Penn alumni are the founders of a number of colleges, as well as eight medical schools, including New York University Medical School and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; and current or past presidents of over one hundred universities and colleges, including Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Cornell University, University of California system, University of Texas system, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, Bowdoin College and Williams College.

Academic administration

Law professors and legal academics Khaled Abou El Fadl: professor of law at UCLA School of Law; scholar of Islamic law, immigration, human rights, international and national security law, clerked for Arizona Supreme Court Justice James Moeller, previously taught Islamic law at the University of Texas School of Law at Austin, Yale Law School and Princeton UniversityUCLA School of Law Faculty Profile: Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl Azizah Y. al-Hibri: professor of law, emerita, at T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond; founding editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy; founder and president of KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights; a Fulbright scholar who is a member of the advisory board of various organizations, including the Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life, the Pluralism Project Harvard University, and Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (PBS); appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom"President Obama Appoints Professor al-Hibri to U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom", USCIRF, June 8, 2011. Retrieved on January 16, 2015. Anthony G. Amsterdam (University of Pennsylvania School of Law Class of 1960): professor of Law at NYU Law School, editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Loftus Becker (University of Pennsylvania School of Law Class of 1969): editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review,"The University of Pennsylvania Law Review: 150 Years of History", Edwin J. Greenlee, University of Pennsylvania Law Review Vol. 150, No. 6 (Jun., 2002), pp. 1875-1904 emeritus professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he teaches criminal law, constitutional law, and a seminar on the Supreme Court; law clerk for Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., of the Supreme Court of the United States; taught at the University of Minnesota Law School 1971–1977 Janice R. Bellace (B.A. College Class of 1971, J.D. Penn Law Class of 1974): former professor of Legal Studies and director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the Wharton School of Business; founding president of Singapore Management University; also holds an M.Sc. in industrial relations from the London School of Economics, which she attended as a Thouron Scholar Francis Bohlen (1868–1942) (Penn Law Class of 1892, bachelor's degree in Law; Class of 1930, Doctor's Degree in Law): Algernon Sydney Biddle professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Goler Teal Butcher (Penn Law LLM Class of 1958): professor at Howard University Law School and attorney-adviser in the United States Department of State's office of the legal adviser (1963–1971) as the first black person to serve in the legal unit of the State Department legal affairs office Robert Butkin: dean of the University of Tulsa College of Law; state treasurer of Oklahoma Jesse Choper (University of Pennsylvania School of Law Class of 1960): graduated Order of the Coif in 1960 while teaching courses at the Wharton School; clerked for Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Supreme Court of the United States; former professor at the University of Minnesota Law School; Earl Warren Professor of Public Law and dean (1982–1992) at the University of California, Berkeley Law School Douglas Frenkel (Wharton School Class of 1968 B.S. in economics; University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1972 J.D.):"DOUGLAS NORMAN FRENKEL" Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Marci Hamilton (born 1957) (University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1988): editor-in-chief of the Law Review; law clerk for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States and Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; former Paul R. Verkuil Chair of Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; presently widely regarded scholar in constitutional law and a Fox Family Pavilion Distinguished Scholar in the Fox Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania and the CEO and Academic Director at CHILD USA, an interdisciplinary think tank to prevent child abuse and neglect Noyes Leech (1921–2010) (University of Pennsylvania College Class of 1943 BA, and University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1948):"Noyes E. Leech" served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review; reestablished the Mitchell Club as a diverse group of fellow legal students; Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law and the William A. Schnader Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School A. Leo Levin (1919–2015) (University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1942): editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review;A. Leo Levin: A Fond Tribute to the Master of the Classroom 148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1999-2000The Daily Pennsylvania An. A. Leo Levin New Vice Provost - Pdf Leon Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School 1949–2014;"STATEMENT OF A. LEO LEVIN ON THE NOMINATION OF HONORABLE ANTHONY KENNEDY TO BE ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES," SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, HONORABLE JOSEPH BIDEN Chairman, December 16, 1987Obituaries – The Pennsylvania Gazette director of the Federal Judicial Center 1977–1987; vice provost of the University of Pennsylvania; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Curtis Reitz (born c. 1930): Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Louis B. Schwartz (1913–2003): law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School James Wilson (1742–1798): first professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania, 1789–1798, the only person who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and served as a Supreme Court justice, during the Constitutional Convention, successfully proposed a unitary executive elected through an electoral college system and negotiated the Three-Fifths Compromise, delivered a series of lectures on law to President George Washington, Vice President John Adams, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, and numerous members of Congress with Wilson's first lecture on law being given to aforementioned government leaders on December 15, 1789 Bernard Wolfman (1924–2011): dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and its Gemmill Professor of Tax Law and Tax Policy, Fessenden Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School

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