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Most “influential” people in American legal education?

It's not for me to say; a lot of Deans and administrators, plus some guys with blogs.  The "top twenty":

1.  Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, Berkeley)

2.  Kellye Testy (President & CEO, LSAC)

3.  Mark Alexander (Dean, Villanova; 2023 AALS President)

4.  Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine, and "Blog Emperor"!)

5.  Bobby Ahdieh (Dean, Texas A&M)

6.  Aaron Taylor (Executive Director, AccessLex)

7.  Brian Leiter (Professor, UChicago; guy with a blog)

8.  Meera Deo (Professor, Southwestern Law; Director, Law School Survey of Student Engagement)

9.  Michael Hunter Schwartz (Dean, McGeorge)

10.  Darby Dickerson (President & Dean, Southwestern Law)

11.  Jenny Martinez (Provost, Stanford; former Law Dean there as well)

12.  Eugene Volokh (Professor, UCLA; guy with a blog)

13.  Andrew Perlman (Dean, Suffolk)

14.  Melanie Wilson (Dean, Washington & Lee; 2024 AALS President)

15.  William Treanor (Dean, Georgetown)

16.  Megan Carpenter (Dean, New Hampshire)

17.  Peter "Bo" Rutledge (Dean, Georgia)

18.  Anthony Varona (Dean, Seattle)

19.  William Henderson (Professor, Indiana/Bloomington)

20.  Jerry Organ (Professor, St. Thomas; guy who blogs at TaxProf)

I think I've been on this list every time since 2014.  If this isn't "fake news," then I have only you, dear readers, to thank for reading all these years!

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