Legal Academy Look-Alikes

Somebody at the New Law Prof Workshop turned to me and said "you really look like Owen Fiss at Yale."  Now there are some significant differences between Professor Fiss and me, not the least of which is that he is a distinguished academic with a world-class resume and I am not, but more importantly, the picture at left from the Yale Law School web site appears to have been professionally taken after he had bothered to shave, dress, and not pose so that it looked like he had a double chin, things I did not bother to do or avoid when my son James snapped the picture to the right this morning.

This, of course, caused me to think about the other look-alikes in legal academy that I've noticed recently (or not so recently).  First, it's amazing how much Christine Hurt (Illinois, left) gets done in terms of the triad of scholarship, teaching, and service, in addition to blogging up a storm at Conglomerate, and raising her kids, when she also appears in movies like Breach under her stage name Laura Linney (right).

Similarly, Professor Mike Green of Wake Forest (left), a member of the AALS Committee on Professional Development, in an admirable expenditure of service time, spent the entire weekend as a participant in the New Law Prof workshop, even though it meant not appearing as Capt. Donald Cragen in the next episode of Law & Order:  Special Victims Unit, where his AFTRA-registered moniker is Dann Florek.

Feel free to submit other look-alike nominations.  But be forewarned that I have already mentioned these similarities to the people involved and have not been punched out.  And I will delete any comments that are not nice.