The University of Chicago Law School is the law school of the University of Chicago,a private research university in Chicago,Illinois. It is ranked among the best 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 law school has the third highest percentage of recent graduates clerking for federal judges after Stanford Law School and Yale Law School.
Douglas Howard Ginsburg is an American lawyer,jurist,and academic who serves as a senior judge on the U.S. 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 2001 until 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.
Cass Robert Sunstein is an American legal scholar known for his work in constitutional law,administrative law,environmental law,and behavioral economics. He is also The New York Times best-selling author of The World According to Star Wars (2016) and Nudge (2008). He was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012.
Sally Katzen is an American lawyer,legal scholar,and government official. Katzen was a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project's Agency Review Working Group responsible for the Executive Office of the President and government operations agencies,and held White House positions in the Clinton administration,including as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Richard L. Revesz is an American lawyer and academic. He is the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. During his government employment,he is on leave as the AnBryce Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. He served as dean of the New York University School of Law from 2002 to 2013,and as the director of the American Law Institute from 2014 to 2023.
Susan Elaine Dudley is an American academic who served as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA),Office of Management and Budget in the administration of George W. Bush. As such,Dudley was the top regulatory official at the White House.
Frederick Whitten Peters is a District of Columbia lawyer and senior level public official. His law practice specializes in civil and criminal litigation including contract fraud,antitrust,tax and security cases. He has served in several key positions within the U.S. federal government,including as Secretary of the Air Force.
Midnight regulations are United States federal government regulations created by executive branch agencies during the transition period of an outgoing president's administration.
Thomas W. Hazlett is the Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University where he also directs the Information Economy Project.
Timothy Belcher Dyk is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Boris Bershteyn is an Obama administration official who until June 2013 had served as acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He previously served from 2011 to 2012 as general counsel for the federal Office of Management and Budget. Prior to his work at the Office of Management and Budget,he served as an Associate White House Counsel.
Larry Downes is an Internet industry analyst and author on business strategies and information technology. Downes is best known for his first book,Unleashing the Killer App:Digital Strategies for Market Dominance,which focuses on the potential of products and services for dramatically changing business. Unleashing the Killer App was a New York Times bestseller,sold over 200,000 copies,and was named by the Wall Street Journal one of the five most important books on business and the Internet ever published.
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 commissioner of the FTC.
C. Scott Hemphill is a legal academic whose scholarship focuses on intellectual property law and antitrust law. He is currently a Professor of Law at New York University Law School,where he has taught since 2015. Previously,Hemphill was a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
Kellogg,Hansen,Todd,Figel &Frederick PLLC is an American law firm based in Washington,DC. The "uber-elite,D.C.-based litigation boutique" was founded in 1993 by three former Harvard Law School classmates,Michael K. Kellogg,Peter W. Huber,and Mark C. Hansen.
Neomi Jehangir Rao is an American jurist who serves as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019,having served in the Trump Administration from 2017 to 2019 as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Philip Jacob Weiser is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 39th Colorado Attorney General,since 2019. He is the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications,Executive Director and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law,Technology,and Entrepreneurship,and Dean Emeritus at the University of Colorado Law School. He previously served in the Obama and Clinton Administrations in the White House and Justice Department. A member of the Democratic Party,he was elected Attorney General for the State of Colorado in the 2018 election,defeating Republican George Brauchler on November 6,2018. He was re-elected in 2022.
Jonathan B. Wiener is the William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School,Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment,and Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy,at Duke University. He is a leading scholar of regulation and risk analysis.
Paul J. Ray is an American attorney and government official who served as the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) from 2020 to 2021.
Sharon Block is an American attorney,government official,labor policy advisor and law professor who served during the Biden Administration as the Associate Administrator delegated the duties of the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from January 20,2021 to February 1,2022. During the Obama Administration,Block served on the National Labor Relations Board and in the United States Department of Labor and the White House. She currently serves as a Professor of Practice and the executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School.
