legal scholar
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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
But even when an individual is not convicted, the process of defending against charges can itself be a form of punishment, as renowned legal scholar Malcolm Feeley pointed out almost 50 years ago.
From Salon • Oct. 11, 2025
Carl Schmitt, a German legal scholar, was a supporter of the Nazi Party who sought to justify Hitler's policies in his writings on legal and political theory.
From BBC • May 30, 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
