Antonia Baraggia is Assistant Professor of Comparative Law at University of Milan. She is Principal Investigator of the project CONFEDERAL on fiscal federalism and social rights. She will be Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute in Goettingen in March 2019 and at McGill in May 2019. She serves as one of the members of the Executive Board of the Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the ASCL. Her research interests include the role of courts, economic and financial crisis, socio-economic rights and fiscal federalism considered in a comparative perspective.

Professor Bell received his B.A. cum laude from Harvard and J.D. from Stanford. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White (October 1982 Term). Before joining the Rutgers faculty in 1994, he served for ten years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (Civil Division) in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.  He teaches Constitutional Law and Administrative Law, among other courses.

Mitchell Berman writes and teaches on American constitutional law, constitutional theory, general jurisprudence, philosophy of criminal law, and jurisprudence and philosophy of sport.  He is currently developing an original theory of law that he terms “principled positivism,” and that serves both as a general jurisprudential theory of legal content and as a parochial account of American constitutional law and practice.  The account is introduced and elaborated upon in “Our Principled Constitution” (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2018), “The Tragedy of Justice Scalia” (Michigan Law Review, 2017), and “Kennedy’s Legacy: A Principled Justice” (Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, 2018).

Before arriving at Chase in 2006, John Bickers served in the Army for more than two decades. He was a Judge Advocate for most of his career, after a brief stint in tanks. He earned an A.B. from Cornell University, a J.D. from the University of Michigan, and an LL.M. from Georgetown. A plurality of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit have approvingly quoted his writing.

Professor Birk joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2018 as a visiting assistant professor of law. His research focuses on the jurisdiction of federal courts, civil procedure, and the history of judicial institutions and influences in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States. He has published articles in the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and Villanova Law Review and has contributed chapters about antitrust law to American Bar Association publications and a chapter about non-contentious jurisdiction in the United States to Voluntary (Non-Contentious) Jurisdiction Around the World (Gorodets 2017).

Ofra Bloch is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School. Her research draws on legal history to explore questions of inequality and law. In her dissertation, Ofra examines the ways in which affirmative action law and policy successfully fight some forms of inequality while sustaining others.

Ofra holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School and earned an LL.B. (magna cum laude) and LL.M. (summa cum laude) degrees from Tel-Aviv University. Before coming to Yale, Ofra served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Justice Esther Hayut of the Supreme Court of Israel.

Sam Bookman is a New Zealand-trained lawyer and S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. His research interests lie in comparative constitutional law, international human rights, and judicial accountability. Prior to commencing his studies in the United States, Sam worked as a Judge’s Clerk to the Chief District Court Judge of New Zealand, and worked as a litigator and independent legal consultant. He is currently serving as a Kaufman Public Interest Fellow at a New York-based NGO, and is working on a book about the intersection of New Zealand law, rugby, and social change.

Professor Boone teaches Family Law and Reproductive Rights at the University of Alabama. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law and a Clinical Teaching Fellow at the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown Law. Professor Boone has been published in the California Law Review, the Texas Journal of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, and the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, among others. Her research interests include the limits of state regulation of the physical body and issues of diversity in the legal profession.

Joshua is Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law and received his Ph.D from Yale Political Science and a J.D. from Yale Law School. His research includes court-packing and conflicts over how to make constitutions. Joshua’s work has been published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law and the Georgetown International Law Review and his co-authored casebook, the U.S. Constitution and Comparative Constitutional Law was published by Foundation Press. He has also published shorter pieces in a variety of outlets, such as Politico, Dissent and Talking Points Memo.

Born in Melbourne, Dr Breen worked as a journalist, researcher and consultant in the popular music, film and technology industries in the 1980s and 1990s. Since 1996 in the US, Dr Breen's academic research has navigated the intersections of media, communication, culture, public policy and critical internet studies. His work includes the way changing concepts of "the public interest" influence regulation, social and cultural life as well as political struggles over the meaning of a just and equitable society. He has published in journals such as the International Journal of Communication, New Media and Society, Cultural Studies, Critical Arts, Perfect Beat, Technology Media and Society, The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. His most recent book was Uprising: The Internet's Unintended Consequences (2011).

Doctor in Public Law by Universidade Federal da Bahia, Doctorate in Public Law – Welfare State, Constitution and Poverty – by University of Coimbra, Post-graduate in Constitutional Law by University of Salamanca, Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, Professor of Constitutional Law and Coordinator of Law Course at the Universidade Salvador. Professor of the Master in Law, Governance and Public Policy at Universidade Salvador. Member of the Constitutional Studies Commission of the Local Bar Association – Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil, Seção Bahia.

Researcher and Academic Assistant to Professors Conrado Hübner Mendes and Virgílio Afonso da Silva at University of Sao Paulo. Member of the Research Group Constitution, Politics and Institutions. Coordinator of the graduate courses Advanced Studies in Constitutional Law and Antidiscrimination Law. PhD course at the University of Bergen in 2017. First Degree in Law at University of Brasilia (2014). He has published articles and chapters in book on state of emergency, institutional experimentalism, policy, judicial review, judicial interpretation and the Brazilian Constitutional Court.

Louis Cholden-Brown serves is the Director of Policy at the New York City Council, a role from which he is presently on leave to serve as Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of the 2019 New York City Charter Revision Commission. He previously served in senior staff roles to a New York City Council Member and with local and state advocacy organizations. His scholarship, which includes forthcoming articles in the Chapman Law Review and University of Detroit-Mercy Law Review, has focused on the Constitution, state and local government and direct democracy.

Professor Dickinson's teaching and scholarship focus on property, constitutional law, state and local government law, and affordable housing law and policy. His scholarship has featured in numerous law reviews, and he writes and comments frequently in local and national media outlets, including several editorials in the Washington Post and The Hill. Professor Dickinson has also offered testimony to the U.S. Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee regarding land acquisition issues along the US-Mexico border.

Prior to joining the academy, Professor Dickinson practiced law at Reed Smith LLP (Pittsburgh), where he concentrated on all aspects of real estate development and litigation, and founded and coordinated the firm's Housing Rights Project, a pro bono initiative advocating on behalf of indigent tenants in eviction proceedings in Allegheny County in collaboration with the Neighborhood Legal Services Association.

He clerked for the Honorable Theodore A. McKee, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. Professor Dickinson is also a former Fulbright Scholar to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he conducted a comprehensive project on urban development and housing at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law.

Oran Doyle is Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, having held visiting positions at the Academia Sinica Taipei, Bocconi University Milan, Keio University Tokyo and Boston College. Prof Doyle’s recent work has appeared in ICON and Global Constitutionalism and he has just published a monograph, The Irish Constitution: A Contextual Analysis.  Prof Doyle is the co-chair of the British-Irish Chapter of the International Society of Public Law. A regular contributor to public debates in Ireland, he was a constitutional law advisor to the Citizens' Assembly that considered the pro-life provision in the Irish Constitution.

Joel K. Goldstein is the Vincent C. Immel Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law.  He has written widely about constitutional law, the vice presidency and presidential succession and inability.  He is best known for his work on the vice presidency which includes two books, The Modern American Vice Presidency: The Transformation of a Political Institution and The White House Vice Presidency: The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden and numerous articles.  He is a graduate of Princeton University (A.B.), Harvard Law School (J.D.) and Oxford University (B.Phil., D.Phil., politics) which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.

Lakshmi Gopal is a Lecturer and Senior Researcher at one of Germany’s leading law faculties. She teaches American constitutional law and supervises two advocacy-oriented practicums on World Trade law and foreign direct investment arbitration. She is a member of the Young International Chamber of Commerce Association. She graduated from Michigan Law, as a recipient of the S. Anthony Benton Award for scholastic excellence in constitutional and international law. At Michigan, she was Managing Editor for the Michigan Journal of International Law’s digital publications and selected as one of the 200 most accomplished student leaders during the University’s bicentennial celebrations.

Stephen Griffin specializes in constitutional theory and history. His work emphasizes understanding American constitutional law from an interdisciplinary, historical point of view that is theoretically informed.  Griffin is the author of American Constitutionalism: From Theory to Politics (Princeton University Press 1996), Long Wars and the Constitution (Harvard University Press 2013) and Broken Trust: Dysfunctional Government and Constitutional Reform (University Press of Kansas 2015). His writing, which includes more than 40 articles, book chapters and reviews on constitutional law and theory, has been cited in political science and history journals as well as law reviews.

Stefanus Hendrianto is a Jesuit and legal scholar. In recent years, he served as a visiting professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and a guest scholar at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Currently, he is a scholar at Boston College, School of Theology and Ministry. He holds a Ph.D. degree from University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, and an LLM from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in addition to his LLB degree from Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia.

Andrea Scoseria Katz is a clerk at the District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Judge Michael A. Ponsor). She holds a Ph.D. from Yale University (Political Science, ‘16) and a J.D. from Yale Law School (YLS ’16). Her scholarship concerns presidential power, with a particular focus on war powers. Her Ph.D. thesis compares presidential systems in the Americas. From 2016-17, she clerked at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, for Judge András Sajó, Vice-President of the Court. She has taught courses in comparative and American politics and constitutional law.

Aileen Kavanagh has published widely in UK and comparative constitutional law and theory.  Her book - Constitutional Review under the UK Human Rights Act 1998 (CUP 2009) – was shortlisted for the Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2010.  She received a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2015 to begin work on her new book – The Collaborative Constitution (CUP, 2019 forthcoming).  Aileen is on the Editorial board of Law and Philosophy: An International Journal for Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy and the leading specialist UK journal public law issues called Public Law. 

Alex Kreit is a Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. He is author of the casebook Controlled Substances: Crime, Regulation, and Policy, co-author of the annually updated reference book Drug Abuse and the Law Sourcebook (with Gerald F. Uelmen); and co-author of the forthcoming casebook Marijuana Law and Policy (with Douglas A. Berman). He is frequently quoted in the media on drug policy and marijuana law issues, having appeared in news outlets including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and VICE News.

Professor Kuykendall is a professor of law at Michigan State University, where she teaches constitutional law, and seminars on various subjects, including judicial biography, corporate law and policy, race, law and culture, and constitutional structure. Her scholarship adopts a sociological perspective on “mediating institutions in civil society.” She is currently writing two books under contract:  Votes of No Confidence: Theory and Practice (with Sean McKinniss) and Race Silence: American Culture, Politics, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence.  Her work has addressed territoriality in marriage law, the paucity of narrative richness in corporate law, and accountability in enterprise governance.

Bruce Ledewitz is Professor of Law at Duquesne University School of law, where he founded the Allegheny County Death Penalty Project in 1981.  He is the author of American Religious Democracy (2007), Hallowed Secularism (2009), and Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism (2011), numerous articles and popular publications, and the blog, Hallowed Secularism.  Ledewitz first enunciated his challenge to moral skepticism in a 1986 Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing the elevation of William Rehnquist to Chief Justice.  Professor Ledewitz received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

Paul E. McGreal is a Professor of Law at the Creighton University School of Law. He has taught Constitutional Law for twenty-three years at five law schools, as well as electives on the First Amendment, Federalism, and Religion and the Law. He has also spoken and published on topics in constitutional law, often taking an inter-disciplinary approach. He earned an LL.M. from Yale Law School, a J.D. from the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University, and a B.A. in economics from Williams College, and he is a candidate for the M.A. in Christian Spirituality at Creighton University.

Elena is a young European scholar from Sicily, interested in comparative criminal procedure, with a specific focus on legal comparison with the United States. She is currently a Ph.D. Student in Como, with a thesis on procedural safeguards for corporations under a criminal investigation. She has lived in Milan, Washington D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and currently resides in Germany for a semester. While in L.A. as a Visiting Scholar in the Spring Semester ‘18, she volunteered for the Loyola Project for the Innocent and discovered the hidden side of the criminal justice system. She speaks Italian, English, French, German and Spanish.

Darrell A. H. Miller writes and teaches in the areas of civil rights, constitutional law, civil procedure, state and local government law, and legal history. With Joseph Blocher, he’s the author of The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Miller graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. In addition to his law degree, Miller holds degrees from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar, and from Anderson University.

Raquel Muñiz is housed at Boston College as an Assistant Professor at the Lynch School of Education and Liaison to the School of Law. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Policy at Penn State University’s College of Education and her J.D. at Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law. Her research critically examines equity in the education system through the lens of law and policy.

Chad Oldfather is Professor of Law and, for a few more weeks, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Marquette University Law School. His primary scholarly focus has been on the judicial process, including judicial behavior as well as the institutional, procedural, and other mechanisms used to channel that behavior. He has also written in areas including constitutional theory and scholarly ethics. His teaching package has included Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Criminal Law, Evidence, and a seminar called Judging and the Judicial Process. His gift to himself upon leaving his deanship will be to add a course on state constitutional law.

Reijer Passchier is a Senior Scientific Staff Member at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy. He is also a Guest Lecturer and Researcher in Comparative Constitutional Law at Leiden University. His primary research interests are constitutional change, comparative constitutionalism and constitutional law and public policy. Reijer published in the Cambridge Journal of Comparative and International Law, the Theory and Practice of Legislation, the Dutch Journal of Constitutional Law, the Buffalo Law Review and other (peer-reviewed) journals.

H.L. Pohlman is A. Lee Fritschler Professor of Public Policy at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His teaching interests include political and legal philosophy, American constitutional law, national security law, and other law-related courses. Pohlman has written or edited a number of books, including Terrorism and the Constitution: The Post-9/11 Cases (2008), a three-volume series of constitutional law textbooks titled Constitutional Debate in Action (2005), Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Free Speech and the Living Constitution (1991), and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Utilitarian Jurisprudence (1984). His most recent publication is an undergraduate textbook titled "U.S. National Security Law: An International Perspective.

Zalman is a nonresident fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center of Stanford Law School, a Faculty Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and an associate at a law firm in New York City. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, where he was Julis-Rabinowitz Fellow, a BA in Jewish Studies and History from Binghamton University, an MA in Philosophy from Yeshiva University, and a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies and Religion from New York University. He was a Tikvah Scholar at the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization at New York University School of Law, a fellow at the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and a visiting fellow at the Center for Comparative Constitutional Law and Religion at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Previously, he was Postdoctoral Researcher at the Herbert D. Katz Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

Christopher Schmidt is a Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and Co-Director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and the Editor of Law & Social Inquiry.

Professor Schmidt received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is the author of The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and is currently writing a book titled Civil Rights: An American History.

Miguel Schor is a Professor of Law and the Associate Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Drake University School of Law. He was the Visiting Director of the Drake Constitutional Law Center in 2010-2011. After graduating from law school, Professor Schor clerked for a federal district court judge in Louisiana and for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He then practiced law in New Orleans, Louisiana, before deciding to ride his bicycle across the United States and embark on a graduate program in Latin American Studies. Professor Schor's research interests have focused on comparative constitutionalism and how law might facilitate development and democratization. His scholarship has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.

He is currently working on two articles and a monograph. The articles are entitled “Trumpism and the Fallacies of Three Constitutionalist Orthodoxies” and “The British Constitution in the American Constitutional Imagination.” The monograph is a comparative study of American constitutionalism entitled “The Constitution from the Outside In.”

Amanda Shanor is an Assistant Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  Her scholarship focuses on constitutional law, particularly the First Amendment and economic ordering.  Shanor is a graduate of Yale Law School and Yale College, and a PhD candidate at Yale University.  She has taught at Yale and Georgetown law schools and published in the New York University Law Review and the Harvard Law Review Forum, among others.  Shanor previously worked in the ACLU’s National Legal Department on its Supreme Court litigation.  She clerked for Judges Pillard and Rogers on the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Sweet in the SDNY.

Maarten Stremler is a PhD researcher and lecturer in constitutional law at the department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg Law School and a guest staff member at the department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden Law School. He is writing a PhD thesis on constitutional oversight by the European Union. Maarten is co-author of a monograph on constitutional preambles. He published in the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, the Dutch Journal of Constitutional Law and other peer-reviewed journals. Furthermore, he is Managing Editor of the European Yearbook of Constitutional Law.

Oren is an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School (HLS), after completing the LLM program there in 2015. Oren holds a bachelor’s degree in law (magna cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Following his graduation, Oren served as a law clerk to Justice Esther Hayut, currently the Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court. Before beginning his graduate studies, Oren worked for three years in the Office of Legal Counsel and Legislative Affairs in the Israeli Ministry of Justice. Oren also writes a legal/political blog in Hebrew which offers analysis of various developments in Israeli and international constitutional politics (the blog can be accessed here).

Mel A. Topf, Ph.D., J.D., is Professor at Roger Williams University. His research includes the role of communication in legitimizing power and authority.  Recent work focuses on state constitutional history.  His book on the history of state supreme court advisory opinions was published by Oxford University Press in 2011.  Articles include “Communicating Legitimacy in U.S. Supreme Court Opinions” and “Fictions and Legitimacy: State Supreme Court Advisory Opinions as Fictional Constructs.”  He also publishes on the political philosopher Hannah Arendt.  Licensed to practice law in Rhode Island and in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Silvio Roberto Vinceti received his J.D. from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) by defending a thesis on “the Uses and Abuses of Legislative Intent”. He continued to study the topic after entering the PhD program in Constitutional Law at the same institution. The title of his PhD thesis is “Intention in the Law. Theoretical Foundations and Constitutional Dimension”.

Silvio Roberto Vinceti is mainly focused on the intersection between constitutional law and philosophy of intention. The research made him interested in the use of psychology for legal inquiry.

Edward specialises in public law, with particular interests in constitutional theory, administrative decision-making, regulation and competition (antitrust) law. Edward's current research interests include the nature of unwritten constitutionalism, the role of public law values in shaping private markets, and regulatory design and implementation.

Dr. Winder completed her doctoral studies at Fordham Law School. Her primary areas of research are administrative law and policy with an emphasis on the federal government's policymaking powers.  Shany holds an LL.B. magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University School of Law and an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a Grotius Fellow. Shany served as a teaching and research fellow at Fordham, Tel Aviv and Bar-Ilan law schools. She presented her work at academic conferences at Harvard Law School, McGill Law School, Emory Law School, and UPenn, among others. Shany is admitted to practice law in New York and Israel.

Mr. Carlo Zayas is a professor at the Law School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, where he teaches courses in Immigration and Citizenship Law; Refugee and Asylum Law; and workshops on Immigration Trial and Appellate Litigation. After completing his LL.M. at Columbia University, Mr. Zayas has focused his scholarly and research agenda in the fields of Immigration Law, Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, and the legal structures of Imperialism and Sovereignty. Mr. Zayas has also litigated extensively as a trial and appellate attorney for private and government clients in local, state and federal courts.