John Hart Ely

John Hart Ely (December 3, 1938 – October 25, 2003) was an American law professor known for his studies of constitutional law. He was one of the most widely cited legal scholars in United States history, ranking just after Richard Posner, Ronald Dworkin, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., according to a 2000 study in the University of Chicago's Journal of Legal Studies.