Stanford Law School (SLS) is the law school of Stanford University,a private research university near Palo Alto,California. Established in 1893,Stanford Law had an acceptance rate of 6.28% in 2021,the second-lowest of any law school in the country. George Triantis currently serves as Dean.
The University of Chicago Law School is the law school of the University of Chicago,a private research university in Chicago,Illinois. 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 Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School. According to the Journal Citation Reports,the Harvard Law Review's 2015 impact factor of 4.979 placed the journal first out of 143 journals in the category "Law". It also ranks first in other ranking systems of law reviews. It is published monthly from November through June,with the November issue dedicated to covering the previous year's term of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The University of Michigan Law School is the law school of the University of Michigan,a public research university in Ann Arbor,Michigan. Founded in 1859,the school offers Master of Laws (LLM),Master of Comparative Law (MCL),Juris Doctor (JD),and Doctor of the Science of Law (SJD) degree programs.
Jenny S. Martínez is an American legal scholar and Stanford University's 14th provost. Stanford University President Richard Saller named her to the position in August 2023,effective October 1,2023. Martinez succeeded Persis Drell,who announced in May that she would step down as provost.
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 Virginia School of Law is the law school of the University of Virginia,a public research university in Charlottesville,Virginia.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &Sullivan,LLP is an American white shoe law firm headquartered in Los Angeles,California. The firm employs approximately 1,000 attorneys throughout 35 offices around the world.
The 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.
Barry Sullivan is a Chicago lawyer,Professor of Law and holder of the Cooney &Conway Chair in Advocacy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Deborah Lynn Rhode was an American jurist. She was the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the nation's most frequently cited scholar in legal ethics. From her early days at Yale Law School,her work revolved around questions of injustice in the practice of law and the challenges of identifying and redressing it. Rhode founded and led several research centers at Stanford devoted to these issues,including its Center on the Legal Profession,Center on Ethics and Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship;she also led the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford. She coined the term "The 'No-Problem' Problem".
Roger M. Milgrim is an American intellectual property lawyer,and the author of two multivolume law treatises:Milgrim on Trade Secrets and Milgrim on Licensing.
John B. Quinn is an American lawyer and one of the founding partners of the law firm known today as Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &Sullivan LLP. In 2011,Quinn was listed as one of America's "Most Influential Lawyers" by the National Law Journal. In a 2016 poll by Bloomberg Big Law Business,readers voted Quinn the country's “Most Famous Practicing Lawyer”at a top U.S. firm.
Raymond Lawrence Sullivan was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from December 20,1966,to January 19,1977.
Bernadette Meyler is the Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law at Stanford Law School,where she has taught since 2013. Meyler's scholarship focuses on British and American constitutional law,the history of the common law,and the intersection of law and the humanities.
Women in law describes the role played by women in the legal profession and related occupations,which includes lawyers,paralegals,prosecutors,judges,legal scholars,law professors and law school deans.
Andrew H. Schapiro is an American attorney and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic from September 30,2014,to January 20,2017. He was nominated by President Barack Obama March 6,2014 and confirmed by the Senate in July 2014. He was sworn in on August 14,2014,and presented his credentials to President MilošZeman on September 30,2014. He is currently a partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &Sullivan.
Christopher Landau is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Mexico from 2019 to 2021. He was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump.
