The University of Iowa is a public research university in Iowa City,Iowa,United States. Founded in 1847,it is the oldest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 colleges offering more than 200 areas of study and seven professional degrees.
The University of San Diego School of Law is the law school of the University of San Diego,a private Roman Catholic research university in San Diego,California. Founded in 1954,the law school has held ABA approval since 1961. It joined the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 1966.
The University of California,Los Angeles School of Law is the law school of the University of California,Los Angeles.
Michael C. Dorf is an American law professor and a scholar of U.S. constitutional law. He is the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. In addition to constitutional law,Professor Dorf has taught courses in civil procedure and federal courts. He has written or edited three books,including No Litmus Test:Law Versus Politics in the Twenty-First Century,and Constitutional Law Stories,as well as scores of law review articles about American constitutional law. He is also a columnist for Findlaw.com and a regular contributor to The American Prospect. Dorf is a former law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the law school of Northwestern University,a private research university. The law school is located on the university's Chicago campus. Northwestern Law is considered part of the T14,an unofficial designation in the legal community as the best 14 law schools in the United States.
The USC Gould School of Law,located in Los Angeles,California,is the law school of the University of Southern California. The oldest law school in the Southwestern United States,USC Law traces its beginnings to 1896 and became affiliated with USC in 1900. It was named in honor of Judge James Gould in the mid-1960s.
Lawrence Eric Taylor was an American attorney and author. A graduate of the University of California,Berkeley and UCLA School of Law,Taylor was a public defender and criminal prosecutor in Los Angeles County before entering private practice. He currently heads a law firm in California that limits its practice to drunk driving defense. Both Taylor and his law firm are ranked "A-V" by the Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory. Taylor and his law firm have also been recognized by Super Lawyers magazine for the years 2004 through 2012 as being among the top 5 percent of DUI defense attorneys.
Barry Evan Axelrod is an American sports agent and lawyer who specializes in sports,entertainment and business law.
George P. Fletcher is the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University School of Law.
Kevin K. Washburn is an American law professor,former dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law,and current Dean of the University of Iowa College of Law. He served in the administration of President Barack Obama as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior from 2012 to 2016. Washburn has also been a federal prosecutor,a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice,and the General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission. Washburn is a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma,a federally-recognized Native American tribe.
Arizona v. Gant,556 U.S. 332 (2009),was a United States Supreme Court decision holding that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires law-enforcement officers to demonstrate an actual and continuing threat to their safety posed by an arrestee,or a need to preserve evidence related to the crime of arrest from tampering by the arrestee,in order to justify a warrantless vehicular search incident to arrest conducted after the vehicle's recent occupants have been arrested and secured.
Laurie Lou Levenson is a professor of law,William M. Rains Fellow,the David W. Burcham Chair in Ethical Advocacy,and Director of the Center for Legal Advocacy at Loyola Law School of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She teaches evidence,criminal law,criminal procedure,ethics,anti-terrorism,and white collar crime. She served as Loyola's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1996 to 1999. In addition to her teaching responsibilities,she is the Director of the Loyola Center for Ethical Advocacy. She received the 2003 Professor of the Year awards from both Loyola Law School and the Federal Judicial Center.
Stephen W. "Steve" White is a Judge of the Sacramento County Superior Court. He served as Presiding Judge for 2010 and 2011. He was appointed to the bench in 2003 by Governor Gray Davis. Between 1999 and 2003,he served as the Inspector General of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,overseeing California's prison system,and from 2001 to 2003 also served as Special Counsel to the Governor. From 1995 to 1999 he was a partner in the law firm Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann &Girard. He was the District Attorney of Sacramento County from 1989 to 1995. From 1983 to 1989 he was Chief Assistant Attorney General for California. From 1979 to 1983 he was Executive Director of the California District Attorneys Association. He was deputy and supervising deputy district attorney in Sacramento County from 1974 to 1979. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of California,Davis School of Law since 1996. He received his J.D. from the University of California,Davis School of Law in 1974.
Mark Stephen Scarberry is professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law. Much of his research and teaching focuses on bankruptcy and constitutional law. Scarberry is "a self-described evangelical Protestant."
Thomas Kevin Clancy is an American legal educator and lawyer. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Mississippi School of Law and lectures nationally on cyber crime and the Fourth Amendment,which regulates governmental searches and seizures. He previously served as the director of the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law,where he was a research professor. He took emeritus status on July 1,2014. Clancy received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame,and is a graduate of Vermont Law School.
Halim Dhanidina is an American lawyer and former judge from California. As of April 1,2022,is a partner at the criminal defense firm of Werksman Jackson &Quinn LLP in Los Angeles. He was a justice of the California Court of Appeal for the Second District. Appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench by Governor Jerry Brown in 2012,he is the first Muslim to ever be appointed judge in California. He is an Ismaili Shiite of Gujarati Indian heritage,his parents immigrating from Tanzania.
Robert Henry Rotstein is an American attorney and novelist currently based in Los Angeles,California. He has published four novels so far,including Corrupt Practices,Reckless Disregard,The Bomb Maker's Son and We,The Jury (2018). He is also currently a partner at the law firm of Mitchell Silberberg &Knupp LLP,focusing on entertainment law,intellectual property law and commercial litigation.
Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He formerly served as a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court from 2006 to 2020.
Margaret Raymond is an American legal scholar who is professor of law and was formerly the Fred W. and Vi Miller dean at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Her research interests include ethics and criminal law.
Janet Leigh Meik Wright is an American legal scholar who has taught community property,estate planning and non-profit institutions at the University of Southern California,University of California,Los Angeles,and University of California,Davis.
