Columbia Law School is the law school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked in the top five schools in the United States since the establishment of the law school rankings by U.S. News &World Report in 1987. Columbia Law is especially well known for its strength in corporate law and its placement power in the nation's elite law firms.
Patricia Ann McGowan Wald was an American judge who served as the Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She was the first woman to be appointed to the D.C. Circuit and the first to serve as Chief Judge of that court. She served as a member of the American Bar Association's International Criminal Court Project and on the Council of the American Law Institute.
Joseph Halevi Horowitz Weiler is a South African-American academic,currently serving as European Union Jean Monnet Chair at New York University Law School and Senior Fellow of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,Harvard.
Philippe Joseph Sands,KC is a British and French lawyer at Matrix Chambers,and Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. A specialist in international law,he appears as counsel and advocate before many international courts and tribunals,including the International Court of Justice,the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea,the European Court of Justice,the European Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court.
Selden Palmer Spencer was an American lawyer and politician. A Republican,he was a United States Senator from Missouri.
Geoffrey Cornell Hazard Jr. was Trustee Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School,where he taught from 1994 to 2005,and the Thomas E. Miller Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law. He was also Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School.
Thomas W. Wälde,former United Nations (UN) Inter-regional Adviser on Petroleum and Mineral Legislation,was Professor &Jean-Monnet Chair at the Centre for Energy,Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP),Dundee.
Evan Jonathan Wallach is an American lawyer and Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. A former United States Judge of the United States Court of International Trade,he is one of the nation's foremost experts on war crimes and the law of war.
The Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto is made up of several litigators,academics,arbitrators,and mediators from the Greater Toronto Area. The group promotes arbitration as an alternative method of conflict resolution over litigation,especially in commercial suits. Members include commercial litigators from Toronto law firms including some of the Seven Sisters of Bay Street. Each member has experience and interest in promoting commercial Arbitration. The group dedicates its time to encouraging this form of Dispute resolution through seminars,papers,and talks.
Vikramaditya Khanna is a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School,and the founding and current editor of the India Law Abstracts and the White Collar Crime Abstracts on the Social Science Research Network.
Richard Joseph Sullivan is an American lawyer who serves as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was formerly a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2007 to 2018.
Stephanos Bibas is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before his appointment to the bench,Bibas was a professor of law and criminology and director of the Supreme Court clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a noted scholar of criminal procedure with expertise in criminal charging,plea bargaining,and sentencing. As a professor,Bibas examined how procedural rules written for jury trials have unintended consequences when cases involving jury trials are the exception,rather than the rule,with 95 percent of defendants pleading guilty. Bibas also studied the role of substantive goals such as remorse and apology in criminal procedure.
Leslie Gordon Fagen is an American litigator. He is a senior partner at the international law firm of Paul,Weiss,Rifkind,Wharton &Garrison LLP.
Peter Lindseth is Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law,at University of Connecticut.
Sandra Bermann is an American literary scholar. She is the Cotsen Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Her research and writing focuses on poetry,translation,and literary theory. She served as President of the American Comparative Literature Association from 2007 to 2009,and chaired Princeton’s Comparative Literature department from 1998 to 2010. In 2011,she succeeded Harvey S. Rosen as the Head of Whitman College. Bermann was succeeded by Claire F. Gmachl on July 1,2019.
Siegfried H. Elsing is a German business lawyer. He is senior partner Germany of the international law firm Orrick,Herrington &Sutcliffe LLP and honorary professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.
Roy Kalman Altman is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Michael Hun Park is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Sciences Po Law School is a graduate school created in 2009 inside Sciences Po in Paris,France.
JoséMartín y Pérez de Nanclares is a Spanish jurist. Currently,he is a judge of the General Court of the European Union,one of the two constituent courts of the Luxembourg Court,as well as a professor of Public International Law and International Relations at the University of Salamanca. He is also an associate member of the Hispano-Luso-American Institute of International Law. From 2012 to 2018 he was head of the International Legal Office of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,in charge of advising the General State Administration in all matters of international law. After briefly returning to teaching,he became director of the cabinet of the President of the Spanish Council of State,before his appointment for European judiciary. He was also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (2018-2019).
