Rahm Israel Emanuel is an American politician and diplomat currently serving as United States ambassador to Japan. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives for three terms from 2003 to 2009. He was the White House Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2010 under Barack Obama and served as mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019.
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 also ranks first in other ranking systems of law reviews. 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.
MilošZeman is a Czech politician who served as the third president of the Czech Republic from 2013 to 2023. He also previously served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party from 1993 to 2001,he is credited with the revival of the party into one of the country's major political forces. Zeman briefly served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 1998.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &Sullivan,LLP is an American white shoe law firm headquartered in Los Angeles,California. The firm employs approximately 1,000 attorneys throughout 35 offices around the world.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &Rosati is an American multinational law firm specializing in business,securities,venture capital,and intellectual property law. It is generally one of the top-grossing law firms in the world. Headquartered in Palo Alto,California,the firm's clients are primarily technology companies,life science firms,emerging industries,venture capital firms,private equity establishments,and investment banks.
Kathleen Marie Sullivan is an American lawyer and senior counsel 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 was 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.
Megaupload Ltd was a Hong Kong–based online company established in 2005 that operated from 2005 to 2012 providing online services related to file storage and viewing.
Crystal Nix-Hines served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational,Scientific,and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the rank of Ambassador between July 2014 and January 2017.
Richard William Graber is an American lawyer from Wisconsin and Republican politician who served as United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2006 to 2009.
John Victor Roos is an American businessman,attorney,and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Japan from 2009 to 2013. He is the Founding Partner of Geodesic Capital. Before accepting the ambassadorship from President Barack Obama,Roos was the CEO of Silicon Valley–based law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &Rosati.
Norman L. Eisen is an American attorney,author,and former diplomat. He is a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution,a CNN legal analyst,and the co-founder of the States United Democracy Center. He was co-counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the first impeachment and trial of President Donald Trump in 2020. He served as White House Special Counsel for Ethics and Government Reform,United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic,and board chair of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). He is the author of four books,including The Last Palace:Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House (2018). In 2022,he co-authored Overcoming Trumpery:How to Restore Ethics,the Rule of Law,and Democracy.
Roger M. Milgrim is an American intellectual property lawyer,and the author of two multivolume law treatises:Milgrim on Trade Secrets and Milgrim on Licensing.
Paul Jeffrey Watford is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2012 to 2023. In 2016,The New York Times identified Watford as a potential Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. Watford resigned his judgeship in 2023 and became a partner at the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &Rosati.
John R. Phillips is an American diplomat and attorney who served as the United States Ambassador to Italy and San Marino,serving from 2013 to 2017. As a partner at Phillips &Cohen,LLP (1988–2013) and before that,in Los Angeles,he practiced public interest law,specializing in whistleblower cases that recovered billions from companies defrauding the government.
Robert Joseph Giuffra Jr. is an American attorney. He is Co-Chair and a partner of Sullivan &Cromwell in New York,and is a member of their Management Committee.
Hynek Kmoníček is a Czech diplomat and the current Czech Ambassador to Vietnam. Previously,Kmoníček served as foreign policy advisor of the President MilošZeman,and held ambassadorial posts including Czech Permanent representative to the United Nations in New York and subsequently as Ambassador to India,Australia,and the United States.
Deborah Ruth Malac is an American diplomat,who served as the United States Ambassador to Uganda. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and was confirmed by the Senate Nov. 19,2015. She previously served as United States Ambassador to Liberia.
Christopher Landau is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Mexico from 2019 to 2021. He was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump.
Jan Lipavský is a Czech politician and information technology manager who has been serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic since December 2021,in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala. A former member of the Czech Pirate Party,he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from October 2017 to October 2021.
