The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania,a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. Penn Carey Law offers the degrees of Juris Doctor (J.D.),Master of Laws (LL.M.),Master of Comparative Laws (LL.C.M.),Master in Law (M.L.),and Doctor of the Science of Law (S.J.D.).
The University of Chicago Law School is the law school of the University of Chicago,a private research university in Chicago,Illinois. It is consistently ranked among the best and most prestigious law schools in the world,and has many distinguished alumni in the judiciary,academia,government,politics and business. It employs more than 180 full-time and part-time faculty and hosts more than 600 students in its Juris Doctor program,while also offering the Master of Laws,Master of Studies in Law and Doctor of Juridical Science degrees in law.
The Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School. According to the Journal Citation Reports,the Harvard Law Review's 2015 impact factor of 4.979 placed the journal first out of 143 journals in the category "Law". It is published monthly from November through June,with the November issue dedicated to covering the previous year's term of the Supreme Court of the United States. The journal also publishes the online-only Harvard Law Review Forum,a rolling journal of scholarly responses to the main journal's content. The law review is one of three honors societies at the law school,along with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and the Board of Student Advisors. Students who are selected for more than one of these three organizations may only join one.
Guido Calabresi is an Italian-born American jurist who serves as a senior circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a former Dean of Yale Law School,where he has been a professor since 1959. Calabresi is considered,along with Ronald Coase and Richard Posner,a founder of the field of law and economics.
Akhil Reed Amar is an American legal scholar known for his expertise in constitutional law and criminal procedure. He holds the position of Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University,and is an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University. In 2008,a Legal Affairs poll placed Amar among the top 20 contemporary American legal thinkers.
Jack Greenberg was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984,succeeding Thurgood Marshall. He was involved in numerous crucial cases,including Brown v. Board of Education,which ended segregation in public schools. In all,he argued 40 civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court,and won almost all of them.
Vikram David Amar is an American legal scholar focusing on constitutional law,federal courts,and civil and criminal procedure. In August 2015,he became dean of the University of Illinois College of Law and the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law. He returned to the University of California,Davis School of Law as a Distinguished Professor of Law in 2023.
John Calvin Jeffries,Jr. is a prominent law professor and was dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from 2001 to 2008.
Richard A. Bierschbach is dean and professor of law at Wayne State University Law School. He became Wayne Law's 12th dean on August 17,2017. He previously taught at Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York,where he also served as vice dean.
David W. Leebron is an American legal scholar who served as the 7th President of Rice University from 2004 to 2022. He was a professor and dean of Columbia Law School,until he was named president of Rice University on July 1,2004. In 2024,he was named the new president and CEO of Texas 2036.
Lance Liebman is an American law professor. He is the former Dean of Columbia Law School,and served as the Director of the American Law Institute from May 1999 to May 2014.
John Francis Manning is an American legal scholar who serves as the 13th Dean of Harvard Law School. He was previously the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS),where he is a scholar of administrative and constitutional law.
Mary Elizabeth Magill is an American legal scholar and academic administrator. She served as the 9th president of the University of Pennsylvania from 2022 to 2023,executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia from 2019 to 2022,and dean of Stanford Law School from 2012 to 2019.
Nora V. Demleitner is a German-American jurist and academic administrator. She is the president of St. John's College - Annapolis (2022–present). Prior to this,she served as the dean of Washington and Lee University School of Law from 2012-2015 and dean of Hofstra University School of Law from 2007-2012.
Michael S. Barr is an American legal scholar who has been serving as second vice chair of the Federal Reserve for supervision since 2022. From 2009 to 2011,he was assistant secretary of the treasury for financial institutions under President Barack Obama. At the University of Michigan,he has been serving as faculty member since 2001,professor of law since 2006,professor of public policy since 2014.
Harry Hillel Wellington was an American legal scholar who served as the Dean of Yale Law School from 1975 to 1985 and the dean of New York Law School from 1992 to 2000.
David Van Zandt is an American attorney,legal scholar,and academic administrator. He served as president of The New School from Jan. 2011 to Apr. 15,2020. Earlier he served as Dean of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law,from 1995 to 2011. He has taught courses in international financial markets,business associations,property,practical issues in business law,and legal realism. He is an expert in business associations,international business transactions,property law,jurisprudence,law and social science,and legal education.
Michael Klausner is the Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He has been a member of the Stanford Law School faculty since 1997. He works in the areas of corporate law,corporate governance,and financial regulation.
Kyle D. Logue is an American law professor and the Douglas A. Kahn Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He was appointed to serve as interim dean of the Law School effective January 1,2024,until a permanent dean is appointed. From 2006-2016 he was the Wade H. and Dores M. McCree Collegiate Professor of Law. Logue is a leading scholar and teacher in the fields of insurance law,tax law,and torts. Logue uses insights from economics,psychology,and other disciplines to shed light on issues relating to the allocation,regulation,and fair distribution of risk in society. His recent research includes work on how private insurance contracts regulate individual and commercial behavior and on how public law regulates the behavior of insurance companies.
