Penn alumni are the (a) 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 (b) current or past presidents of over one hundred (100) 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.
Founders and leaders of academic institutions
Law professors and other 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 University 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 Anthony G. Amsterdam, University of Pennsylvania School of Law Class of 1960, Professor of Law at NYU Law School, served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Loftus Becker, University of Pennsylvania School of Law Class of 1969, where he served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 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 from 1971 to 1977. Janice R. Bellace, College Class of 1971 (where she received her B.A.) and Penn Law Class of 1974 (where she received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania) former professor of Legal Studies and director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the Wharton School of Business and 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) and 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 Howard University Law School and attorney-adviser in the United States Department of State's office of the legal adviser (1963 to 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 Jonathan Z. Cannon, Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Virginia School of Law; Deputy Administrator of the EPA Jesse Choper, University of Pennsylvania School of Law Class of 1960, graduating 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 George M. Cohen, Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Virginia School of Law Debra W. Denno, Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law at Fordham Law School Theodore Eisenberg, Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law at Cornell Law School Douglas Frenkel, Wharton School Class of 1968 (B.S. in economics) and University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1972 (J.D.); Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Marci Hamilton (born July 22, 1957) University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1988, served as (a) editor-in-chief of the Law Review and (b) 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.