Daniel D. Polsby (born 1945) is former dean of the law school and professor of law at Antonin Scalia Law School (George Mason University) and was previously Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at Northwestern University. [1]
A research fellow at The Independent Institute, [2] Polsby is a graduate of Oakland University and the University of Minnesota Law School. He is licensed to practice law in New York. [3]
Polsby is a scholar of the right to bear arms [4] and testified for gun rights before the United States Congress. [5] He has also contributed to the Cato Journal, [6] Reason Magazine, [7] National Review. [8] and the Atlantic Monthly. [9] Polsby is a member of the American Law Institute. [10] Polsby is often cited in regard to judicial appointments and issues. He also commented against gerrymandering and term limits. [11] He co-developed, with Robert Popper, the Polsby–Popper test for quantifying gerrymandering.
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Henry Nodle Butler is an American professor of law, economics, and public policy, the former executive director of the Law & Economics Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington, Virginia. On April 22, 2015, Daniel D. Polsby sent an email to alumni announcing that Butler would be replacing Polsby as dean of the law school, effective June 25, 2015.
William Evan Kovacic is an American lawyer and legal scholar who served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2006 to 2011, including as its Chairman from 2008 to 2009. Kovacic is currently a professor at George Washington University Law School, where he serves as director of their Competition Law Center.
Robert A. Levy is the chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute as well as a director of the Institute of Justice, and the organizer and financier behind District of Columbia v. Heller, as well as Heller's co-counsel, in the Supreme Court Case that established the Second Amendment as affirming an individual right to gun ownership. He is a Cato senior fellow and an author and pundit. Before becoming a lawyer, he was the founder and CEO of CDA Investment Technologies. Levy is the founder of The Robert A. Levy Fellowship in Law and Liberty which encourages talented scholars to pursue a JD degree at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University.
Michael Ian Krauss is a professor emeritus of law at Antonin Scalia Law School, specializing in tort law, products liability, jurisprudence and legal ethics. He writes a Torts and Legal Ethics column for Forbes.
Jeremy A. Rabkin is a professor of law at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where he teaches constitutional law and international law. Prior to joining the George Mason faculty in 2007, he spent 27 years as a professor of government at Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University and graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Cornell.
Ángel Cabrera Izquierdo is the 12th and current President of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, he served as the President of George Mason University and of Thunderbird School of Global Management, and the former dean of IE Business School. His scholarship includes work on learning, management and leadership.
Joshua Daniel Wright is an American economist and legal scholar who served as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2013 to 2015. He has been a professor of law at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School since 2004, and is the executive director of its Global Antitrust Institute. At the time of his nomination, Wright was the fourth economist to serve as a member of the FTC.
Joshua Michael Blackman is an American lawyer who is employed as an associate professor of law at the South Texas College of Law where he focuses on constitutional law and the intersection of law and technology. He has authored three books and more than sixty law review articles.
John Patrick Schmitz is an American attorney and political advisor who served as Deputy White House Counsel to President George H.W. Bush (1989–1993), and Deputy Counsel to Vice President Bush during the Reagan Administration (1987–1989). Schmitz clerked for Antonin Scalia at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1983–1984).
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