Harvard Law School Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Notable people== ===Alumni=== {{Main|List of Harvard Law School alumni}} {{multiple image | align = right | direction = horizontal | header_align = center | caption_align = center | footer_align = left | image1 = President Barack Obama.jpg | width1 = 166 | caption1 = President [[Barack Obama]] | image2 = President Rutherford Hayes 1870 - 1880 Restored.jpg | width2 = 170 | caption2 = President [[Rutherford Hayes]] }} Harvard's prestige and large class size have enabled it to graduate a large number of distinguished alumni. [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], the 19th president of the United States, graduated from HLS. Additionally, [[Barack Obama]], the 44th [[president of the United States]], graduated from HLS and was president of the ''Harvard Law Review''. His wife, [[Michelle Obama]], is also a graduate of Harvard Law School. Past presidential candidates who are HLS graduates include [[Michael Dukakis]], [[Ralph Nader]] and [[Mitt Romney]]. Eight sitting [[United States Senate|U.S. senators]] are alumni of HLS: Romney, [[Ted Cruz]], [[Mike Crapo]], [[Tim Kaine]], [[Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician)|Jack Reed]], [[Chuck Schumer]], [[Tom Cotton]], and [[Mark Warner]]. Other legal and political leaders who attended HLS include former president of [[Taiwan]], [[Ma Ying-jeou]], and former vice president [[Annette Lu]]; the incumbent [[List of prime ministers of Luxembourg|Prime Minister of Luxembourg]], [[Luc Frieden]]; the incumbent [[Chief Justice of India]], [[Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud]]; the incumbent [[Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal|Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong]], [[Andrew Cheung Kui-nung]]; former [[Chief Justice|chief justice]] of the [[Republic of the Philippines]], [[Renato Corona]]; [[Chief Justice of Singapore]] [[Sundaresh Menon]]; former president of the [[World Bank Group]], [[Robert Zoellick]]; former [[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights|United Nations high commissioner for human rights]], [[Navanethem Pillay]]; the former [[president of Ireland]], [[Mary Robinson]]; [[Lady Arden]], [[Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]]; [[Solomon Areda Waktolla]], Judge of the [[United Nations Dispute Tribunal]], Judge of the Administrative Tribunal of the [[African Development Bank]] and Former Deputy Chief Justice of the [[Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia]]. He is also member of the [[Permanent Court of Arbitration]] at [[Hague]], [[Netherlands]]. [[Lobsang Sangay]] is the first elected [[sikyong]] of the [[Tibetan Government in Exile]]. In 2004, he earned a [[Doctor of Juridical Science|S.J.D.]] degree from Harvard Law School and was a recipient of the 2004 Yong K. Kim' 95 Prize of excellence for his dissertation "Democracy in Distress: Is Exile Polity a Remedy? A Case Study of Tibet's Government-in-exile". [[List of law schools attended by United States Supreme Court Justices|Sixteen]] of the school's graduates have served on the [[Supreme Court of the United States]], more than any other law school. Four of the current nine members of the court graduated from HLS: the [[Chief Justice of the United States|chief justice]], [[John G. Roberts|John Roberts]]; [[Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court|associate justices]] [[Neil Gorsuch]]; [[Ketanji Brown Jackson]]; and [[Elena Kagan]], who also served as the [[dean of Harvard Law School]], from 2003 to 2009. Past Supreme Court justices from Harvard Law School include [[Antonin Scalia]], [[David Souter]], [[Harry Blackmun]], [[William J. Brennan]], [[Louis Brandeis]], [[Felix Frankfurter]], [[Lewis F. Powell Jr.|Lewis Powell]] (LLM), and [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]], among others. [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]] attended Harvard Law School for two years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oyez.org/justices/ruth_bader_ginsburg|title=Ruth Bader Ginsburg|website=Oyez.org|access-date=December 17, 2017|archive-date=March 19, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070319002445/http://www.oyez.org/justices/ruth_bader_ginsburg/|url-status=live}}</ref> {{multiple image | align = right | direction = horizontal | header_align = center | caption_align = center | footer_align = left | image1 = LearnedHand1910a.jpg | width1 = 150 | caption1 = [[Learned Hand]] | image2 = Judge Henry Friendly.jpg | width2 = 137 | caption2 = [[Henry Friendly]] | image3 = Richard Posner at Harvard University.jpg | width3 = 156 | caption3 = [[Richard Posner]] }} Attorneys General [[Loretta Lynch]], [[Alberto Gonzales]], and [[Janet Reno]], among others, and noted federal judges [[Richard Posner]] of the [[Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals]], [[Michael Boudin]] of the [[First Circuit Court of Appeals]], [[Joseph A. Greenaway]] of the [[Third Circuit Court of Appeals]], [[Laurence Silberman]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals]], [[Lawrence VanDyke]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]], and [[Pierre Leval]] of the [[Second Circuit Court of Appeals]], among many other judicial figures, graduated from the school. The former Commonwealth solicitor general of Australia and current justice of the [[High Court of Australia]], [[Stephen Gageler]], [[Senior Counsel|senior counsel]] graduated from Harvard with an LL.M.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://11thfloor.com.au/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723224520/http://www.11thfloor.com.au/barristers-stephengageler.shtml|title=Personal Injury Lawyers in Sydney, NSW | 11th Floor|archivedate=July 23, 2008|website=11thfloor}}</ref> Many HLS alumni are leaders and innovators in the business world. Its graduates include the current senior chairman of [[Goldman Sachs]], [[Lloyd Blankfein]]; former chief executive officer of [[Reddit]], [[Ellen Pao]]; current chairman of the board and majority owner of [[National Amusements]] [[Sumner Redstone]]; current president and CEO of [[TIAA-CREF]], [[Roger W. Ferguson Jr.]]; current CEO and chairman of [[Toys "R" Us]], [[Gerald L. Storch]]; and former CEO of [[Delta Air Lines]], [[Gerald Grinstein]], among many others. Legal scholars who graduated from Harvard Law include [[Payam Akhavan]], [[Henry Friendly]], [[William P. Alford]], [[Rachel Barkow]], [[Yochai Benkler]], [[Alexander Bickel]], [[Andrew Burrows]], [[Erwin Chemerinsky]], [[Amy Chua]], [[Sujit Choudhry]], [[Robert C. Clark]], [[Hugh Collins]], [[James Duane (professor)]], [[I. Glenn Cohen]], [[Ronald Dworkin]], [[Christopher Edley Jr.]], [[Melvin A. Eisenberg]], [[Susan Estrich]], [[Jody Freeman]], [[Gerald Gunther]], [[Andrew T. Guzman]], [[Louis Henkin]], [[William A. Jacobson]], [[Harold Koh]], [[Richard J. Lazarus]], [[Arthur R. Miller]], [[Gerald L. Neuman]], [[Eric Posner]], [[Richard Posner]], [[John Mark Ramseyer]], [[Jed Rubenfeld]], [[Lewis Sargentich]], [[John Sexton]], [[Jeannie Suk]], [[Kathleen Sullivan (lawyer)|Kathleen Sullivan]], [[Cass Sunstein]], [[Laurence Tribe]], [[Edwin R. Keedy]], [[C. Raj Kumar]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/making-of-india-is-more-important/article8600626.ece|title='Making of India' is more important|first=Tabu|last=Agarwal|date=May 15, 2016|access-date=December 17, 2017|newspaper=The Hindu|archive-date=April 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404155033/https://www.thehindu.com/features/education/making-of-india-is-more-important/article8600626.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Tim Wu]]. In sports, [[David Otunga]] is the first and only Harvard Law alum to work for [[WWE]]. He is a two-time [[WWE Raw Tag Team Championship|WWE Tag Team Champion]]. Milton A. Rudin, a chief counsel and entertainment lawyer was a graduate of HLS in 1946, he had been working for 52 years with clients that included [[Marilyn Monroe]], [[Lucille Ball]], [[Elizabeth Taylor]], [[Jackson family|the Jackson family]], and [[Frank Sinatra]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=HLS News |title=In Memoriam β Summer 2000 |url=https://hls.harvard.edu/today/memoriam-summer-2000/ |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=Harvard Law School |language=en-us}}</ref> ===Faculty=== {{Div col|colwidth=20em}} * [[William P. Alford]] * [[Deborah Anker]] * [[Yochai Benkler]] * [[Robert C. Clark]] * [[I. Glenn Cohen]] * [[Susan P. Crawford]] * [[Noah Feldman]] * [[Roger Fisher (academic)|Roger Fisher]] * [[William W. Fisher]] * [[Jody Freeman]] * [[Charles Fried]] * [[Gerald Frug]] * [[Nancy Gertner]] * [[Mary Ann Glendon]] * [[Jack Goldsmith]] * [[Lani Guinier]] * [[David Alan Hoffman]] * [[Morton Horwitz]] * [[Vicki C. Jackson]] * [[David Kennedy (jurist)|David Kennedy]] * [[Duncan Kennedy (legal philosopher)|Duncan Kennedy]] * [[Randall Kennedy]] * [[Michael Klarman]] * [[Richard J. Lazarus]] * [[Lawrence Lessig]] * [[Kenneth W. Mack]] * [[John F. Manning]] * [[Frank Michelman]] * [[Martha Minow]] * [[Robert Harris Mnookin]] * [[Ashish Nanda]] * [[Charles Nesson]] * [[Gerald L. Neuman]] * [[Ruth Okediji]] * [[Charles Ogletree]] * [[John Mark Ramseyer]] * [[Mark J. Roe]] * [[Lewis Sargentich]] * [[Robert Sitkoff]] * [[Jeannie Suk]] * [[Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.]] * [[Cass Sunstein]] * [[Laurence Tribe]] * [[Mark Tushnet]] * [[Rebecca Tushnet]] * [[Roberto Unger]] * [[Adrian Vermeule]] * [[Steven M. Wise]] * [[Jonathan Zittrain]] {{div col end}} ====Former faculty==== {{Div col|colwidth=20em}} * [[Paul M. Bator]] * [[Joseph Henry Beale]] * [[Derrick Bell]] * [[Derek Bok]] * [[Stephen Breyer]] * [[Zechariah Chafee]] * [[Abram Chayes]] * [[Vern Countryman]] * [[Archibald Cox]] * [[Alan Dershowitz]] * [[Christopher Edley Jr.]] * [[Felix Frankfurter]] * [[Paul A. Freund]] * [[Lon Fuller]] * [[John Chipman Gray]] * [[Erwin Griswold]] * [[Lani Guinier]] * [[Henry M. Hart Jr.]] * [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]] * [[Wendy Jacobs]] * [[Elena Kagan]] * [[Christopher Columbus Langdell]] * [[Daniel Meltzer]] * [[Soia Mentschikoff]] * [[Arthur R. Miller]] * [[Elisabeth Owens]] * [[John Palfrey]] * [[Roscoe Pound]] * [[John Rawls]] * [[Joseph Story]] * [[Kathleen Sullivan (lawyer)|Kathleen Sullivan]] * [[Elizabeth Warren]] * [[Joseph H. H. Weiler]] * [[Samuel Williston]] {{div col end}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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