About the Contributors
Bret D. Asbury
Bret D. Asbury is professor of law and associate dean of academic affairs at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Philadelphia. His research interests include jurisprudence, bioethics, and the intersection of law and literature.
Mehrsa Baradaran
Mehrsa Baradaran is professor of law at the University of California — Irvine School of Law. Her research interests include banking law, financial inclusion, inequality, and the racial wealth gap. She is the author of How the Other Half Banks (2015) and The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (2017).
John Q. Barrett
John Q. Barrett is professor of law at St. John’s University School of Law, New York, and Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow and board member at the Robert H. Jackson Center, Jamestown, New York. His specialties include Constitutional law, criminal procedure, and legal history.
Benjamin Barton
Benjamin Barton is the Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Tennessee, Knoxville School of Law. He is the author of the books Fixing Law Schools (2019), Rebooting Justice (2017), Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession (2015), and The Lawyer-Judge Bias (2011).
Erwin Chemerinsky
Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He is the author of eleven books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent books are Closing the Courthouse Doors: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable (2017); Free Speech on Campus (2017, with Howard Gillman); and We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century (2018).
Joshua A. Douglas
Joshua A. Douglas is the Thomas P. Lewis Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law. He teaches and researches election law and voting rights, civil procedure, constitutional law, and judicial decision making. Douglas is the author of Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting (2019), a popular press book that provides hope and inspiration for a positive path forward on voting rights.
Robin J. Effron
Robin J. Effron is professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, New York. She writes and teaches courses on civil procedure, litigation, and international business law.
Anthony Paul Farley
Anthony Paul Farley is the Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Albany Law School, New York, and the Peter Rodino Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rutgers Law School — Newark (2020). His areas of expertise include constitutional law, criminal procedure, human rights, civil rights, and legal theory. He is a member of the American Law Institute and the board of governors of the Society of American Law Teachers.
Sarah Fishel
Sarah Fishel is a JD/PhD student in law and psychology at Drexel University and Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Philadelphia. Her areas of interest include the reentry process for individuals involved in the legal system, prison reform, and changes in offending patterns over the lifespan.
Rosa Frazier
Rosa Frazier served as supervising attorney for the University of Wisconsin Law School Domestic Violence Immigration Clinic in Madison between 2009 and 2013. She now writes romance novels under a pseudonym.
Gregory G. Garre
Gregory G. Garre served as the forty-fourth solicitor general of the United States and has argued forty-four cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is now a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Latham & Watkins and global chair of the firm’s Supreme Court & Appellate Practice.
Michael Gerhardt
Michael Gerhardt is the Burton Craige Distinguished University Professor of Jurisprudence, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His specialties include civil rights, the legislative process, and constitutional conflicts. He has served as special counsel, public commentator, and expert witness before Congress on all the major constitutional conflicts between presidents and Congress over the past twenty-five years.
Jody Madeira
Jody Madeira is professor of law, Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow, and co-director of the Center for Law, Society & Culture at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington. Her scholarly interests involve empirical research; the role of emotion in law; the sociology of law; law, medicine, and bioethics; and the Second Amendment. Her most recent book, Taking Baby Steps: How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception (2018), focuses on the infertility experience.
Marcia L. McCormick
Marcia L. McCormick is professor of law and women’s and gender studies at St. Louis University and is currently the associate dean for Academic Affairs. Her scholarship explores the areas of employment and labor law, federal courts, and gender and the law.
Ian Millhiser
Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox.com and the author of Injustices: The Supreme Court’s History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted (2015).
Christina Mulligan
Christina Mulligan is vice dean and professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, New York. She teaches Internet law, intellectual property law, and trusts and estates. Recently, she has written about the Internet of Things, robot punishment, and early translations of the Constitution.
Kimberly Mutcherson
Kimberly Mutcherson is co-dean and professor of law at Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey. Her scholarly work is at the intersection of family law, health law, and bioethics. She writes on issues related to reproductive justice, with a focus on assisted reproduction, abortion, and maternal-fetal decision making.
Kimberly Jade Norwood
Kimberly Jade Norwood is the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Her research focuses on blackthink, colorism, implicit bias, and the intersection of race, class, and public education in America. She lectures around the world on colorism, various social justice/civil rights issues, implicit (and explicit) bias issues and was part of the national team of experts consulted to advise Starbucks on its national implicit bias training agenda.
Jill Goldenziel
Jill Goldenziel is associate professor of international law and international relations at Marine Corps University Command and Staff College in Quantico, and an affiliated senior scholar at Fox Leadership International, University of Pennsylvania. Her award-winning scholarship focuses on international and comparative law, constitutional law, refugees and migration, information warfare, lawfare, and human rights. She co-chairs the American Society of International Law’s Human Rights Interest Group and blogs at Balkinization.
M. Todd Henderson
M. Todd Henderson is the Michael J. Marks Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. His research interests include corporations, securities regulation, and law and economics. He has taught classes ranging from Banking Regulation to Torts to American Indian Law.
Danielle Holley-Walker
Danielle Holley-Walker is dean and professor of law at Howard University School of Law, Washington, D.C. Her research interests include the governance of public schools and diversity in the legal profession. She has published articles on issues of civil rights and education, including recent articles on No Child Left Behind Act, charter school policy, desegregation plans, and affirmative action in higher education.
Anil Kalhan
Anil Kalhan is professor of law at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Philadelphia. His scholarly interests lie in the areas of immigration law, U.S. and comparative constitutional law, international human rights law, privacy and surveillance, criminal law, and law and South Asian studies. From 2015 to 2018, he served as chair of the New York City Bar Association’s International Human Rights Committee.
Neal Katyal
Neal Katyal is a partner at Hogan Lovells and the former acting solicitor general of the United States, focusing on appellate and complex litigation. In December 2017, American Lawyer magazine named him Litigator of the Year.
Elizabeth B. Keyes
Elizabeth B. Keyes is associate professor of law and director at the Immigrant Rights Clinic, University of Baltimore School of Law. Her teaching, scholarship, and practice have all focused on improving access to justice for immigrants. She is currently turning her work to the challenges posed by climate change for migrants within and across borders.
Eloise Pasachoff
Eloise Pasachoff is professor of law, Agnes N. Williams Research Professor, and associate dean for careers at the Georgetown University Law Center. She teaches and writes about administrative law, public administration, and education law.
Richard Primus
Richard Primus is the Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor. He teaches the law, theory, and history of the U.S. Constitution.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Glenn Harlan Reynolds is the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville School of Law. His interests are law and technology and constitutional law issues. A songwriter and producer for such bands as Mobius Dick, The Nebraska Guitar Militia, and The Defenders of The Faith, Reynolds is a member of the American Society of Composers and Performers and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Kermit Roosevelt III
Kermit Roosevelt III is professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. His work focuses on constitutional law and conflict of laws. He is the author of The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions (2006) and Conflict of Laws (2010).
Zahr K. Said
Zahr K. Said is associate dean for research and faculty development at the University of Washington School of Law. Her research applies humanistic methods, theories, and texts to problems in legal doctrine and policy. Her current work examines the role of the jury in copyright law and jury instructions in copyright litigation.
Paul M. Secunda
Paul M. Secunda is a partner at Walcheske & Luzi. He is a former labor and employment law professor for 18 years with two different law schools, specializing in the law of ERISA and employee benefits law.
Lisa A. Tucker
Lisa A. Tucker is an associate professor of law at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Philadelphia. Her scholarly work focuses on the federal courts, legal education, family law, and law and literature. She is the author of the law school novel Called On (2015), as well as eleven books for children.
Rebecca Tushnet
Rebecca Tushnet is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Law School, Cambridge. Her current work focuses on copy- right, trademark, and false advertising law. She helped found the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and promoting fanworks, and currently volunteers on its legal committee. Contact her: rtushnet@law.harvard.edu.
Elizabeth B. Wydra
Elizabeth B. Wydra is president of the Constitutional Accountability Center. She served as its counsel from 2008 to 2016, representing the center as well as clients including preeminent constitutional scholars and historians, state and local government organizations, and groups such as the League of Women Voters and the AARP. She frequently participates in Supreme Court litigation and her legal brief writing has been recognized as “exemplary” by the Green Bag Almanac & Reader. Email: elizabeth@theusconstitution.org.