Douglas Howard Ginsburg is an American jurist and academic who serves as a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed to that court in October 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, and served as its chief judge from July 2001 until February 2008. In October 1987, Reagan announced his intention to nominate Ginsburg as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, but withdrew his name from consideration before being formally nominated, after his earlier marijuana use created controversy.
Loyola University Chicago School of Law is the law school of Loyola University Chicago, in Illinois. Established in 1909, by the Society of Jesus, the Roman Catholic order of the Jesuits, the School of Law is located in downtown Chicago. Loyola University Chicago School of Law offers degrees and combined degree programs, including the Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.).
Loyola Law School is the law school of Loyola Marymount University, a private Catholic university in Los Angeles, California. Loyola was established in 1920.
Barry Sullivan may refer to:
Barry R. Schaller (1938–2017) was an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 2007 to 2008. He served as a judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court from 1992 to 2007. Before that, he was a trial court judge in Connecticut for 18 years. A graduate of Yale University and the Yale Law School, he was a visiting lecturer in public policy at Trinity College where he taught bioethics, public health law and ethics, health policy, and public policy and law. He was a clinical visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School, where he taught appellate practice and procedure. He also had appointments as visiting lecturer at Wesleyan University, where he taught bioethics and public health law, ethics and policy, and at the University of Connecticut School of Public Health. Justice Schaller also taught an appellate advocacy class at Yale Law School, focusing on Connecticut appellate procedure. Justice Schaller was a former chair of the Connecticut Board of Pardons, a charter life member of the Connecticut Bar Foundation, a member of the American Law Institute, and Chair of the Connecticut Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee. In May, 2008, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Quinnipiac University School of Law.
Thomas Robert Fitzgerald was a chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. He became the first Illinois chief justice to preside over the impeachment trial of a sitting governor when he presided over the impeachment trial of Governor Rod Blagojevich.
Eugene Raymond Sullivan is an American lawyer who serves as a Senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. In 1990, President George H. W. Bush named him the chief judge. When not recalled to active court service, Sullivan is a senior partner in the D.C. law firm of Freeh, Sporkin & Sullivan LLP.
Paul Finkelman is an American legal historian, the Robert E. and Susan T. Rydell Visiting Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and a research affiliate at the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is the author or editor of more than 50 books on American legal and constitutional history, slavery, general American history and baseball. In addition, he has authored more than 200 scholarly articles on these and many other subjects. From 2017 - 2022, Finkelman served as the President and Chancellor of Gratz College, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania.
Murray Dry is an American political scientist specializing in American constitutional law, American political thought, political philosophy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, federalism, separation of powers, and the American founding.
Scribes—The American Society of Legal Writers—is an organization dedicated to encouraging legal writers and improving legal writing throughout the entire legal community: in court, in the law office, in the publishing house, and in law school. Founded in 1953, Scribes is the oldest organization of its kind. Scribes has almost 2,700 members, including state and federal judges, practicing lawyers, law-school deans and professors, and legal editors. Since 2017, its executive office has been located in Chicago, Illinois at UIC John Marshall Law School (Chicago). From 2015 to 2017, it was located in Lubbock, Texas at Texas Tech University, and before that, it was located in Michigan at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. The executive director is Philip Johnson.
Mary Jane Theis is an Illinois Supreme Court Justice for the First Judicial District in Cook County, Illinois.
Beth Robinson is an American lawyer and judge from Vermont. She is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and is the first openly lesbian judge to serve on any Circuit Court. Robinson served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 2011 to 2021.
Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy is an international development economist, an educator, and higher education administrator with extensive experience in U.S and India. Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy is currently a Distinguished College Professor of International Economics at Middlebury College, Vermont. He joined the College in 1990 as a member of the economics department. From 2009-2015, he served as the President of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. From 2017-2021 he served as the Inaugural Vice Chancellor of Krea University. He also currently serves as the Chairman of The Asia Foundation, San Francisco.
Penelope (Penny) Andrews is a South African and American legal scholar.
Theresa Amato is a US public advocate and political activist. Founder and first president of the Citizen Advocacy Center which builds democracy for the 21st century, she currently serves as executive director of Citizen Works, an organization devoted to rebalancing the power between corporations and citizens. She is also the Director of its Fair Contracts Project. Amato is a manager of Amato & Main, LLC, through which she advises nonprofits, foundations, and progressive candidates seeking office.
Michael Andrew Fitts is an American legal scholar who is the current president of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Judge Rene H. Himel Professor of Law at the Tulane School of Law. He is a former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is also the author of numerous articles that have appeared in the Harvard Law Journal and other prestigious scholarly publications.
Nancy Christine Staudt is the Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School and the Vice President of Innovation at RAND Corporation. She is a scholar in tax, tax policy, and empirical legal studies.
Robyn Ann Layton is an Australian lawyer, who worked in a diverse range of legal roles, including as a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and judge of the South Australian Industrial Court. She was author of the South Australian Child Protection review known as "the Layton report" in 2003, and a member and then chair of the International Labour Organization's Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations from 1993 to 2008.
Charles Joseph Williams is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. He was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Michael M. Cabonargi is an American politician and lawyer currently serving as a commissioner of Cook County Board of Review from the 2nd district since 2011. Since 2019, he has also served as a vice-chair of the Democratic Party of Illinois.
