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

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

“I can foresee countries slapping travel and trade restrictions on the U.S. It’ll affect millions of Americans,” said Lawrence Gostin, a legal scholar at Georgetown University.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 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