• Floyd Abrams, William J. Brennan Jr. visiting Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, expert on constitutional law that has argued in front of the Supreme Court on 13 occasions
• Alexander Bickel, legal scholar and expert on the United States Constitution
• Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, legal scholar
• Robert E. Bacharach, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2013–present)
• David J. Barron, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (2014–present)
• David L. Bazelon, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1979–1993), Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1962–1978)
• Philip Perlman, Solicitor General of the United States (1947–1952)
• Simon Sobeloff, Solicitor General of the United States (1954–1956)
• Daniel Mortimer Friedman, Acting Solicitor General of the United States (1977)
• Edward H. Levi, United States Attorney General (1975–1977)
• Michael Mukasey, United States Attorney General (2007–2009)
• Jeffrey A. Rosen, acting United States Attorney General (2020–2021)
• Judah P. Benjamin, Confederate States Attorney General (1861)
• Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (2018–2020)
• Adam L. Braverman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of California (2017–2019)
• Richard Blumenthal, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1977–1981)
• Samuel Rosenman, White House Counsel (1943–1946)
• Ted Sorensen, White House Counsel (1961–1964)
• Myer Feldman, White House Counsel (1964–1965)
• Robert Lipshutz, White House Counsel (1977–1979)