Helen Elizabeth Garrett,commonly known as Elizabeth Garrett or Beth Garrett,was an American professor of law and academic administrator. Between 2010 and 2015,she served as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Southern California. On July 1,2015,she became the 13th president of Cornell University—the first woman to serve as president of the university. She died from colon cancer on March 6,2016,the first Cornell president to die while in office.
Garrett Epps is an American legal scholar,novelist,and journalist. He was professor of law at the University of Baltimore until his retirement in June 2020;previously he was the Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at the University of Oregon.
Haywood Jefferson Powell is a law professor at Duke University. Before his return to Duke,he served in the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Justice Department in Washington,D.C. Before this second tenure in the Justice Department,Powell was the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law at The George Washington University in Washington,D.C.,a post which he accepted in 2010. Before joining The George Washington University Law Faculty,Powell had been a professor of Law at Duke University since 1987. In 1999 the Duke Bar Association presented Powell with the Excellence in Small Section Teaching Award,and in the academic year 2001–2002,he was Duke University's Scholar/Teacher of the year. More recently,he has been named Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Law and Divinity. Powell is currently a Professor of Law at Duke University,where he teaches constitutional law and leads the school's First Amendment Clinic.
A Doctor of Juridical Science,or a Doctor of the Science of Law, is a research doctorate in law equivalent to the more commonly awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Erwin Chemerinsky is an American legal scholar known for his studies of United States constitutional law and federal civil procedure. Since 2017,Chemerinsky has been the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. Previously,he also served as the inaugural dean of the University of California,Irvine School of Law from 2008 to 2017.
John B. Quigley is a professor of law at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University,where he is the Presidents' Club Professor of Law. In 1995 he was recipient of the Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award. Born John Bernard Quigley Jr.,he was raised in St. Louis,Missouri and educated at the St. Louis Country Day School. He graduated from Harvard in the class of 1962,later taking an LL.B degree from Harvard Law School in 1966 and an M.A.,also awarded in 1966. He was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts in 1967. Before joining the Ohio State faculty in 1969,he was a research scholar at Moscow State University,and a research associate in comparative law at Harvard Law School. Professor Quigley teaches international law and comparative law. Professor Quigley holds an adjunct appointment in the Political Science Department. In 1982–83 he was a visiting professor at the University of Dar es Salaam,Tanzania.
Mark Victor Tushnet is an American legal scholar. He specializes in constitutional law and theory,including comparative constitutional law,and is currently the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Tushnet is identified with the critical legal studies movement.
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.
Zechariah Chafee Jr. was an American judicial philosopher and civil rights advocate,described as "possibly the most important First Amendment scholar of the first half of the twentieth century" by Richard Primus. Chafee's avid defense of freedom of speech led to Senator Joseph McCarthy calling him "dangerous" to America.
Donald L. Horowitz is James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke Law School and Duke University in Durham,North Carolina,United States.
William Warner Van Alstyne was an American attorney,law professor,and constitutional law scholar. Prior to retiring in 2012,he held the named position of Lee Professor of Law at William and Mary Law School. He was the Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School for more than 30 years. Among many others,he taught at Chicago Law School,Stanford Law School,University of California,Berkeley Law School,University of California,Los Angeles Law School,and Michigan Law School.
Allen Edward Buchanan is a moral,political and legal philosopher. As of 2022,he held multiple academic positions:Laureate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona,Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford University,Visiting Professor of the philosophy of international law at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College,London,and James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at Duke University.
Christopher L. Garrett is a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court since January 1,2019. Previously,he served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 2013 to 2019,and was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2008 to 2012.
Christopher Henry Schroeder is an American attorney and law professor who is the current Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Biden Administration. He served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy in the United States Department of Justice during the presidency of Barack Obama,serving from April 2010 until December 2012. Before and after his time as Assistant Attorney General,he was the Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke University School of Law. He is now Professor Emeritus of the same institution.
Michael R. Bromwich is an American litigation attorney. He was appointed as director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,Regulation and Enforcement on June 15,2010,in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He served in that capacity until the dissolution of the agency on October 1,2011.
Duke University School of Law is the law school of Duke University,a private research university in Durham,North Carolina. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges,the School of Law is a constituent academic unit that began in 1868 as the Trinity College School of Law. In 1924,following the renaming of Trinity College to Duke University,the school was renamed Duke University School of Law.
Connick v. Thompson,563 U.S. 51 (2011),is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court considered whether a prosecutor's office can be held liable for a single Brady violation by one of its members on the theory that the office provided inadequate training.
Steve Penrod is a distinguished professor of psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His education and career have led him to become an expert in the areas of psychology and law. He has contributed heavily to the field of psychology in the area of eyewitness memory,specifically the accuracy of eyewitness identification.
The Edmond &Lily Safra Center for Ethics is a research center at Harvard University. The center seeks "to advance teaching and research on ethical issues in public life." It is named for Edmond J. Safra and has been supported by Lily Safra and the Edmond J. Safra Foundation. The Center for Ethics was the first Interfaculty Initiative at Harvard University.
Karen L. "Kerry" Abrams is an American law professor and academic administrator. She currently serves as the James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke Dean of the Duke University School of Law.
