William Forbath came to Texas in 1997 after more than a decade on the faculties of law and history at UCLA. Among the nation's leading legal and constitutional historians, he is the author of Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (Harvard, 1991), the forthcoming The Constitution of Opportunity (Harvard,2015)(with Joseph Fishkin) and dozens of articles, book chapters, and essays on legal and constitutional history and theory. His scholarly work appears in Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry, and the Journal of American History; his journalism at Politico.com and in the New York Times, American Prospect and the Nation. His current research concerns social and economic rights in the courts and social movements of the Southern Hemisphere, and Jews, law and identity politics in the Progressive Era. Professor Forbath visited at Columbia Law School in 2001-02 and at Harvard Law School in 2008-09. He is on the Editorial Boards of Law & History, Law & Social Inquiry: Journal of the American Bar Foundation, and other journals, and on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Legal History, Texas Low-Income Housing Information Services, and other public interest organizations.

Michelle Goldberg became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in 2017. She is the author of three books: “Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism,” “The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World,” and “The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West.” Her first book was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, and her second won the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award.

Previously she was a columnist at Slate. A frequent commentator on radio and television, Goldberg’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian and many other publications, and she's reported from countries including India, Iraq, Egypt, Uganda, Nicaragua and Argentina.

Mark Graber is the Regents Professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. He writes on constitutional history, constitutional development, constitutional theory, constitutional law and on almost any other matter in which constitution is used as a adjective. He is presently finishing an anthology with Mark Tushnet and Sandy Levinson on Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? (Oxford) and much to the dismay of the University Press of Kansas not finished a contracted book on the constitutional politics underlying the post-Civil War amendments.

Ran Hirschl (PhD, Yale) is Professor of Political Science and Law, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His research interests focus on comparative public law, and in particular the intersection of comparative politics and comparative constitutionalism. He is the author of four books: City, State: Comparative Constitutionalism and the Mega-City (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2019); Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2014 & 2016)—winner of the 2015 APSA C. Herman Pritchett Award for the best book on law & courts; Constitutional Theocracy (Harvard University Press, 2010)—winner of the 2011 Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory; and Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2004 & 2007), as well as over one hundred articles and book chapters on comparative constitutionalism and judicial review, the political sociology of public law, the judicialization of politics, constitutional law and religion, and the intellectual history of comparative constitutional inquiry published in scholarly venues such as Comparative Politics, Law & Social Inquiry, Political Theory, Human Rights Quarterly, Constellations, Annual Review of Political Science, the Oxford Handbook of Law & Politics, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Revue Francaise de Science Politique, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Harvard International Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and the American Journal of Comparative Law.

Samuel Issacharoff is the Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law. His wide-ranging research deals with issues in civil procedure (especially complex litigation and class actions), law and economics, constitutional law, particularly with regard to voting rights and electoral systems, and employment law. He is one of the pioneers in the law of the political process, where his Law of Democracy casebook (co-authored with Stanford’s Pam Karlan and NYU’s Rick Pildes) and dozens of articles have helped to create a vibrant new area of constitutional law. He is also a leading figure in the field of procedure, both in the academy and outside. He served as the reporter for the Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation of the American Law Institute.

Issacharoff is a 1983 graduate of the Yale Law School. After clerking, he spent the early part of his career as a voting rights lawyer. He then began his teaching career at the University of Texas in 1989, where he held the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law. In 1999, he moved to Columbia Law School, where he was the Harold R. Medina Professor of Procedural Jurisprudence. His published articles appear in every leading law review, as well as in leading journals in other fields. Issacharoff is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Vicki C. Jackson, Thurgood Marshall Professor of Constitutional Law, writes and teaches about U.S. constitutional law and comparative constitutional law. She is the author of Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era (2010), and coauthor, with Mark Tushnet, of Comparative Constitutional Law (3d ed. 2014), a leading course book in the field. She has written on constitutional aspects of federalism, gender equality, election law, free speech, sovereign immunity, courts and judicial independence, methodological challenges in comparative constitutional law, and other topics. Her other books include Federalism (with Susan Low Bloch, coauthor) (2013), two edited collections, Federal Courts Stories (2010) (with Judith Resnik, co-editor), and Defining the Field of Constitutional Law (2002) (with Mark Tushnet, co-editor), and another course book, Inside the Supreme Court: The Institution and Its Procedures (2d ed., 2008) (with Susan Low Bloch and Thomas G. Krattenmaker). Her scholarly projects include normative conceptions of the role of elected representatives in a democracy; proportionality in constitutional law and interpretation; gender equality and the interaction of international and domestic law; and the co-evolution of the constitutionalization of international law and the internationalization of constitutional law. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS), and has served on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law, on the Board of Managerial Trustees of the International Association of Women Judges, as Chair of the Federal Courts Section of the AALS, and on the D.C. Bar Board of Governors. She has also practiced law, in private practice, and as a government lawyer in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Heinz Klug is Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Growing up in Durban, South Africa, he participated in the anti-apartheid struggle, spent 11 years in exile and returned to South Africa in 1990 as a member of the ANC Land Commission and researcher for Zola Skweyiya, chairperson of the ANC Constitutional Committee. He was also a team member on the World Bank mission to South Africa on Land Reform and Rural Restructuring. He has taught at Wisconsin since September 1996.

Professor Klug taught law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg from 1991-1996, offering courses on Public International Law, Human Rights Law, Property Law, Post-Apartheid Law and Introduction to South African Law, among others. He also worked as a legal advisor after 1994 with the South African Ministry of Water Affairs and Forestry as well as the Ministry of Land Affairs on water law and land tenure issues.

Professor Klug has presented lectures and papers on the South African constitution, land reform, and water law, among other topics, in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, Germany, South Africa, the Netherlands, and at several U.S. law schools. His research interests include: constitutional transitions, constitution-building, human rights, international legal regimes and natural resources. His current teaching areas include Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Property, and Natural Resources Law.

Hanna Lerner is a senior lecturer in political science at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on comparative constitution making, religion and democracy, international labor rights and global governance. She is the author of Making Constitutions in Deeply Divided Societies (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and coeditor of Global Justice and International Labour Rights (with Yossi Dahan and Faina Milman-Sivan, Cambridge University Press, 2016), Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy (with Aslı Ü. Bâli, Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Comparative Constitution Making (with David Landau, Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2019). Currently she is writing a book manuscript (with Yossi Dahan and Faina Milman-Sivan) on responsibility towards workers’ rights in transnational supply chains (under contract with Cambridge University Press). She is also working on a new research project on international constitutional advising, mapping all organizations involved in foreign constitutional consulting.
Lerner received her PhD in political science from Columbia University and held visiting fellowships at the Institute of International and Regional Studies, Princeton University and at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 2014 she co-convened a research group on Religion, Constitutionalism and Human Rights at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld University, Germany.

Russell Miller joined the Washington and Lee law faculty in 2008. His teaching and scholarly research focuses on public law subjects (Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, International Law), Comparative Law Theory and Methods, and German Law and Legal Culture. Previously, he taught at the University of Idaho College of Law. He often has been a guest professor in Germany. Alongside his work at the School of Law, Professor Miller has a joint-appointment as Lecturer in Literature in Washington and Lee University's undergraduate College. In that position he works extensively with colleagues and students in W&L's German and Russian Department.

Jan-Werner Müller's research interests include the history of modern political thought, democratic theory, constitutionalism, religion and politics, and the normative dimensions of European integration.

Professor Müller has been a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, the Remarque Institute, NYU, and the European University Institute, Florence; he has also been a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study Princeton. He has taught as a visiting professor at the EHESS, Paris, Sciences Po, Paris, as well as Humboldt University, Berlin, and LMU, Munich. In 2011 he delivered the Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought at Oxford University and in 2017 the Tanner Lectures at Cambridge University. At Princeton Jan-Werner Müller directs the Project in the History of Political Thought at the University Center for Human Values.

Professor Perju is the Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College and Professor of Law at Boston College Law School.  His primary research and teaching interests include the law of the European Union, comparative constitutional law and theory, international and comparative law and jurisprudence.

At Boston College, he teaches courses in the Law of the European Union, American and Comparative Constitutional Law, The Past and Future of the State, as well as advanced seminars on European Integration and Modern Legal Theory.

Scot Peterson is Departmental Lecturer in British Politics, in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. He specializes in the constitutional history and politics of the United Kingdom and the United States and in particular on church-state relations and constitutional stability and entrenchment. In the United Kingdom his focus is on the national churches of England, Scotland and Wales, and in the United States he focuses on non-establishment and religious freedom. He has published in law journals and social science journals in both countries, and he authored with Iain McLean Legally Married: Love and Law in the UK and the US (Edinburgh, 2013). He is also a visiting lecturer at Charles University, Prague, where he teaches UK politics.

Monika Polzin is a Junior Professor of Public Law with a focus on Public International Law at the University of Augsburg and currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Göttingen. Her research focuses in particular on constitutional identity, international treaty and economic law, and the methodology of international law (interpretation). She has published in national and international peer-reviewed journals and written articles in English, German, and French. Her most important recent work include Constitutional Identity as a Constructed Reality and a Restless Soul (German Law Journal 2017, pp. 1595-1616), Constitutional Identity, Unconstitutional Amendments and the Idea of Constituent Power – the Development of the Doctrine of Constitutional Identity in German Constitutional Law (I•CON 2016, pp. 411- 434), and the book on “Verfassungsidentität” (“Constitutional Identity”, Mohr Siebeck 2018).

Monika was a Hugo Grotius Scholar at NYU, a Visiting Professor of Public International Law at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and acted as a legal expert for the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council. Currently, she is working on interpretation and the legitimacy of international courts and writing an article about “Authentic Interpretations and International Courts – Like Calvin and Hobbes or Tom and Jerry?”.

Wojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor in Jurisprudence. He also holds a position of Professor in the Centre for Europe in the University of Warsaw, and was visiting professor (in 2010, 2011 and 2012) at the University of Trento, Italy and in Cardozo Law School in New York. In 2013/2014 he is Straus Fellow and Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School. In Spring term, 2015, he was Visiting Professor at Yale Law School.

He was Professor of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law in the Department of Law, European University Institute in Florence (1999-2009), and served as head of department of Law at the EUI in 2003-2006. He also taught as visiting professor at a number of universities in Europe, Asia and the United States. He has written extensively on philosophy of law, political philosophy and comparative constitutional law.

Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She joined the Princeton faculty in 2005 after nearly a decade on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she was the John J. O'Brien Professor of Comparative Law. Scheppele's work focuses on the intersection of constitutional and international law, particularly in constitutional systems under stress. After 1989, Scheppele studied the emergence of constitutional law in Hungary and Russia, living in both places for extended periods. After 9/11, Scheppele researched the effects of the international "war on terror" on constitutional protections around the world. Her many publications on both post-1989 constitutional transitions and on post-9/11 constitutional challenges have appeared in law reviews, social science journals and multiple languages. In the last two years, she has been a public commentator on the transformation of Hungary from a constitutional-democratic state to one that risks breaching constitutional principles of the European Union.

Miguel Schor is a Professor of Law at Drake. 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 an edited book with Professor Gary Jacobsohn entitled, “Comparative Constitutional Theory.” He is also working on three articles and a monograph. The articles are entitled “Constitutional Dialogue and Judicial Supremacy;” “Why a Written Constitution? Two Conceptions of Constitutionalism;” and “American Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective.” The monograph is a comparative study of American constitutionalism entitled “The Constitution From the Outside In.”

Ayelet Shachar is Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism, and Professor of Law, Political Science, and Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. She has published and lectured widely on citizenship theory, immigration law, multiculturalism, cultural diversity and women's rights, law and religion in comparative perspective, highly skilled migration and global inequality.

Shachar is the author of Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2001), for which she won the American Political Science Association 2002 Foundations of Political Theory Section Best First Book Award. This work has inspired a new generation of thinking about how to best mitigate the tensions between gender equality and religious diversity. It has also proved influential in the real world, intervening in actual public policy and legislative debates. It has been cited extensively, most recently, by England's Archbishop of Canterbury (who described Shachar's work as "highly original and significant"), Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

Kristen A. Stilt is Professor of Law and also Faculty Director of the Animal Law & Policy Program and Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program.

Stilt’s research focuses on Islamic law and society in both historical and contemporary contexts. She also writes in the area of Animal Law, and the intersection of animal law and religion and culture in particular.

She was named a Carnegie Scholar for her work on constitutional Islam, and in 2013 was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. She has also received awards from Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays.

Stilt received a JD from The University of Texas School of Law, where she was an associate editor of the Texas Law Review and co-editor-in-chief of the Texas Journal of Women in the Law. Stilt holds a PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University.

Professor Tulis's interests bridge the fields of political theory and American politics, including more specifically, American political development, constitutional theory, political philosophy and the American presidency. His publications include The Presidency in the Constitutional Order (LSU, 1981; Transaction, 2010), The Constitutional Presidency (Johns Hopkins, 2009), The Limits of Constitutional Democracy (Princeton, 2010), and The Rhetorical Presidency, (Princeton, 1987, Princeton Classics edition, 2017). Four collections of essays on The Rhetorical Presidency with responses by Tulis have been published, including a special double issue of Critical Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics and Society, (2007), where his book is described as "one of the two or three most important and perceptive works written by a political scientist in the twentieth century." It received the American Political Science Association's Legacy Award in 2018. His most recent book (co-authored with Nicole Mellow) is Legacies of Losing in American Politics (Chicago, 2018).

Mark Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of four casebooks, including the most widely used casebook on constitutional law, has written numerous books, including a two-volume work on the life of Justice Thurgood Marshall and, most recently, Advanced Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law, In the Balance: The Roberts Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, Why the Constitution Matters, and Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Perspective, and has edited several others. He was President of the Association of American Law Schools in 2003. In 2002 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sergio Verdugo (JSD, LLM, LLB) is a Professor of Constitutional Law and Comparative Law at Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. He is also a researcher of the ‘Centro de Justicia Constitucional.’ His research interests include constitutional theory, the politics of constitutional courts, comparative constitutional law, comparative politics and constitutionalism in Latin America.

Mila Versteeg joined the Law School in 2011. Her research and teaching interests include comparative constitutional law, public international law and empirical legal studies. Most of her research deals with the origins, evolution and effectiveness of provisions in the world’s constitutions. Her publications have, amongst others, appeared in the California Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Law and Economics, the American Journal of International Law, and the Journal of Law, Economics and Organizations. A number of her works have been translated into Chinese, Portuguese and Turkish.