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Selected Alumni of The Yale Law Journal
Editors who served during the nearly 120 years of The Yale Law Journal have gone on to careers in every conceivable field, from setting milestones on the Supreme Court and at the helms of virtually all of the nation's leading law schools, to the public spheres of the United States Senate and reality television. The following are only a selection of the Journal's ever-growing alumni ranks.
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JUDICIARY
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| Sonia M. Sotomayor |
U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice
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(Editor, '79) |
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| Samuel A. Alito |
U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice
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(Editor, '75) |
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| Potter Stewart |
U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice
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(Comment Editor, '41) |
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| Abe Fortas |
U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice
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(Editor-in-Chief, '33) |
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Brett M. Kavanaugh |
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
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(Notes Editing Editor, '90) |
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| Steven M. Colloton |
U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit |
(Articles Editor, '88) |
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Robert A. Katzmann
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U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit
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(Article & Book Review Editor, '80)
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Guido Calabresi
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U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit
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(Note Editor, '58)
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| Jon O. Newman |
U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit |
(Note and Comment Editor, '56) |
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| Patricia M. Wald |
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit;
Int'l Crim. Trib. (Former Yugoslavia) |
(Editor, '51) |
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| Victor Marrero |
U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y. |
(Editor, '66) |
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| GOVERNMENT |
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Neil Kumar Katyal
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Principal Deputy U.S. Solicitor General
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(Symposium Editor, '95)
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| Alex M. Azar II |
Deputy Secretary & General Counsel,
U.S. Dep't of Health and Human Services |
(Executive Committee, '90) |
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| Beth S. Brinkmann |
Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
U.S. Dep't of Justice |
(Note Editor, '80) |
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| Seth P. Waxman |
U.S. Solicitor General |
(Managing Editor, '77) |
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John R. Bolton II
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Permanent Representative to the United Nations
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(Editor, '74)
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| Reed E. Hundt |
Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
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(Book Review Editor, '74) |
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| Robert B. Reich |
U.S. Secretary of Labor |
(Article Editor, '73) |
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| Stephen J. Hadley |
U.S. National Security Advisor |
(Note & Comment Editor, '72) |
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| John Shattuck |
U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic |
(Projects Editor, '70) |
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| Michael B. Mukasey |
U.S. Attorney General |
(Editor, '67) |
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| Walter E. Dellinger III |
Acting U.S. Solicitor General |
(Editor, '66) |
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| Norbert Schlei |
Assistant Attorney General &
Chief, Office of General Counsel, Dep't of Justice
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(Editor-in-Chief, '56) |
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| Whitney N. Seymour, Jr. |
U.S. Attorney, S.D.N.Y. |
(Editor, '50) |
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| Nicholas deB. Katzenbach |
U.S. Attorney General |
(Article Editor, '47) |
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| Roswell L. Gilpatric |
Deputy Secretary, U.S. Dep't of Defense |
(Editor, '30) |
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| Herbert Brownell |
U.S. Attorney General |
(Editor-in-Chief, '27) |
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| Robert E. Cooper, Jr. |
Attorney General of TN |
(Managing Editor, '83) |
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| Richard Blumenthal |
Attorney General of CT |
(Editor-in-Chief, '73) |
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Michael F. Bennet
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U.S. Senator (D-Colorado) |
(Editor-in-Chief, '93) |
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Arlen Specter
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U.S. Senator (D-Pennsylvania) |
(Editor, '56) |
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Raymond E. Baldwin
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U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut) |
(Book Review Editor, '21) |
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| Leonard Horwin |
Mayor, Beverly Hills, CA |
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(Editor-in-Chief, '36) |
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LAW SCHOOL DEANS
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| In Service as of 2010 |
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Michelle J. Anderson
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City University of New York Law School
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(Notes Editor, '94)
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| David M. Schizer |
Columbia Law School
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(Executive Editor, '93) |
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| Nora V. Demleitner |
Hofstra School of Law
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(Symposium Editor, '92) |
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Bruce P. Smith
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University of Illinois Law School
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(Senior Editor, '92)
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| Martin J. Katz |
University of Denver Law School |
(Executive Committee, '91) |
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| Evan H. Caminker |
Michigan Law School
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(Senior Editor, '86) |
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| William M. Treanor |
Fordham Law School |
(Article & Book Review Editor, '85) |
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| Paul G. Mahoney |
University of Virginia Law School |
(Senior Editor, '84) |
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| Michael H. Schill |
UCLA Law School |
(Editor, '84)
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| Davison M. Douglas |
William & Mary Law School
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(Notes Editor, '83) |
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| Richard L. Revesz |
New York University Law School |
(Editor-in-Chief, '83) |
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| David Wippman |
University of Minnesota Law School |
(Editor-in-Chief, '82) |
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| Frederick M. Lawrence |
George Washington University Law School |
(Editor, '80) |
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| Michael A. Fitts |
University of Pennsylvania Law School |
(Editor, '79)
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| Martha L. Minow |
Harvard Law School
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(Article & Book Review Editor, '79) |
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| Robert C. Post |
Yale Law School
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(Note Editor, '77)
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| T. Alexander Aleinikoff |
Georgetown Law Center |
(Note Editor, '77) |
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| Joan G. Wexler |
Brooklyn Law School |
(Article Editor, '74)
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Aviam Soifer
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University of Hawai'i Law School
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(Editor, '72)
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Leonard P. Strickman
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Florida International University College of Law |
(Editor, '65)
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Former Deans
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Anthony Kronman
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Yale Law School
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(Editor, '75)
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| Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. |
Columbia Law School
President of Yale University |
(Note & Comment Editor, '65)
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John Hart Ely
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Stanford Law School
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(Note & Comment Editor, '63)
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Abraham S. Goldstein
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Yale Law School
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(Articles Editor, '49)
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Louis H. Pollak
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Yale Law School & U.S. District Court Judge (E.D. Pa.)
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(Editor-in-Chief, '48)
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| Eugene V. Rostow |
Yale Law School |
(Editor-in-Chief, '37) |
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Charles E. Clark
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Yale Law School
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(Secretary, '13)
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LEGAL ACADEMIA
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L. Lawrence Lessig, III
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Stanford Law School
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(Senior Editor, '89)
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| Ian Ayres |
Yale Law School |
(Article & Book Review Editor, '86) |
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| Reva Siegel |
Yale Law School |
(Editor, '85) |
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Pamela S. Karlan
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Stanford Law School
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(Article & Book Review Editor, '84) |
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Akhil R. Amar
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Yale Law School
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(Editor, '84)
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| Steven G. Calabresi |
Northwestern University Law School &
Co-Founder, The Federalist Society
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(Note & Topics Editor, '83) |
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| Samuel Issarachoff |
NYU Law School |
(Editor, '83) |
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| Jonathan R. Macey |
Yale Law School |
(Article & Book Review Editor, '82) |
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| Randall Kennedy |
Harvard Law School |
(Note & Topics Editor, '82) |
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| Roberta Romano |
Yale Law School |
(Note Editor, '80) |
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| Stephen L. Carter |
Yale Law School |
(Note Editor, '78) |
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| William Eskridge |
Yale Law School |
(Note Editor, '77) |
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| Paul D. Gewirtz |
Yale Law School |
(Note Editor, '70) |
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Bruce A. Ackerman
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Yale Law School
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(Editor, '67) |
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| Peter L. Strauss |
Columbia Law School |
(Editor-in-Chief, '63) |
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Alan M. Dershowitz
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Harvard Law School
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(Editor-in-Chief, '62)
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| Charles A. Reich |
Yale Law School |
(Editor-in-Chief, '52) |
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| Karl Llewellyn |
Columbia Law School, drafter of Uniform Commercial Code |
(Editor-in-Chief, '19) |
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HIGHER EDUCATION
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Yona A. Reiss
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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
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(Senior Editor, '92) |
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| Austin Sarat |
Amherst College |
(Senior Editor, '88) |
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Russell K. Osgood
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President, Grinnell College |
(Articles Editor, '74) |
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Nancy Bekavac
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President, Scripps College |
(Book Reviews Editor, '73)
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MEDIA, PUBLISHING,
& THE ARTS
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Lan Cao
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Author |
(Notes Editor, '87) |
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Richard Cotton
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Executive VP/General Counsel, NBC Universal |
(Executive Editor, '69) |
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| Michael D. Barone |
Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report |
(Publication Editor, '69) |
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Jeff Greenfield
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Senior Political Correspondent, CBS News |
(Note & Comment Editor, '66) |
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| Langdon Van Norden |
Chairman, The Metropolitan Opera |
(Editor-in-Chief, '40) |
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| NONPROFIT |
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| Kenneth Roth |
Executive Director, Human Rights Watch |
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(Editor, '79) |
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| CORPORATE & FINANCE |
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| Ellen Porges |
Assistant General Counsel, Goldman Sachs |
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(Managing Editor, '82) |
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| Madeleine Kleiner |
Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Hilton Hotels Corporation |
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(Note & Project Editor, '76) |
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| Randall K.C. Kau |
Founder, XE Capital Management, Zurich Capital Markets |
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(Editor-in-Chief, '74) |
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| PRACTITIONERS |
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| Carla Christofferson |
O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Los Angeles),
Co-Owner, Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA)
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(Note Editor, '92) |
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| Emmet T. Flood |
Williams & Connolly LLP (Washington, D.C.) |
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(Exec. Committee Coordinator, '91) |
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| Robert J. Giuffra |
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (New York) |
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(Articles Editor, '87) |
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| Lewis J. Liman |
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP (New York) |
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(Articles Editor, '87) |
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| Craig M. Wasserman |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP (New York) |
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(Editor, '86) |
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| Ruth E. Harlow |
Linklaters LLP (New York) |
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(Senior Editor, '86) |
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| Robert A. Long |
Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, D.C.) |
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(Note Editor, '85) |
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| C. Cabell Chinnis |
Mayer Brown LLP (Palo Alto) |
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(Managing Editor, 84) |
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| Michele S. Hirshman |
Paul, Weiss LLP (New York) |
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(Articles & Book Review Editor, '83) |
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| Donald J. Toumey |
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (New York) |
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(Articles & Book Review Editor, '81) |
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| Paul M. Smith |
Jenner & Block LLP (Washington, D.C.) |
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(Editor-in-Chief, '79) |
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| Sheldon S. Adler |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (New York) |
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(Editor, '79) |
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| Gandolfo (Vince) DiBlasi |
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (New York) |
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(Editor, '78) |
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| David E. Kendall |
Williams & Connolly LLP (Washington, D.C.) |
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(Note & Comment Editor, '71) |
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| Charles M. Nathan |
Latham & Watkins LLP (New York, NY) |
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(Editor, '65) |
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Lloyd N. Cutler
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WilmerHale (Wilmer Cutler & Pickering LLP) (Washington, D.C.)
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(Editor-in-Chief, '62)
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