legal scholar
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Edward H. Levi, a respected legal scholar who served as Ford’s attorney general, began working to mend the department from within, which included limiting the scope and power of the FBI.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
As a legal scholar in the 1970s, Jerome A. Cohen brought American ideas about law to Deng Xiaoping’s government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
When I first deployed during the troop surge in Iraq, I was a 20-year-old with just a high school diploma—no one could have mistaken me for a legal scholar.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2025
Harvard’s Jill Lepore is a triple threat: lauded historian, prominent legal scholar and New Yorker journalist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
As legal scholar John A. Powell once commented, only half in jest, “It’s actually better to be exploited than marginalized, in some respects, because if you’re exploited presumably you’re still needed.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
