subsequently stationed in Bosnia during the war there.

William J. Birnes

A graduate of New York University, he holds a Ph.D in medieval literature (with a dissertation on Piers Plowman) from the same institution (1974) and later earned a J.D. degree from Concord Law School.

William J. Winslade

William J. Winslade, Ph.D., J.D. (born 18 November 1941) is the James Wade Rockwell Professor of Philosophy of Medicine at the Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law and Associate Director for Graduate Programs, Health Law & Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center.


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Curtis McKenzie

He also attended Georgetown University Law Center on the Paul Connolly Memorial Full-Tuition Scholarship and received his Juris Doctor, Magna Cum Laude and Order of the Coif in 1995.

Kaka Bag-ao

Raised in Loreto, Surigao del Norte (now part of Dinagat Islands), Bag-ao earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the De La Salle University, and her Juris Doctor (JD) degree from the Ateneo de Manila Law School.

LaVar Christensen

He received his B.A. degree from Brigham Young University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California.

Robert W. Heagney

After graduating from Simsbury High School, Rob earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Anselm College in 1975 and later received his Juris Doctor from the University of Bridgeport School of Law, now Quinnipiac University, in 1980.