National Jurist, The 20 Most Influential People in Legal Education:

These key players are major forces in shaping legal education. As in years past, in creating our list, we sought nominations from the nation’s law schools and added our own nominees. We then narrowed the list and asked every law school dean to rate them. Here are the top 20.

1. Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley)
2. Kellye Testy (President & CEO, Law School Admission Council)
3. Mark Alexander (Dean, Villanova; 2023 AALS President)
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine)
5. Robert Ahdieh (Dean, Texas A&M)
6. Aaron Taylor (Executive Director, AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence)
7. Brian Leiter (Professor, Chicago)
8. Meera Deo (Professor, Southwestern; Director, Law School Survey of Student Engagement)
9. Michael Hunter Schwartz (Dean, McGeorge)
10. Darby Dickerson (President & Dean, Southwestern)
11. Jenny Martinez (Provost, Stanford)
12. Eugene Volokh (Professor, UCLA)
13. Andrew Perlman (Dean, Suffolk)
14. Melanie Wilson (Dean, Washington & Lee; 2024 AALS President)
15. William Treanor (Dean & Executive Vice President, Georgetown)
16. Megan Carpenter (Dean, New Hampshire)
17. Peter “Bo” Rutledge (Dean, Georgia)
18. Anthony Varona (Dean, Seattle)
19. William Henderson (Professor, Indiana)
20. Jerry Organ (Professor, St. Thomas)

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• The 25 Most Influential People in Legal Education (2012)
• The 25 Most Influential People in Legal Education (2014)
• The 25 Most Influential People in Legal Education (2016)