William Powers, Jr. is the president of The University of Texas at Austin. Before taking office on February 1, 2006, he served as dean of the university's School of Law. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor and holds the Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law. He is the author of dozens of articles on tort law and legal philosophy and of several books, including "Cases and Materials in Products Liability" (with David Fischer, Michael Green and Joseph Sanders), "Cases and Materials in Torts" (with David Robertson, David Anderson and Olin Guy Wellborn) and "Texas Products Liability Law."
	Bruce Buchanan is a nationally recognized scholar of presidential and American politics, American institutions, public policy and political behavior. His books include The Presidential Experience (Prentice-Hall, 1978), The Citizen's Presidency (Congressional Quarterly, 1987), Electing A President (Texas, 1991), Renewing Presidential Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996), The State of the Presidency (ed. LBJ School/Library 2002), Presidential Campaign Quality (Prentice- Hall, 2004) and The Policy Partnership (Routledge, 2004).
	Gretchen Ritter specializes in studies of American politics, constitutional development, and gender politics from a historical and theoretical perspective. She is currently examining the impact of work-family issues on gender equity in the United States. She is the Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at UT-Austin, and the author of two books, Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America (NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997) and The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006).
	Sean Theriault specializes in American politics. His particular interests are in the U.S. Congress, American political development, and political history. His current research explores party polarization in the U.S. Congress, and he is the author of The Power of the People: Congressional Competition, Public Attention, and Voter Retribution, (The Ohio State University Press, 2005). In the spring of 2005, he received the Eyes of Texas Teaching Excellence Award.