called ‘transnational progressivism,’ which is gaining prominence in law schools, for example, at Princeton and Rutgers". During the Senate Judiciary Committee vote for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, Sen. Richard Durbin attested that now Justice Alito hailed from "Princeton Law" (Alito attended Princeton University for his undergraduate studies, but received his law degree from Yale Law School). Both de Russy and Durbin became cases in point for Sexton's comments, since the former is an academic holding a Ph.D., while the latter holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Georgetown University Law Center. Princeton University does award honorary degrees of law. Sonia Sotomayor, then Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Princeton University. Notable faculty Joseph Coerten Hornblower Notes Jan Hoffman, "Judge Not, Law Schools Demand Of a Magazine That Ranks Them", New York Times, February 19, 1998. References Sources External links Is or was there a Princeton Law School? Not really! Law School Excerpt from A Princeton Companion "If Princeton Had a Law School" - a poem Law schools in New Jersey Princeton University Defunct private universities and colleges in New Jersey Buildings and structures in Princeton, New Jersey Historic district contributing properties in Mercer County, New Jersey Defunct law schools