Lawrence Byard Solum (born 1954) is an American legal theorist known for his work in the
philosophy of law
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and
constitutional theory
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. He is the William L. Matheson and
Robert M. Morgenthau
Robert Morris Morgenthau ( ; July 31, 1919July 21, 2019) was an American lawyer. From 1975 until his retirement in 2009, he was the District Attorney for New York County (the borough of Manhattan), having previously served as United States Atto ...
Distinguished Professor of Law and the Douglas D. Drysdale Research Professor of Law at the
University of Virginia School of Law
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, where he has taught since 2020. He was previously the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law at the
Georgetown University Law Center
The Georgetown University Law Center (Georgetown Law) is the law school of Georgetown University, a private research university in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1870 and is the largest law school in the United States by enrollment and ...
.
References
External links
Faculty pageBlog*
1954 births
Living people
American legal scholars
Georgetown University Law Center faculty
University of Virginia School of Law faculty
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American lawyers
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
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