BIOS:
Larry Alexander is the Warren Distinguished Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 11 books and over 170 articles covering topics in jurisprudence, criminal law theory, constitutional theory, and moral philosophy. He has a B.A. in philosophy from Williams College and a law degree from Yale University.
Richard Holton took his first degree at Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and then completed his PhD at Princeton. He is currently professor of philosophy, and head of the philosophy section, at MIT. Principal recent work has been in moral psychology. His book Willing, Wanting, Waiting is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Michael Rappaport is the Class of 1975 Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He is also the Director of the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism. His research interests include originalism, supermajority rules, the separation of powers, and federalism. Previously, Professor Rappaport worked in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice, and practiced with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C. Professor Rappaport received a JD and a DCL (law and political theory) from the Yale Law School.
Lawrence B. Solum is the John E. Cribbet Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois. He is the editor of Legal Theory Blog (http://lsolum.typepad.com). Solum contributes to debates in law and technology policy, Internet governance, intellectual property, jurisprudence, constitutional theory and the intersection of law and political philosophy. His current work focuses on virtue jurisprudence and originalist constitutional theory.
Brian Tamanaha holds the Benjamin N. Cardozo Chair at St. John’s Law School and is incoming Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law. He is the author of six books on various aspects of legal theory which have received several awards, including the Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory and the Herbert Jacob Book Prize. His forthcoming book is Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide: The Role of Politics in Judging (Princeton, 2010).
Commentators:
Mark A. Graber is a Professor of Government and Law at the University of Maryland School of Law and the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (Cambridge 2006), Rethinking Abortion (Princeton 1996), and Transforming Free Speech (1991). With Professor Keith Whittington and Howard Gillman, he is presently completing American Constitutionalism, a new, historically oriented casebook on American constitutionalism.
Bernadette Meyler is an Associate Professor of Law and member of the Graduate Field in English at Cornell University. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections between constitutional law and the common law, British and American legal history, law and literature, and law and religion. Professor Meyler received her AB from Harvard, JD from Stanford, and Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Irvine, where she was the beneficiary of both a Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Study and a Chancellor's Fellowship. During 2009-10, Professor Meyler will be the inaugural Mellon/LAPA Fellow in Law and the Humanities at Princeton University.
Saikrishna B. Prakash is at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he is the David Lurton Masee, Jr. Proffesor of Law and the Sullivan &Cromwell Professor of Law. Prakash was formerly Herzog Research Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. He was senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and a recipient of the John M. Olin Fellowship in Law, Economics and Public Policy. He clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1993 to 1994, and for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1994 to 1995. After practicing in New York for two years, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Illinois College of Law from 1997 to 1998. He was also an associate professor at Boston University School of Law before joining San Diego's faculty in 1999. In 2004, he served as a visiting professor at Northwestern University School of Law.
Gregory Salmieri received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh and is presently teaching at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research interests center around ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle) and issues in the foundations of epistemology and ethics.
Michael Zuckert is a professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He specializes in early modern political philosophy and constitutional history and theory. Zuckert has published Natural Rights and the New Republicanism, The Natural Rights Republic, Launching Liberalism, and (with Catherine Zuckert) The Truth about Leo Strauss. Soon to appear is a volume (co-edited with Derek Webb) called The Anti-Federalist Writings of the Melanchthon Smith Circle.
Roundtable Leaders:
James E. Fleming is Professor of Law and The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law at Boston University School of Law. He is author of Securing Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Autonomy (Chicago, 2006), co-author of Constitutional Interpretation: The Basic Questions (Oxford, 2007) (with Sotirios A. Barber of University of Notre Dame), and co-author of American Constitutional Interpretation (4th ed., Foundation Press, 2008) (with Walter F. Murphy, Stephen Macedo, and Sotirios A. Barber). Fleming is Editor of NOMOS, the annual journal of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.
Allan Gotthelf is a multi-year Visiting Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he holds the University’s Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism. He is a distinguished scholar of the philosophies of Aristotle and Ayn Rand, with numerous publications. Gotthelf is currently preparing a volume of his Aristotle papers for Oxford University Press and co-editing, for Wiley-Blackwell, Ayn Rand: A Companion to Her Works and Thought; both are due out in 2010. He has wide-ranging philosophical interests and recently has been giving special attention to the nature and role of concepts, and the nature of objectivity, in epistemology, natural science, and the foundations of ethics.