List of University of Pennsylvania academics

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.

• 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^[13]
• 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^[14]
• Anthony G. Amsterdam, University of Pennsylvania School of Law Class of 1960,^[15] Professor of Law at NYU Law School, served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review^[16]
• 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,^[17] 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;^[18] 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^[19][20]
• 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^[21]
• 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^[22] to serve in the legal unit of the State Department legal affairs office^[23]
• Robert Butkin, Dean of the University of Tulsa College of Law; State Treasurer of Oklahoma^[24]
• Jonathan Z. Cannon, Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Virginia School of Law; Deputy Administrator of the EPA^[25]
• 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;^[26] clerked for Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Supreme Court of the United States;^[27] former professor at the University of Minnesota Law School;^[28] Earl Warren Professor of Public Law and Dean (1982 - 1992) at the University of California, Berkeley Law School^[29]
• George M. Cohen, Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Virginia School of Law^[30]
• Debra W. Denno, Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law at Fordham Law School^[31]
• Theodore Eisenberg, Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law at Cornell Law School^[32]
• Douglas Frenkel, Wharton School Class of 1968 (B.S. in economics) and University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1972 (J.D.);^[33][34] 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^[35] and Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit;^[35] 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^[36]
• Noyes Leech (1921–2010), University of Pennsylvania College Class of 1943 (BA), and University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1948.;^[37][38][39] served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review;^[40][41] reestablished the Mitchell Club as a diverse group of fellow legal students;^[42] Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law and the William A. Schnader Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• A. Leo Levin (January 9, 1919 – November 24, 2015) University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1942. He was an Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review;^[43][44] was the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1949 through 2014;^[45][46] was the director of the Federal Judicial Center from 1977 to 1987;^[43] was vice provost of the University of Pennsylvania;^[47] was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[48][49]
• Robert J. Levy, former William L. Prosser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota^[50]
• Beverly I. Moran, professor of law, Vanderbilt Law School^[51]
• David G. Owen, Carolina Distinguished Professor of Law, University of South Carolina Law School^[52]
• Curtis Reitz (born c. 1930), Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Jennifer Rosato Perea, Class of 1987, Dean, DePaul University College of Law
• Alan Miles Ruben (born 1931),^[53] Penn College Class of 1953, A.B., University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences graduate school Class of 1956, M.A. and Penn Law Class of 1956, LL.B. where he was an Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review; serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the standard treatise “How Arbitration Works”; serves as Professor Emeritus Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (1970 to 2003) and was Guggenheim Fellowship winner and Fulbright Scholar (1993) who subsequently was appointed Advisory Professor of Law Fudan University in Shanghai, China;^[54] became Member of Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame (Class of 1976) due to his role as fencer who captained both the U.S. team at 1972 Olympics and 1971 Pan-American games; made $500,000 commitment in will to create the Alan Miles Ruben and Betty Willis Ruben Endowed Professorship in the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law^[55][56]
• Stephen A. Saltzburg, Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School^[57]
• Louis B. Schwartz (1913-2003), law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• M. Michael Sharlot, Wright C. Morrow Professor of Law, University of Texas Law School^[58]
• Jonathan D. Varat, professor of law; Dean of the UCLA School of Law (1998–2003); author of popular constitutional law casebook^[59]
• James Wilson (Founding Father) (1742–1798), First Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania, 1789 through 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 ^[60]
• 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^[61]
• Michael Yelnosky, Class of 1987, Dean, Roger Williams University School of Law, the law school of Roger Williams University