The Hoover Institution is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty,free enterprise,and limited government. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University,it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. It is widely described as conservative,although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan.
The Walter A. Haas School of Business is the business school of the University of California,Berkeley,a public research university in Berkeley,California. It was the first business school at a public university in the United States.
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. Paul Brest currently serves as Interim Dean.
The University of Chicago Law School is the law school of the University of Chicago,a private research university in Chicago,Illinois. It is consistently ranked among the best and most prestigious 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 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,commonly known as the Hewlett Foundation,is a private foundation,established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Redington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1966. The Hewlett Foundation awards grants to a variety of liberal and progressive causes.
John Hart Ely was an American legal scholar. He was a professor of law at Yale Law School from 1968 to 1973,Harvard Law School from 1973 to 1982,Stanford Law School from 1982 to 1996,and at the University of Miami Law School from 1996 until his death. From 1982 until 1987,he was the 9th dean of Stanford Law School.
Akhil Reed Amar is an American legal scholar known for his expertise in constitutional law and criminal procedure. He holds the position of Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University,and is an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University. In 2008,a Legal Affairs poll placed Amar among the top 20 contemporary American legal thinkers.
Erwin Chemerinsky is an American legal scholar known for his studies of 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.
Stephen Macedo is an American political scientist who serves as the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at Princeton University,where he was the former director at the University Center for Human Values. Macedo served as the president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy from 2018 until 2021.
Constitutional theory is an area of constitutional law that focuses on the underpinnings of constitutional government. It overlaps with legal theory,constitutionalism,philosophy of law and democratic theory. It is not limited by country or jurisdiction.
Kent D. Syverud is the 12th Chancellor and President of Syracuse University. He began his term of office on January 13,2014. He was previously the dean at Washington University School of Law and Vanderbilt University Law School.
Joseph Tyree Sneed III was an American jurist who served as United States Deputy Attorney General and then as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for nearly 35 years until his death. He was the father of Carly Fiorina,a former CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
John J. "Jack" Farley III is a retired judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
Paul Brest is an American scholar of constitutional law,a former president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,and a former dean of Stanford Law School. He is an influential theorist on the role of non-profit organizations in society,and is widely credited with coining the name originalism to describe a particular approach to interpreting the United States Constitution.
Robert Harris Mnookin is an American lawyer,author,and the Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He focuses largely on dispute resolution,negotiation,and arbitration and was one of the primary co-arbitrators that resolved a 7-year software rights dispute between IBM and Fujitsu in the 1980s. Mnookin has been the Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School since 1994.
Danilo Lardizabal Concepcion,often referred to by his nickname DaniCon,is a Filipino lawyer who served as the 21st president of the University of the Philippines. Prior to his appointment as UP president,he was the dean and a professor of law at the UP College of Law and the Executive Director of the UP Bonifacio Global City Campus. He is husband to lawyer Gaby Concepcion.
Barbara Helen Fried is an American lawyer and professor emeritus at Stanford Law School. She is also the mother of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
Alan Joseph Bankman is an American legal scholar and psychologist. He is the Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School. He was also employed at FTX,the cryptocurrency company founded by his son,Sam Bankman-Fried,who is an entrepreneur and convicted felon. His tenure at FTX lasted until the company's bankruptcy and subsequent collapse in 2022.
Carole Hélène Lewis is a South African retired judge and legal academic. She served in the Supreme Court of Appeal from 2003 until her retirement in 2019. Before that,she was a judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division. Until her appointment to the bench in November 1999,she was a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand,where she was dean of the School of Law from 1993 to 1998.
Hugh Corder is an emeritus professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town. He served as UCT's youngest and longest-serving Chair of Public Law from 1987 to 2020.
