Vikram David Amar is a Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law and a Professor of Law and Former Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law on the Urbana-Champaign campus. Immediately prior to taking the position at Illinois in 2015, Amar served as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at...

Neil H. Buchanan, an economist and legal scholar, is a visiting professor at the University of Toronto Law school. He is the James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation Emeritus at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law. Professor Buchanan blogs at Dorf on Law.

John Dean served as Counsel to the President of the United States from July 1970 to April 1973. Before becoming White House counsel at age thirty-one, he was the chief minority counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives, and an associate deputy attorney general at the US Department of Justice. His undergraduate studies...

Michael C. Dorf is the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School. He has written hundreds of popular essays, dozens of scholarly articles, and six books on constitutional law and related subjects. Professor Dorf blogs at Dorf on Law.

Samuel Estreicher is Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law and Director of the Center of Labor and Employment Law and Institute of Judicial Administration at New York University School of Law. He also served as chief reporter of the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Employment Law (2015).

Dr. Leslie C. Griffin is the William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Boyd School of Law. Prof. Griffin, who teaches constitutional law and bioethics, is known for her interdisciplinary work in law and religion. She holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. She is...

Joanna L. Grossman is the Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and Law at SMU Dedman School of Law and is currently serving as the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School.  She is an expert in sex discrimination law. She is the author or editor of nine books, including The Walled Garden: Law and Privacy in Modern Society...

Professor Marci A. Hamilton is a Professor of Practice in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the founder and CEO of CHILD USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit academic think tank at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to interdisciplinary, evidence-based research to prevent child abuse and neglect. Before moving to the...

Mr. Margulies is a Professor of Government at Cornell University. He was Counsel of Record in Rasul v. Bush (2004), involving detentions at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station, and in Geren v. Omar & Munaf v. Geren (2008), involving detentions at Camp Cropper in Iraq. Presently he is counsel for Abu Zubaydah, whose interrogation in 2002...

Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College.Professor Sarat founded both Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought and the national scholarly association, The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. He is former President...

Laurence H. Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School, where he has taught since 1968. Born in China to Russian Jewish parents, Tribe entered Harvard in 1958 at 16; graduated summa cum laude in Mathematics (1962) and magna cum laude in Law...

Lesley Wexler is a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Immediately prior to taking the position at Illinois, Wexler was a Professor of Law at Florida State University, whose faculty she joined in 2006 after serving as a Harry A. Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. She...

David Kemp is the managing editor of Justia's Verdict and Oyez. He is also an adjunct lecturer at Rutgers Law School and former legal writing professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He teaches courses on lawyering and professional ethics and is currently exploring novel ways of bringing generative AI into the law...

Julie Hilden graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School, where she served as a Teaching Assistant and a Notes Editor on the Yale Law Journal. From 1992-93, Hilden clerked for then-Chief Judge Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. From 1993-95, she earned an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Cornell,...

Until her death in August 2022, Sherry F. Colb was the C.S. Wong Professor of Law at Cornell University. Colb taught courses in constitutional criminal procedure, evidence, and animal rights. She published articles in a variety of law reviews, including Stanford, Columbia, N.Y.U., and G.W., on such topics as privacy from police searches,...

Joanne Mariner is the director of Hunter College’s Human Rights Program. Before joining Hunter in 2011, she worked at Human Rights Watch, most recently as the director of the organization’s Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program. She has investigated human rights abuses around the globe, focusing in recent years on counterterrorism laws and...

Anita Ramasastry is the UW Law Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, where she also directs the graduate program on Sustainable International Development. She is also a member of the Law, Technology and Arts Group at at the Law School. Prior to joining the University of Washington faculty,...

Until his death in March 2018, Ronald D. Rotunda was the Doy & Dee Henley Chair and Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, at Chapman University, Dale E. Fowler School of Law. Before that, he was University Professor and Professor of Law at George Mason University and the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law, the University of...

Dennis Aftergut has won cases of significance in the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court. He is a former federal prosecutor and Chief Assistant City Attorney in San Francisco. During his tenure with the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, he was named a “Lawyer of the Year” by California Lawyer Magazine for his...

Albert W. Alschuler, the Julius Kreeger Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago Law School, is the author of Twilight-Zone Originalism: The Supreme Court’s Peculiar Reasoning in New York State Pistol & Rifle Association v. Bruen.

Samuel Ball is a second-year J.D. candidate at New York University School of Law.

Ashutosh Bhagwat is a Distinguished Professor of Law and the Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair at the University of California, Davis School of Law. He is the author of The Myth of Rights and Our Democratic First Amendment.

Charles E. Binkley, MD, FACS, HEC-C, is a hepatobiliary surgeon and bioethicist. He is Director of Bioethics at Hackensack Meridian Health, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. He is also a Bioethics Fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley. His academic...

Alan Brownstein is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, School of Law.

Rodger D. Citron is the Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship and Professor of Law at Touro University, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. From 2014 until mid-2018, he served as the Academic Dean at Touro Law. Professor Citron is a graduate of Yale College, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, and Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor...

Sarah Corning (she/her) is a 3L at Stanford Law School, where she researches and writes on issues of reproductive rights and justice, gender, and free speech. During law school, she has worked for the California DOJ Civil Rights Enforcement Section and the American Civil Liberties Union. After graduating, she plans to continue her work in...

Laura Dooley is a Professor of Law at Touro University, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. She has been teaching about the civil justice system for almost thirty years, after clerking for Judge Pasco Bowman on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and teaching as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago. She has published...

Dean Falvy (@dfalvy) teaches constitutional law and other subjects at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. Dean is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.

Lawrence M. Friedman is the Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Stanford University and an internationally renowned legal historian. Professors Grossman and Friedman are co-authors of The Walled Garden: Law and Privacy in Modern Society (2022) and Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America.

Lauren Haumesser (she/her) is currently a student at Stanford Law School, where she studies the history of anti-abortion law in the United States. Before law school, she earned a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Virginia and worked as a researcher at the American Association of University Women. She is the author of The...

Bruce Kuhlik is an attorney volunteer with Lawyers Defending American Democracy and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School. He served as an assistant to the Solicitor General in the United States Department of Justice, where he briefed and argued cases before the Supreme Court.

Stephen Marcus is an attorney volunteer with Lawyers Defending American Democracy and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School. He has litigated civil cases for more than 30 years, including disputes relating to lawyers and law firms, and currently teaches legal ethics.

Jon May is a criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor. His firm, Creative Criminal Defense Consultants, headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., represents individuals and companies in federal proceedings nationally. His cases have included the defense of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, a challenge to Florida’s election law during the...

Jason Mazzone is the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Director of the Illinois Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law. Professor Mazzone’s primary field of research and teaching is constitutional law and history. He works principally on issues of constitutional...

Linda C. McClain is Robert Kent Professor of Law and co-director of the BU Program on Reproductive Justice at Boston University School of Law, where she teaches family law, gender and law, and feminist jurisprudence. Her most recent book is the Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 (2024) (co-edited with Aziza Ahmed).

James F. McHugh is a retired Massachusetts Appeals Court Justice and a former board member of Lawyers Defending American Democracy.

Meredith R. Miller is a Professor of Law at Touro University, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, where she has been teaching for nearly two decades. Prior to joining the academy, she served as a law clerk to the New York Court of Appeals and worked as an associate at a large, national law firm, where she litigated complex commercial and pro bono...

Klara Nedrelow is a J.D. candidate at NYU.

Peter Rawlings is an incoming clerk for the Hon. Frederic Block, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He is a recent graduate of NYU School of Law, where he was an Executive Editor of the NYU Law Review and an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow.

Lauren Stiller Rikleen is a board member and executive director of Lawyers Defending American Democracy, an organization devoted to protecting democracy and the rule of law.A nationally known speaker, trainer, author, and consultant, she is also president of the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership.Lauren is the editor of the 2023...

Kathryn Robb, National Director of the Children’s Justice Campaign at Enough Abuse, is a lawyer, legislative advocate, and law instructor who has been fighting to pass meaningful child sex abuse legislation for over two decades in over thirty jurisdictions. She is a national expert on statute of limitations reform/elimination aimed at...

Gary J. Simson is the Macon Chair in Law and Former Dean at Mercer Law School and Professor Emeritus of Law at Cornell Law School. He teaches and writes on many aspects of Constitutional Law, and he is a member of the board of directors of Lawyers Defending American Democracy.

Jan Vetter is a retired professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.

Barry Winograd has been an arbitrator and mediator of workplace and other civil disputes since 1988. He has served on the adjunct law school faculty at the University of California, Berkeley beginning in the 1980s, at the University of Michigan from 2004-09, and at the University of Pennsylvania in 2023 and 2024. He also has served as president...