Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law 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 the UC Davis School of Law. He has also had teaching...

Neil H. Buchanan, an economist and legal scholar, holds the James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law. His research addresses economic and philosophical aspects of justice between generations, and he is particularly interested in policies that affect budget deficits, the national...

Sherry F. Colb is the C.S. Wong Professor of Law at Cornell University. Colb teaches courses in constitutional criminal procedure, evidence, and animal rights. She has 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, incarceration, reproductive...

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 the Dwight D. Opperman Professor, Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law and Co-Director, Institute of Judicial Administration, NYU School of Law.

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.  She is an expert in sex discrimination law. Her most recent book, Nine to Five: How Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Continue to Define the American Workplace (Cambridge University Press 2016), is a lively and accessible introduction to the...

MARCI A. HAMILTON is the Fels Institute of Government Professor of Practice, and Fox Family Pavilion Resident Senior Fellow in the Program for Research on Religion at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the founder, CEO, and Academic Director of CHILD USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit academic think tank at the University of Pennsylvania...

Mr. Margulies is a Professor of Law and 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...

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...

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 S. Kemp is the managing editor of Verdict and of The Oyez Project. He is a part-time lecturer at Rutgers Law School and former professor of legal writing at UC Berkeley School of Law. He received his BA in Psychology from Rice University and his JD from Berkeley Law. During law school, Kemp served as Senior Executive Editor of the...

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,...

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...

Jeffrey Abramson is a Professor of Law and Government at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches courses on constitutional law, jury practice, and political philosophy. He is the author of We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy (Harvard, 2000), as well as numerous articles on speech, religion, juries, and political...

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...

Katharine T. Bartlett is A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law at Duke University. She publishes widely in the areas of sex discrimination, family law, and employment discrimination, and is co-author of Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine and Commentary (8th ed. 2020, with Joanna Grossman, Deborah Rhode, and Deborah Brake). She was formerly dean of Duke...

Charles E. Binkley, MD, FACS, is a surgeon and the Director of Bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Dr. Binkley completed medical school at Georgetown University and trained in surgery at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on professional responsibility and the ethical application of...

Deborah L. Brake is a Professor of Law, John E. Murray Faculty Scholar and 2016-17 Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She is the author of Getting in the Game: Title IX and the Women's Sports Revolution (NYU Press 2010) and dozens of articles on gender discrimination in employment,...

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

Evan Caminker is the former dean, and currently the Branch Rickey Collegiate Professor of Law, at the University of Michigan Law School. He is a 1986 graduate of Yale Law School and a former clerk to Justice William Brennan, Jr. He was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel during the Clinton Administration, and he...

Rodger D. Citron is the Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship and Professor of Law at Touro College, 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 of...

Igor De Lazari holds an LLM from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he was a Researcher at the Theoretical and Analytical Studies on Institutional Behavior Lab and Law Clerk at the Regional Federal Court in Rio de Janeiro. He is a summa cum laude undergraduate of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Law School and author of...

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.

Zachary Fasman is an Adjunct Professor of Labor and Employment Law at NYU Law School and mediator and arbitrator of employment disputes with Fasman ADR.

Lawrence M. Friedman is the Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford University and an internationally renowned legal historian. Professors Grossman and Friedman are co-authors of a book entitled Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in Twentieth Century America (Princeton University Press, 2011).

Rex Heinke is a highly accomplished appellate practitioner with the California Appellate Law Group. He has argued more than 150 appeals in federal and state courts across the country. Between 2001 and 2020, Rex was co-head of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s Supreme Court and Appellate practice.Rex has extensive experience before the...

Julian G. Ku is the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Hofstra University.

Ana Beatriz Mayr holds a Law degree from Federal University of Santa Catarina. She is a legal assistant at the Public Ministry Office of the State of Santa Catarina and she is a Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law Specialist.

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...

Brad Miller is a 1979 graduate of Columbia Law School and served as law clerk to Judge J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., of the U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1979 to 1980. He is a member of the North Carolina bar and practiced law in Raleigh for more than 20 years. He represented North Carolina in the U. S. House of Representatives from...

Colleen Murphy is the Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy & Political Science at the University of Illinois. She is also director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program in Illinois International.Professor Murphy is the author of The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice...

Saraswati Rathod (she/her/hers) is a 1L student at Stanford Law School, where she is a member of the Transgender, Gender-Nonconforming, and Intersex Pro Bono Project and a member editor of the Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a researcher, fact-checker and writer for The Nation, Mother...

Kathryn Robb, Executive Director of CHILD USAdvocacy, is a lawyer, legislative advocate, and law instructor who has been fighting to pass meaningful child sex abuse legislation for 14 years in multiple jurisdictions. As an outspoken survivor of child sexual abuse, Kathryn continues to use her voice to implement common-sense legislative change. ...

Illinois Law Professor Jennifer Robbennolt is an expert in the areas of psychology and law, torts, and dispute resolution. Her research integrates psychology into the study of law and legal institutions, focusing primarily on legal decision-making and the use of empirical research methodology in law.Professor Robbennolt is co-author of...

Steven D. Schwinn teaches constitutional law at the University of Illinois Chicago Law School. He edits the American Constitution Society Supreme Court Review and the Constitutional Law Prof Blog. He focuses on the separation of powers, and he's finalizing a book on the separation of powers in the Trump administration.

Antonio Sepulveda, PhD, is Professor of Law at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and at the Fluminense Federal University. Before that, he clerked at the Regional Labor Court of Rio de Janeiro. He is a researcher at the Theoretical and Analytical Studies on Institutional Behavior Lab and a Brazilian Internal Revenue Service officer. He is...

Nicola Faith Sharpe is a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Professor Sharpe teaches business law courses, including Business Associations, Antitrust, and Compliance, Ethics, and Professional Responsibility. Her research adopts an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates organizational behavior theory to critique...

Elena J. Voss currently serves as Associate General Counsel for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ms. Voss counsels the institution on a variety of legal matters including employment law, union-management relations, benefits, immigration, and contracts. Any opinions expressed herein are her own.Prior to joining the Museum, Ms. Voss served...

Jessica Weisel is an experienced litigator and member of the California Appellate Law Group handling civil appeals, writs, and substantive trial court motions for businesses and individuals. She has litigated in nearly every federal circuit Court of Appeals and has extensive experience in the California Supreme Court and California Court of...

Samantha Zipper is a second-year law student at New York University School of Law. At NYU, she serves as the Vice President of I-Prep, Mentorship Chair for First Generation Professionals, as a Staff Editor for the Journal of Law and Social Change, and as a Teaching Assistant for first year Contracts. Prior to attending law school, Samantha...

John deVille has taught US History, Philosophy, and Government, for 25 years in the mountains of Western North Carolina at Franklin High School. He has been a public education advocate during that same period. His also teaches a class for adults, "Original Ideas, Original Sins", which explores issues of race and racism from the colonial period...