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 University of Virginia School of Law is the law school of the University of Virginia,a public research university in Charlottesville,Virginia.
John Calvin Jeffries,Jr. is a prominent law professor and was dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from 2001 to 2008.
Evan H. Caminker is a Dean Emeritus of the University of Michigan Law School. As Dean,he succeeded Jeffrey S. Lehman,who resigned to become president of Cornell University. Caminker was appointed Dean just as the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Law School's affirmative action admissions policies,which had been challenged in a lawsuit filed by the Center for Individual Rights.
The Raven Society is an honor society at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville,Virginia. It was founded in 1904 by William McCully James who named it in honor of the poem by Edgar Allan Poe,who attended the University of Virginia in 1826.
Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York University School of Law and a expert on constitutional law,the Supreme Court,the system of government in the United States,and legal issues concerning the structure of democracy,including election law. His scholarship focuses on public law and legal issues affecting democracy.
Richard Abraham Primus is an American legal scholar. He currently teaches United States constitutional law at the University of Michigan Law School,where he is Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law. In 2008,he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on the relationship between history and constitutional interpretation.
John Francis Manning is an American legal scholar who serves as the provost of Harvard University,and was the 13th Dean of Harvard Law School. He was previously the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS),where he is a scholar of administrative and constitutional law.
Paul G. Mahoney is an American law professor who worked as the dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from July 1,2008 to July 1,2016. He succeeded John Calvin Jeffries as Dean,and was succeeded by Risa L. Goluboff.
Henry Julian Abraham was a German-born American scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law. He was James Hart Professor of Government Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He was the author of 13 books,most in multiple editions,and more than 100 articles on the U.S. Supreme Court,judicial appointments,judicial process,and civil rights and liberties.
Eleanor Bontecou was an American lawyer,civil rights advocate,law professor and government official. Bontecou served as an attorney and investigator for both the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. War Department. She also worked as a professor at two universities. During her career,Bontecou achieved national fame for her work in the civil liberties and women's rights movements.
Stuart Alan Banner is an American legal historian and the Norman Abrams Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. Banner also directs UCLA's Supreme Court Clinic,which offers students the opportunity to work on real cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Heather Kristin Gerken is an American legal scholar who serves as the Sol &Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School,where she teaches election law and runs the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project. Since 2017,she has also served as the Dean of Yale Law School,being its first female dean.
James Edward Ryan is an American lawyer and professor. Since 2018,he has served as the ninth president of the University of Virginia. He previously served as the eleventh dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 2013 to 2018.
Lincoln W. Caplan,II is an American author,scholar,and journalist. He is the Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law and a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School.
Philip B. Kurland was an American legal scholar.
Mary Dewhurst Lewis is the Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History at Harvard University. She was co-president of the Society for French Historical Studies in 2012.
Cynthia Lisa Nicoletti is an American legal historian. She is an associate professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Dayna Bowen Matthew is a legal scholar,author,and academic administrator currently serving as dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Her legal scholarship has focused primarily on racial disparities in healthcare and civil rights law.
Leslie Carolyn Kendrick is an American legal scholar who serves as the dean of the University of Virginia School of Law,where she is also the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law.
