The Top 10 Most Influential Lawyers In The World

The Top 10 Most Influential Lawyers In The World

 

In the ranking of the most influential personalities unveiled by Time Magazine are several lawyers. Who are they ?

Five women and five men (parity oblige!), From all over the world, are included in the ranking of the 10 most influential lawyers for the year 2013, unveiled by Time Magazine and taken up by Above the law.

 

1) Me Joaquim Barbosa

 

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Me Barbosa is 58 years old, he is the first black president of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil. At the last Carnival in the country, his face was the most popular mask!

 

 

After studying law at the University of Brasilia and at the University Panthéon-Assas in France, he taught as an assistant professor at the University of Rio de Janeiro and worked as a researcher at the Colombia Law School. and at UCLA.

 

2) Me Joe Biden

 

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47th and current Vice-President of the United States, Me Biden graduated in history and political science in 1965 at the University of Delaware, before pursuing graduate studies at the Faculty of Law of Syracuse University.

In 1972, he became the sixth youngest senator in the country. From then on, he will never stop being re-elected.

 

3) Me Palaniappan Chidambaram

 

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Behind this name, which is complicated to pronounce, hides an Indian socialist, member of the Congress Party and Minister of Finance from 1996 to 1998 and from 2004 to the end of 2008.

 

The business lawyer has also been India’s Minister of the Interior since November 2008. He studied law in Madras, and obtained his MBA from Harvard.

 

4) Me Chris Christie

 

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This lawyer by training (he studied law at Seton Hall School) is a member of the Republican Party. Since January 2010, he has been the governor of the US state of New Jersey.

 

Previously, he served as the United States Attorney General for the same state.

 

It is rumored that he would make a good candidate for the next US presidential election in 2016 ...

 

5) Me Vrinda Grover

 

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The first female lawyer to appear in the ranking is Indian. She works for human rights, and in particular for the rights of women and laws governing rape.

 

She studied law at Delhi University and NYU Law School and acts as a trustee at the Center for Social Justice.

 

6) Me Kamala Harris

 

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In addition to being the current Attorney General of California, Ms. Harris, 48, a lawyer and graduate of UC Hastings College of Law, has been described by Obama as "the most beautiful attorney in the land."

 

She is the first African-Asian American woman to don the prosecutor's costume. Rumors even predict his future appointment to the Supreme Court ...

 

7) Me Valérie Jarrett

 

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Chicago lawyer and businesswoman, Mtre Jarrett, 56, is one of Obama's closest advisers… Born in Iran, she moved to the United States when she was still a child.

 

Before ending up in the White House as an adviser on public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, she studied law at Stanford and Michigan where she obtained her JurisDoctor.

 

8) Me Xi Jinping

 

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Since March 2013, this law graduate from Tsinghua University has been the President of the People's Republic of China.

 

Since 2012, he is also general secretary and chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China.

 

9) Me Elena Kagan

 

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This single, childless lawyer is a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.

 

This graduate in history from Princeton University, philosophy from Oxford University, and law from Harvard University, displays an exemplary CV: General Counsel for the United States between 2009 and 2010, Assistant to the Legal Counsel of the White House and vice-chair of the Home Policy Council from 1995 to 1999, under the Clinton administration, and dean of Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2009.

 

10) Me Suzana Martinez

 

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At 43, Me Martinez is the 31st and current governor of New Mexico. She is the first woman to hold such a position. Also, the one who was previously a district attorney in New Mexico, is also the first Hispanic to accede to such office.

 

BONUS: let us also note among the most influential lawyers in the world, the flagship couple formed by Michelle and Barack Obama, both graduates in law.

 

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The current President of the United States spent three years at Harvard Law School before teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago