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Andrew Koppelman

Andrew Koppelman

John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

Biography

Andrew Koppelman is John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science, and Philosophy Department Affiliated Faculty at Northwestern University.  He received the Walder Award for Research Excellence from Northwestern, the Hart-Dworkin award in legal philosophy from the Association of American Law Schools, and the Edward S. Corwin Prize from the American Political Science Association.  His scholarship focuses on issues at the intersection of law and political philosophy.  He has written more than 100 scholarly articles and eight books, most recently Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed, (St. Martin’s Press).  His column appears regularly at The Hill.  You can find his recent work at andrewkoppelman.com.

 

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Randy J. Kozel

Randy J. Kozel

Associate Dean for Faculty Development; Diane and M.O. Miller II Research Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School

Biography

Randy Kozel joined the Law School faculty in 2011. He was named the Distinguished Teacher of the Year by the Class of 2014. He also directs the Notre Dame Program on Constitutional Structure. 

Kozel teaches and researches in fields including constitutional law, federal courts, information privacy, and contract law, with a particular focus on the role of precedent in legal decision making. His recent scholarship exploring the connection between precedent and interpretive philosophy has been published or is forthcoming in journals including the Northwestern University Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the California Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Texas Law Review. His book, entitled Settled Versus Right: A Theory of Precedent, makes the case for using precedent to bridge interpretive disagreements. 

Kozel received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was the Articles Committee Chair of the Harvard Law Review. He served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and for Judge Alex Kozinski at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He has also practiced as a litigator with a large law firm and as Special Counsel to the General Counsel at General Electric Company.

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Chad A. Readler

Chad A. Readler

Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

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Judge Readler earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Michigan. After graduating, he served as a law clerk to Judge Alan Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Judge Readler then began practicing law in the Columbus office of the international law firm Jones Day, eventually spending ten years as a partner in the firm’s Issues and Appeals Practice Group. While at Jones Day, Judge Readler appeared in state and federal trial and appellate courts around the country, most frequently the Supreme Court of Ohio and the Sixth Circuit. Judge Readler also successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court in McQuiggin v. Perkins on behalf of an inmate claiming actual innocence. His other pro bono representations include representing capital defendants before the Tenth Circuit and the Supreme Court of Ohio, as well as representing defendants sentenced to life in prison before the Sixth Circuit. While at Jones Day, Judge Readler traveled to Nairobi with Lawyers Without Borders to train Kenyan lawyers in prosecuting domestic violence cases, and he was also a recipient of the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship awarded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Following his career in private practice, Judge Readler served as Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice from 2017 to 2019. In that role, Judge Readler led and supervised over 1,000 lawyers in the Department’s largest litigating division, briefing and arguing several cases on behalf of the United States in federal courts across the country, including high-profile cases significant to the Administration and the Department.  In March 2019, Judge Readler was confirmed to serve as a Circuit Judge on the Sixth Circuit.  He resides in Columbus.

 

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Andrea R. Lucas

Andrea R. Lucas

Chair, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Biography
Andrea Lucas has served on the EEOC since 2020, when she was nominated by President Trump during his first term and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Commissioner. President Trump designated her to lead the Commission in January 2025, and she recently was reconfirmed by the Senate for a term expiring in 2030. As part of her work educating employers, employees, and other stakeholders about the laws the EEOC enforces, she writes and speaks frequently about hot topics in employment and civil rights laws, including DEI, women’s sex-based rights, religious liberty, and pregnancy discrimination and accommodation.
 
Previously, she practiced employment law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C. Lucas is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia School of Law, and clerked on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
 
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Kimberly A. Yuracko

Kimberly A. Yuracko

Judd and Mary Morris Leighton Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Biography

Kimberly Yuracko is a nationally recognized expert in antidiscrimination law. Her scholarship explores the demands of antidiscrimination law across categories and contexts. She is most interested in what nondiscrimination requires with respect to individuals and groups that are different in relevant ways. Her research has touched on some of the most pressing policy questions of recent years and has been impactful beyond the walls of the academy. Her book, Gender Nonconformity and the Law, explores courts’ expanding protection for gender nonconformists and the limitations of the current approach. The book won a Choice Award. Her work on Title IX explores how athletic opportunities should be allocated across sex-segregated sports teams. Her more recent Title IX work focuses on athletic opportunities for transgender girls. Her work on homeschooling explores the extent to which state constitutional rights to education require regulation or oversight of homeschooling. Her work on tort law, with Ronen Avraham, challenges the common use of race- and sex- based actuarial tables to calculate tort damages. Yuracko and Avraham published an Op Ed based on their research, The Use of Sex-Based Data To Calculate Damages is a Stain on Our Legal System, in the Washington Post. Their torts work has also been translated into Japanese. Yuracko is the author of numerous articles and is a co-author on two casebooks, Employment Law Cases and Materials, and Feminist Jurisprudence Cases and Materials.

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