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Faculty

The 2010 student/faculty ratio was 8.8 to 1.

Selected prominent Northwestern Law faculty, past and present, include:

  • David E. Van Zandt, former dean of Northwestern University School of Law
  • Robert Bennett, constitutional scholar, contract law scholar, and founder of the Chicago Council for Lawyers.
  • Steven Calabresi, constitutional scholar and Founder and Chairman of the Federalist Society
  • Anthony D'Amato, international legal scholar, European Court of Human Rights litigator
  • Bernardine Dohrn, clinical professor, leader of the 1960s-70s radical leftist organization Weatherman
  • Andrew Koppelman, noted legal scholar on same-sex marriage
  • Leon Green, former dean; renowned for pioneering work in the law of torts, especially causation and injuries to relations
  • Steven Lubet, nationally recognized trial advocacy expert and director of the Fred Bartlit Center for Trial Strategy
  • Charles T. McCormick, expert on evidence, damages, and federal court procedure; writings include the classic hornbooks, Handbook on the Law of Damages (1935) and Handbook on the Law of Evidence (1954).
  • John O. McGinnis, renowned expert on trade law and one of nation's leading scholars in the field of Constitutional Law.
  • Dawn Clark Netsch, prominent member of the Democratic Party and the first woman to be nominated by a major political party to run for Governor of Illinois.
  • Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, founder of the movement for "sociological jurisprudence"
  • Stephen Presser, professor of legal history and jurisprudence
  • Martin Redish, nationally renowned authority on the subjects of federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, and the First Amendment
  • David S. Ruder, former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
  • David Scheffer, international law and war crimes expert who served as the first United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
  • Marshall Shapo, expert on tort law and author of The Law of Products Liability
  • James B. Speta, expert in telecommunications and Internet policy
  • Charles Taylor, internationally renowned political philosopher, Royal Society of Canada fellow, British Academy fellow, member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  • John Henry Wigmore, the "father of modern evidence" and author of Treatise on Evidence

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