and federal court procedure; writings include the classic hornbooks, Handbook on the Law of Damages (1935) and Handbook on the Law of Evidence (1954). John O. McGinnis, renowned expert on trade law and one of nation's leading scholars in the field of Constitutional Law. Dawn Clark Netsch, expert in governmental organization law and the first woman to be nominated by a major political party to run for Governor of Illinois. James E. Pfander, renowned civil procedure, federal courts, and constitutional law scholar Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, founder of the movement for "sociological jurisprudence" Martin Redish, civil procedure and constitutional law scholar David S. Ruder, former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission David Scheffer, international law and war crimes expert who served as the first United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Charles Taylor, internationally renowned political philosopher, Royal Society of Canada fellow, British Academy fellow, member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences David E. Van Zandt, former dean of Northwestern University School of Law John Henry Wigmore, the "father of modern evidence," first full-time dean of Northwestern Law (1901) and author of Treatise on Evidence'' Popular media The Chicago Code was substantially filmed on the Northwestern Law campus in Chicago. This television drama premiered on Fox on February 7, 2011. Filming at Northwestern Law began in August 2010. Classrooms in the law school are depicted as interior offices for the fictional offices for City administration. Levy Mayer 212 served as the main taping location at the law school. In The Judge, Robert Downey Jr. plays the role of a Chicago defense attorney who is a Northwestern Law graduate. Prof Steven Drizin and Prof Laura Nirider feature heavily in the 2016 Netflix documentary Making a Murderer as the post-conviction legal representatives of Brendan Dassey. Dassey’s confession is thought by many to be false and coerced, so both Drizin and Nirider are acting as part of work by the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth. Alumni Selected prominent Northwestern Law alumni include: Academia For-profit / Non-profit organizations Government and politics Judiciary Firsts Mary Bartelme, first woman elected judge in Illinois. Ferdinand L. Barnett, first African-American assistant State's Attorney in Illinois. Salem J. Chalabi, first General Director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal to try Saddam Hussein William Dawson, first African American to chair a congressional committee. Ada Kepley, first woman in the United States to graduate