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António da Mota Veiga

António Jorge Martins da Mota Veiga (Cascais, 28 February 1915 – Lisbon, CUF Hospital, 14 November 2005) was a Portuguese politician and former Minister and law professor.

Christian G. Fritz

Christian G. Fritz is a legal historian and a law professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law He writes on U.S. constitutional history, and his 2007 book American Sovereigns: the People and America’s Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War, published by Cambridge University Press, traces the historical roots of popular sovereignty in U.S. law.

Ellen D. Katz

Ellen D. Katz is an American law professor at the University of Michigan Law School.

Equal consideration of interests

Philosophers Bonnie Steinbock and William Baxter reject the concept of giving equal consideration.

Legal Information Institute

LII was established in 1992 at Cornell Law School by Professor Peter Martin and Tom Bruce with a $250,000 multi-year startup grant from the National Center for Automated Information Research.


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Adam Winkler

Along with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Leonard Levy and UCLA School of Law professor Kenneth Karst, Winkler edited the six-volume Encyclopedia of the American Constitution.

Alan Khazei

In response to the entry on September 15 of Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren into the Senate campaign, Khazei issued a direct challenge to the other Democratic candidates — and specifically to Warren — to forego campaign funds from corporate lobbyists and all Political Action Committees.

Alex Abella

Abella's non-fiction work includes Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States (2003), co-authored with law professor and current Los Angeles Superior Court judge Scott Gordon.

Alexander Blok

Some of his relatives were literary men, his father being a law professor in Warsaw, and his maternal grandfather the rector of Saint Petersburg State University.

Angel Martín Taboas

Married to the former Carmen Viola García, he is the father of University of Puerto Rico law professor and former Senator Fernando Martín, the Executive President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP).

Angela Harris

Angela P. Harris (born c. 1959), law professor at University of California, Davis School of Law

Arturo Tolentino

He was a law professor in the University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomás, University of the East, University of Manila, Arellano University, FEU, Manila Law College, Philippine Law School, San Beda College and Quezon College.

Bathilde d'Orléans

In 1822, while she was taking part in a march towards the Panthéon, she lost consciousness, and drew her last breath in the home of a law professor who taught at the Sorbonne.

Charles Fincher

In 2008, Fincher was commissioned by the ABA’s Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys (CASA) to paint a fantasy illustration of Constitutional law professor Erwin Chemerinsky as a shortstop with the Chicago Cubs, the scholar's favorite team.

De Freitas do Amaral

Diogo de Freitas do Amaral (born 1941), a Portuguese politician and law professor

Deborah Platt Majoras

Majoras filled the FTC vacancy created by Timothy Muris, who announced May 11, 2004 that he would step down to become a law professor at George Mason University.

Director of National Intelligence Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies

The group included former counter-terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke, former Acting CIA director Michael Morell, University of Chicago Law professor Geoffrey Stone, former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Cass Sunstein and former Chief Counselor for Privacy in the Office of Management and Budget Peter Swire.

Eddie Sutton

While at Arkansas, Sutton befriended future President Bill Clinton, then a law professor at the University's law school.

Edgardo José Maya Villazón

He became a law professor at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University and Universidad Externado de Colombia in which he taught labor and collective law for undergraduate and graduate students.

Free South Africa Movement

The movement began when Randall Robinson, Executive Director of TransAfrica, Mary Frances Berry, Commissioner of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, D.C. Congressman Walter Fauntroy and Georgetown University law professor Eleanor Holmes Norton met with South African Ambassador at his embassy to highlight human rights abuses in South Africa.

George Pepper

George W. Pepper (1867–1961), American lawyer, law professor, and Republican politician from Pennsylvania

Heaphy

Tim Heaphy (born 1964), American attorney and law professor

Institute for Middle East Understanding

The names included, Samar Assad, Executive Director of the Washington, DC-based Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, Diana Buttu, a Ramallah-based attorney and former advisor to Palestinian negotiators, Omar Dajani, a San Francisco-based law professor and former legal advisor to United Nations Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larson and Nadia Hijab, a Senior Fellow at the Washington, DC-based Institute for Palestine Studies.

James Huffman

Jim Huffman (born 1945), law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School and 2010 candidate for United States Senator from Oregon

John Burris

He is married to Cheryl Amana-Burris, his third wife, a law professor at North Carolina Central University.

John Eastman

John C. Eastman, California law professor, politician and chair of the National Organization for Marriage

John J. Donohue III

John J. Donohue III is a law professor and economist widely known for his writings on effect of legalized abortion on crime and for his criticism of John Lott's book More Guns, Less Crime.

Judith A. Winston

Judith A. Winston is a lawyer and law professor, former General Counsel of the US Department of Education, and was one of the lead members of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's Agency Review teams for the Departments of Education and Labor.

Krider Performing Arts Center

Ruby taught public speaking and drama to many generations of Parisians, a few being Tony winner Cherry Jones, Pulitzer Prize winner John Noble Wilford, Cheers star Shelley Long, Vanderbilt law professor Robert Covington, and Ford Motor Company Controller Frank Mason.

Ksenija Atanasijević

At a public meeting where many people spoke in support of her, the most prominent speakers were law professor Živojin M. Perić and poet Sima Pandurović.

Lutz Meyer-Goßner

Lutz Meyer-Goßner (born 10 July 1936 in Nienburg, Lower Saxony) is a German lawyer, jurist and law professor.

Manuel de la Peña y Peña

He was also a law professor at Universidad Nacional de México, president of the Academy of Jurisprudence, and rector of the College of Lawyers.

Marçal

Marçal Justen Filho (born 1955), a Brazilian attorney and Law professor

Menis E. Ketchum

In addition to Menis Ketchum, they were former Supreme Court of Appeals Justice Margaret Workman, the first woman to serve on the state's high court, WVU law professor and ballot access advocate Bob Bastress, and incumbent Justice Elliott "Spike" Maynard.

Mzilikazi High School

Yvonne Vera the late internationally recognised novelist and Prof Welshman Ncube Law professor and prominent opposition politician are also alumni.

National Registry of Exonerations

The editor of the registry is Michigan Law professor Samuel R. Gross, who with Michael Shaffer wrote the report Exonerations in the United States, 1989-2012.

Paul Campos

Paul F. Campos is a law professor, author and blogger on the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder.

Penne alla vodka

Paula Franzese, an American law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law, has asserted that her father Luigi Franzese, born in Naples, Italy in 1931, devised the first version of penne alla vodka, which he called penne alla Russa because of the addition of the vodka to his tomato and cream sauce base.

Philip N. Diehl

In January 2013, the platinum coin law received widespread media attention when Paul Krugman, a Noble Prize winning economist, and Laurence Tribe, a prominent constitutional law professor at the Harvard School of Law, endorsed a proposal to use the law to mint a trillion dollar coin.

Ralph Paine, Jr.

Paine lamented "I'm about to be fired unless I can find someone who can satisfy Times advertisers without catering to them." Through Yale law professor William O. Douglas, he found that replacement, Eliot Janeway.

Romer v. Evans

Supporters of the decision, such as law professor Louis Michael Seidman, celebrated its "radical" nature, and hailed it as a revival of the Warren Court's activism.

Ronald Frank Thiemann

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz wrote, in a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, "Surely Dean Thiemann would not have been asked to resign if he had been found using his Harvard-owned computer to keep track of his private stamp collection. Nor would he have been asked to leave if a cleaning person had found a copy of a pornographic magazine in the desk drawer of his Harvard-owned residence. What, then, is the principle, and where are the lines to be drawn?"

Salkin

Patricia Salkin (born ?), U.S. academic, law professor, and blogger

Sarah Chayes

Sarah Chayes is the daughter of law professor and Kennedy administration member Abram Chayes and his wife Antonia Handler Chayes.

Sarah Kernochan

Kernochan was born in New York City, the daughter of Adelaide (Chatfield-Taylor), an international organization consultant, and John Marshall Kernochan, a law professor.

Sarah Weddington

Sarah Ragle Weddington (born February 5, 1945), is an American attorney, law professor, and former Texas state legislator best known for representing "Jane Roe" (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark Roe v. Wade case before the United States Supreme Court.

Steven Barnett

Stephen Barnett (1935–2009), American law professor and legal scholar

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

Second-Order Decisions. Law professor Cass Sunstein uses the term "second-order decisions" for decisions that follow a rule.

Will McCormack

He has two older sisters, actress Mary McCormack and Michigan Supreme Court Justice & former University of Michigan law professor Bridget Mary McCormack.

Young v. Facebook, Inc.

Eric Goldman, an internet law professor at Santa Clara University, noted that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act could well apply to at least some of Young's claims from the second complaint.