Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, born in San Francisco in 1938, is a graduate of Stanford University, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School. He taught law for many years as a professor at Harvard Law School and at the Kennedy School of Government. He has also worked as a Supreme Court law clerk for Justice Arthur Goldberg, a Justice Department lawyer in the antitrust division, an Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1980 he was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit by President Carter, becoming Chief Judge in 1990. In 1994 he was appointed a Supreme Court Justice by President Clinton.

Andrew Allen was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1995 and Allen practices as a barrister from The Chambers of Philip Mott QC, Outer Temple Chambers, which is primarily based in the jurisdictions of England and Wales but have recently opened an annex in Abu Dhabi.

Allen was Deputy Director of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at the University of London 1996-1999, which publishes the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law edited by His Honour Professor Judge Eugene Cotran and Professor Chibli Mallat.

Professor Douglas Berman is the William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law at Ohio State University. He studied law at Harvard University where he was was the Editor and Developments Office Chair of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, Berman served as a law clerk for Judge Jon O. Newman and then for Judge Guido Calabresi, both on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After clerking, Berman was a litigation associate at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison in New York City. 

Erwin Chemerinsky, a nationally renowned professor of constitutional law and federal civil procedure at Duke University, was named founding dean of UC Irvine’s law school, effective July 1, 2008. Chemerinsky has been the Alston & Bird Professor of Law and professor of political science at Duke University from 2004 to 2008. Previously he was the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics & Political Science at the University of Southern California Law School for 21 years, and director of the university’s Center for Communications Law & Policy from 2000 to 2004. He also served as a professor at DePaul College of Law from 1980 to 1983, and practiced law as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice and at Dobrovir, Oakes & Gebhart in Washington, D.C.

Thomas Clare is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis with a wide range of experience in commercial litigation and defamation matters. He has successfully litigated antitrust, contract, insurance, product liability, securities, telecommunication, tort, and trade secret claims in federal and state courts throughout the United States.

Paul D. Clement serves at Georgetown University Law as a visiting professor and senior fellow at the law school's Supreme Court Institute, after recently stepping down as Solicitor General of the United States. He was the 43rd Solicitor General of the United States, nominated by President George W. Bush and taking office 2005.

Marc Falkoff teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, the federal courts, and lawyering skills at Northern Illinois University. Prior to joining the law faculty in 2006, he was an associate at Covington & Burling, where he specialized in white collar criminal defense. Since 2004 Professor Falkoff has been a principal lawyer in the habeas representation of more than a dozen prisoners being held by the U.S. military at Guantánamo Bay on suspicion of involvement with terrorism. For this work, Covington named him the Charles F.C. Ruff Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year in 2005. Along with other habeas counsel, he also received the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award from the Southern Center for Human Rights in 2007. He served as Habeas Corpus Special Master for the Eastern District of New York from 2003 to 2004, and authored Habeas Corpus Training Materials, a primer used by court personnel. He writes and speaks frequently about rule of law issues in the context of the war on terror.

Assistant United States Attorney Laura Fashing is assigned to the Appellate Section of the District of New Mexico’s United States Attorney’s Office.  She has filed approximately 200 appellate briefs and argued roughly 100 cases before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.  She previously served as Assistant Attorney General for the state of New Mexico, and as a litigation associate at Hufstedler, Kaus & Ettinger of Los Angeles, California.  Ms. Fashing received her Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley where she was Senior Articles Editor for the California Law Review from 1988-1989.

David Getches is Dean of the University of Colorado Law School.  He also holds the title of Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law and has taught and written in Indian law, water law, public land law, and environmental law.  From 1983-1987, Dean Getches served as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources under Governor Richard D. Lamm.  Getches was the founding Executive Director of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) where he developed the staff, funding, and program of this national, nonprofit Indian-interest law firm.  Major cases he litigated for NARF included a Northwest Indian fishing rights case (United States v. Washington, also known as “the Boldt decision”) and a case on behalf of Eskimos to establish the North Slope Borough, the largest municipality in the world, which includes the Prudhoe Bay oil fields.  His other cases dealt with water rights, land claims, federal trust responsibilities, environmental issues, education, and civil rights on behalf of Native American clients throughout the West.

Gerald “Gerry” Harris Goldstein is a nationally known and respected defense lawyer and Past President of both the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Texas Lawyer’s Legal Legends, has been profiled in numerous publications, has served as an adjunct professor of law at University of Texas School of Law in Austin and at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, and is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is also Board Certified in Criminal Law.

George M Haley's practice emphasis is complex commercial litigation.  Haley is a well-seasoned trial and appellate lawyer. He was recognized by Chambers USA as one of Utah's leading litigators. He was also recognized as one of the country's top 500 litigators by Lawdragon Magazine. He was the American Board of Trial Advocate's 2003 Utah Trial Lawyer of the Year.

Melissa Hart has been an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School since 2001, teaching civil procedure, employment discrimination, and legal ethics and professional responsibility. Her scholarship focuses on employment discrimination and class action litigation. She received her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude. After clerking for Judge Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit and for Justice John Paul Stevens on the United States Supreme Court, Professor Hart practiced law for several years in Washington, D.C. She worked first in the Issues and Appeals section of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue and then as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice.

University of Oklahoma College of Law Professor Taiawagi Helton teaches Environmental Law, Property, and Indian Law. Helton received his Master of Law degree from Yale Law School in 2001 after earning a juris doctorate at the University of Tulsa College of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Tulsa Law Journal and earned membership in the Order of the Curule Chair and Phi Kappa Phi.

Helton began his legal career as a clerk for the Honorable Robert H. Henry, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He has lectured extensively on topics relating to Native American issues and has served as a Special Justice for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Supreme Court. A member of the Board of Directors of Oklahoma Indian Legal Services, Helton’s recent publications include “The Foundations of Federal Indian Law and Its Application in the Twentieth Century,” in Daniel M. Cobb & Loretta Fowler, eds., Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 (SAR Press 2007) (co-author).

Richard Holme has a wide-ranging commercial litigation practice with the Denver law firm of Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP.  He has tried a large number of civil and criminal jury trials, numerous trials to courts, and several major arbitrations.  For the last 14 years he has been appointed to serve as a member of the Colorado Supreme Court Standing Committee on Civil Rules.  His interest in rules of procedure has lead him to draft and obtain adoption of several major revisions to key rules of the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure.

Philip K. Howard, Founder and Chair of Common Good, is the author of The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America (Random House 1995) and The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom (Ballantine 2002). He is a periodic contributor to the op-ed pages of The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and speaks before judicial, government, and professional organizations around the country. In the Oxford Companion To American Law, Howard contributed the section on American law since 1968. He is the Vice-Chairman of Covington & Burling and a prominent civic leader in New York.

David K. Isom is co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's national e-Discovery & e-Retention Practice Group. He focuses on large commercial litigation, both as lead trial counsel and as electronic discovery counsel. Isom consults throughout the country on electronic discovery and data retention and destruction. Isom has published numerous articles on electronic discovery, including "Electronic Discovery Primer for Judges," and has presented at seminars on electronic discovery and document retention in Japan and throughout the United States. He is co-editor of the American Bar Association’s recent book Information Security Guidelines for Lawyers and Law Firms.

Sherman A. Jackson is a visiting professor of law and professor of afro-american studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. He has taught at the Wayne State University, Indiana University and the University of Texas at Austin. He has also served as Executive Director of the Center of Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo, Egypt.

District Judge Marcia S. Krieger serves on the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, having been appointed in 2002. She previously served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Colorado from 1994, and was a member of the Tenth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel from 2001 until becoming a district judge. She is a founding member of Our Courts, a joint undertaking with the Colorado Judicial Institute and the Colorado Bar Association to foster increased public understanding of the court system. She currently serves on the Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on Information and Technology and the 10^th Circuit Automation Committee, and the District of Colorado Automation Committee. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado.

David A. Kubichek is an Assistant United States Attorney currently residing in Casper, Wyoming, with his wife and two children. Mr. Kubichek earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1977 from Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska. He has been an Assistant United States Attorney since 1988, and is currently the Appellate Chief and Senior Litigation Counsel for the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Wyoming.

Dr. Laurie Leshin became the Deputy Center Director for Science and Technology at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in January 2008. In this position, she is third in command of NASA’s largest science center, and she leads Center strategy formulation, science, and technology investment activities. She first joined NASA in August 2005 as the Director of Sciences and Exploration at NASA Goddard. In this capacity, she led the largest science organization within NASA, with responsibility for ensuring the scientific integrity of Earth observing missions, space-based telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, and instruments exploring the Moon, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, comets and more. These NASA Goddard missions seek to answer some of the most fundamental questions we can ask: How did we get here? What is our destiny? Are we alone? She also plays a science leadership role on NASA’s Lunar Architecture Team, charting the Agency’s plans for exploration of the Moon, and engaging the science community in formulation of our science agenda for the Moon.

 Dahlia Lithwick, is a senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate.com where she writes and edits the columns "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence." She is a weekly legal commentator for the NPR show, Day to Day and a biweekly columnist for Newsweek. A graduate of Yale College and Stanford Law School, she clerked for Procter R Hug, then-chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1996. Lithwick’s work has appeared in Harpers, Commentary, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. She was awarded the Online News Association's award for online Supreme Court commentary in 2001, and again in 2005 for a torture series she coauthored for Slate.

Dr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist, and author of The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life and co-author of the national bestseller The Power of Full Engagement- Managing Energy, not Time, is the key to High Performance and Personal Renewal. Loehr appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show where an entire program was devoted to his ground-breaking Energy Management training system and concepts. He has also appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS Morning News. Loehr’s work has been chronicled in leading national publications including the Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, US News and World Report, Success, Fast Company and Omni.

Loehr has worked with hundreds of world-class performers from the arenas of sport, business, medicine and law enforcement including Fortune 100 executives, FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, and Army Special Forces. His elite clients from the world of sport include: golfer Mark O’Meara; tennis players, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario; boxer Ray Mancini; hockey players Eric Lindros and Mike Richter; and Olympic gold medal speed skater Dan Jansen.

Carey Matovich has a broad-based civil and appellate practice in Billings, Montana, with emphasis on insurance and employment law. She has served as lead counsel in the defense of a number of complex disputes, ranging from unfair insurance trade practices, employment discrimination matters, and professional negligence claims to contract disputes. In addition, she is frequently asked to act as a mediator in various matters.

Suzanne Mitchell, originally from Bronxville, NY, has worked as a Senior Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert H. Henry, now Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, since late 1999.  As a law clerk, she manages the chamber’s caseload, oversees the training of new law clerks, drafts speeches, organizes and presents at various legal educational events, and drafts opinions that cover a wide range of federal and state law issues.  Working with the Article III Division of the Administrative Office, she has also coordinated several visits of judicial delegations from Russia and Afghanistan to the United States.  She graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and received her law degree from George Washington University, graduating magna cum laude.  Suzanne is a member of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Safekids Coalition, the Redbud Foundation, the Oklahoma Visual Art Coalition, and is also a volunteer for the Georgetown Alumni Admissions Program, and various local charities.

Professor Jeffrey W. Morris has been on the faculty of the University of Dayton School of Law since 1981, and in 2004 he was appointed to the Samuel A. McCray Chair in Law.

Victoria Parks has been with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals for over 18 years; 14 years as an attorney with the Office of Staff Counsel, and four in her current position as Deputy Circuit Executive. The Office of the Circuit Executive processes and handles all complaints of judicial misconduct or disability against judges in the Tenth Circuit, and Vicky spearheads that effort as support staff for both Chief Judge Robert Henry and the Judicial Council of the Tenth Circuit. Before joining the U.S. Courts, Vicky practiced with Davis, Graham, & Stubbs. She received her J.D. from University of Denver Law School.

Dr. Drummond Rennie, MD, MACP, FRCP was educated at Cambridge University and Guy's Hospital Medical School, London, where he carried out research into cyanotic congenital heart disease and received his Cambridge MD for this. Having been Deputy Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine when at Harvard, Rennie is now the Deputy Editor (West), Journal of the American Medical Association, and an adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco.

Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at GeorgeWashingtonUniversity and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. His new book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America, and is the companion book to the PBS series on the Supreme Court. He is also the author of The Most Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and The Unwanted Gaze.

Professor Saltzburg joined the George Washington Law faculty in 1990. Before that, he had taught at the University of Virginia School of Law beginning in 1972, and was named the first incumbent of the Class of 1962 Endowed Chair there. In 1996, he founded and began directing the master’s program in Litigation and Dispute Resolution at George Washington University. Professor Saltzburg served as reporter for and then as a member of the advisory committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and as a member of the advisory committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence. He was the reporter for the Civil Justice Reform Act Committee for the District of Columbia District Court before he assumed the chair of that committee. He has served as a special master in two class action cases in the District of Columbia District Court, and continues to serve as a mediator for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He also has mediated a wide variety of disputes involving public agencies as well as private litigants; has served as a sole arbitrator, panel chair, and panel member in domestic arbitrations; and has served as an arbitrator for the International Chamber of Commerce.

Shira A. Scheindlin is a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on July 28, 1994. On the subject of electronic records management, the opinions in Zubulake v.UBS Warburg LLC have come to be recognized as case law landmarks.

D. Culver "Skip" Smith III is a litigation partner in Fox Rothschild LLP in the firm's West Palm Beach office.  Smith has forty years of experience in a wide variety of litigation and appellate matters as well as in matters involving legal ethics and professional discipline.  Smith is past president of the Palm Beach County Bar- Association and served two terms on the Florida Bar Board of Governors. He is a past chairman of the Florida Bar Professional Ethics Committee (two terms) and has served on and chaired a Florida Bar Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Review of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct in 1983-1984 and more recently on the bar's Special Committee to Review the ABA Model Rules 2002. He served as Vice Chairman of the Florida Bar Special Commission on Professionalism and of the Florida Bar Standing Committee on Professionalism and was the principal author of the Florida Bar Ideals and Goals of Professionalism and Creed of Professionalism. He is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and serves on that organization's Legal Ethics and Professionalism Committee. He has written and lectured extensively on lawyer ethics and professional responsibility, including authoring Chapter 1, "Theories of Liability," of the fourth edition.

Professor Ori Z. Soltes is Goldman Professorial Lecturer in Theology and Fine Arts at Georgetown University, and the former director and curator of the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, where he curated over 80 exhibitions. He has taught and lectured in 23 other universities and museums throughout the country, on subjects ranging from the Arab-Israeli conflict to The Body in Ancient Art. Both before and since his years as a museum director, he has guest-curated exhibitions across the United States and overseas that have focused on diverse aspects of both Western art throughout the ages and art beyond the West from across the world.

Stuart S. Taylor, Jr. is a weekly opinion columnist for National Journal and contributing editor for Newsweek, writing about legal, policy and political issues of national and international importance. Some of his columns are republished by legal publications including Legal Times. He has won various journalism awards and appeared on all major television and radio networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," Court TV, C-Span, National Public Radio, BBC, Canadian Broadcasting, and Australian Broadcasting. He is also a nonresident senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and co-author, with K.C. Johnson, of a critically acclaimed 2007 book, Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.

John H. Tucker is a partner in Rhodes, Hieronymus, Jones, Tucker & Gable, P.L.L.C. in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he specializes in civil litigation, trial practice, and appellate practice. He is currently a regent of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a master of the American Inns of Court, chairman of the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Committee for the Northern District of Oklahoma, a fellow of the Oklahoma and American Bar Foundations, and a Senior Adjunct Settlement Judge on Special Projects for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. He served as the Samuel Gates Committee chairman and the state chairman of the American College of Trial Lawyers, as state chair of the United States Supreme Court Historical Society and as the Oklahoma delegate to the Tenth Circuit Advisory Committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals. He is also a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American Board of Trial Advocates.

Tucker received his Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma.

Lee R. West was appointed U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma on November 5, 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in June of 1956. He was selected by the faculty as the Outstanding Graduate of his law school class, served as editor of the Oklahoma Law Review, and was named to the Order of the Coif. Judge West received a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Law teaching at Harvard Law School, where he received an LLM in 1963.  He also served as an Oklahoma State Trial Judge from 1965 to 1973.

Jill Wichlens has been an appellate lawyer in the Denver Federal Public Defender’s Office for 18 years.  She received her B.A. from Colorado College, Juris Doctor from Washington University School of Law, and LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.  Prior to joining the Denver Federal Public Defender, she was a trial attorney in the Raleigh, North Carolina Federal Public Defender’s Office, an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown Law, and law clerk to Judge Herbert Maletz of the United States District Court in Baltimore.  She currently serves on the Tenth Circuit’s Criminal Jury Instructions Committee and the Defender’s Supreme Court Resource and Assistance Panel.  In 2003, she argued before the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Patane, a Miranda case.

Kenneth J. Withers is Director of Judicial Education and Content for The Sedona Conference, an Arizona-based non-profit law and policy think-tank on the forefront of issues involving technology, civil justice, intellectual property, and antitrust law. He has published several widely-distributed papers on electronic discovery.