Judge, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court
Anne Covey is a judge on the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court. She was elected to the court in 2011, and her term expires in January 2022.
University Professor of Law and Religion and Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Michael P. Moreland was appointed University Professor of Law and Religion and Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy at Villanova University in 2017. Professor Moreland joined the Villanova faculty in 2006 and served as Vice Dean from 2012 to 2015. His research is primarily in the areas of torts, law and religion, constitutional law, and Catholic social thought, and he regularly teaches Torts, First Amendment, seminars in law and religion, and undergraduate courses in ethics.
Professor Moreland is the co-editor of Christianity and Private Law (Routledge, 2021), and his most recent publications include: “The Authority of Tradition: John Henry Newman and Legal Theory” in Christianity and the Making of Irish Law (Routledge, 2025); “Christianity and Torts” in The Oxford Handbook on Christianity and Law, (Oxford University Press, 2023); “Germaneness and Religious Liberty” in the Notre Dame Law Review (2023); “Contingency and Contestation in Christianity and Liberalism” in the Notre Dame Law Review (2023); “Friendship as the Primary Purpose of Law” in The American Journal of Jurisprudence 279 (2022); and “The Moral of Torts” (with Jeffrey Pojanowski) in Christianity and Private Law (Routledge, 2021).
Professor Moreland was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame and the Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture from 2015 to 2017. He was the Forbes Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in the James Madison Program during academic year 2010-11. He has served as the project leader for grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation. He serves as the Chair of the Federalist Society’s Religious Liberties Practice Group Executive Committee and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California.
Professor Moreland received his BA in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, his MA and PhD in theological ethics from Boston College, and his JD from the University of Michigan Law School. Following law school, Professor Moreland clerked for the Honorable Paul J. Kelly Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and was an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, DC, where he represented clients in First Amendment, professional liability, and products liability matters. Before coming to Villanova, he served as Associate Director for Domestic Policy at the White House under President George W. Bush, where he worked on a range of legal policy issues, including criminal justice, immigration, civil rights, and liability reform.
President and General Counsel, The Fairness Center
David R. Osborne is President & General Counsel of the Fairness Center. David helped to launch the Fairness Center in 2014 and provides advice and counsel to clients, directs the Fairness Center’s legal strategy, and oversees all litigation efforts. Prior to joining the Fairness Center, David practiced law in Florida, where he had previously served as clerk to a Florida Supreme Court justice.
David received his Juris Doctorate from the Florida State University College of Law, graduating magna cum laude. He enrolled in law school after working as official staff for a Member of Congress from Orlando, Florida.
David is a member of the Pennsylvania and Florida state bars and has been admitted to the federal District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He is based in central Pennsylvania, where he is also president of the Harrisburg Chapter of the Federalist Society and a State Advisory Committee Member for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. David and his wife have been happily married for 11 years and have four children together.
Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
David N. Wecht is a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice. Wecht is one of three Democrats elected to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in November 2015. He was sworn in to office on January 7, 2016, for a term that expires on January 4, 2026.
Judge, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court
Anne Covey is a judge on the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court. She was elected to the court in 2011, and her term expires in January 2022.
University Professor of Law and Religion and Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Michael P. Moreland was appointed University Professor of Law and Religion and Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy at Villanova University in 2017. Professor Moreland joined the Villanova faculty in 2006 and served as Vice Dean from 2012 to 2015. His research is primarily in the areas of torts, law and religion, constitutional law, and Catholic social thought, and he regularly teaches Torts, First Amendment, seminars in law and religion, and undergraduate courses in ethics.
Professor Moreland is the co-editor of Christianity and Private Law (Routledge, 2021), and his most recent publications include: “The Authority of Tradition: John Henry Newman and Legal Theory” in Christianity and the Making of Irish Law (Routledge, 2025); “Christianity and Torts” in The Oxford Handbook on Christianity and Law, (Oxford University Press, 2023); “Germaneness and Religious Liberty” in the Notre Dame Law Review (2023); “Contingency and Contestation in Christianity and Liberalism” in the Notre Dame Law Review (2023); “Friendship as the Primary Purpose of Law” in The American Journal of Jurisprudence 279 (2022); and “The Moral of Torts” (with Jeffrey Pojanowski) in Christianity and Private Law (Routledge, 2021).
Professor Moreland was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame and the Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture from 2015 to 2017. He was the Forbes Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in the James Madison Program during academic year 2010-11. He has served as the project leader for grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation. He serves as the Chair of the Federalist Society’s Religious Liberties Practice Group Executive Committee and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California.
Professor Moreland received his BA in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, his MA and PhD in theological ethics from Boston College, and his JD from the University of Michigan Law School. Following law school, Professor Moreland clerked for the Honorable Paul J. Kelly Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and was an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, DC, where he represented clients in First Amendment, professional liability, and products liability matters. Before coming to Villanova, he served as Associate Director for Domestic Policy at the White House under President George W. Bush, where he worked on a range of legal policy issues, including criminal justice, immigration, civil rights, and liability reform.
President and General Counsel, The Fairness Center
David R. Osborne is President & General Counsel of the Fairness Center. David helped to launch the Fairness Center in 2014 and provides advice and counsel to clients, directs the Fairness Center’s legal strategy, and oversees all litigation efforts. Prior to joining the Fairness Center, David practiced law in Florida, where he had previously served as clerk to a Florida Supreme Court justice.
David received his Juris Doctorate from the Florida State University College of Law, graduating magna cum laude. He enrolled in law school after working as official staff for a Member of Congress from Orlando, Florida.
David is a member of the Pennsylvania and Florida state bars and has been admitted to the federal District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He is based in central Pennsylvania, where he is also president of the Harrisburg Chapter of the Federalist Society and a State Advisory Committee Member for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. David and his wife have been happily married for 11 years and have four children together.
Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
David N. Wecht is a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice. Wecht is one of three Democrats elected to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in November 2015. He was sworn in to office on January 7, 2016, for a term that expires on January 4, 2026.
Former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Ronald Castille was the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He was first elected to the court in 1993. Castille was retained in 2003 and 2013. He retired from the bench in December 2014. He served as chief justice of the court from 2008 until his retirement.
Founder, OGC Law, LLC
Greg Teufel is the founder of OGC Law, LLC. Greg focuses his practice on outside general counsel work, including drafting and negotiating contracts and commercial litigation, including breach of contract disputes, customs litigation, construction litigation, employee benefits disputes and employment disputes. Before founding OGC Law, Greg practiced at several major law firms in Pittsburgh for more than 20 years.
He has trial experience in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and in the Court of International Trade, and has also handled AAA arbitrations. His appellate experience includes arguing before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Ronald Castille was the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He was first elected to the court in 1993. Castille was retained in 2003 and 2013. He retired from the bench in December 2014. He served as chief justice of the court from 2008 until his retirement.
Founder, OGC Law, LLC
Greg Teufel is the founder of OGC Law, LLC. Greg focuses his practice on outside general counsel work, including drafting and negotiating contracts and commercial litigation, including breach of contract disputes, customs litigation, construction litigation, employee benefits disputes and employment disputes. Before founding OGC Law, Greg practiced at several major law firms in Pittsburgh for more than 20 years.
He has trial experience in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and in the Court of International Trade, and has also handled AAA arbitrations. His appellate experience includes arguing before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Executive Director of the Manufacturers’ Accountability Project & Special Counsel to the Manufacturers’ Center for Legal Action, The National Association of Manufacturers
Steven Ferrey is a contracts and environmental law professor at Suffolk University. He is the author of a contract and environmental law book, entitled Aspen, Examples and Explanations. He received his JD from University of California Berkeley and has been a full-time professor since 1989.
Currently, Ferrey is a Senior Counsel at the National Consumer Law Center as well as a professor at Suffolk University Law School.
He has served as a public member on a White House policy review panel (1978–79); as an advisor to the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress; and as a member of the Governor's talk force on hazardous waste for the State of Massachusetts.
Ferrey received his BA from Pomona College and got his MA and JD from the University of California, Berkeley.
His subject expertise is in contracts, environmental law, and energy law.
Special Counsel for the Manufacturers’ Accountability Project (MAP), The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
Professor of Law and Executive Director, Law and Economics Center, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Donald Kochan is Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Law & Economics Center (LEC). Professor Kochan is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and serves as an Adviser to ALI's Restatement of the Law Fourth, Property project. Professor Kochan is a Nonresident Scholar at the Center for the Constitution at Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a Visiting Scholar in residence during Fall 2018. Before joining the Antonin Scalia Law School faculty, he was the Parker S. Kennedy Professor in Law at Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law from 2004 to 2020. From 2003 to 2004, Professor Kochan was an Olin Fellow at the University of Virginia School of Law. During 2002-2003, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason’s Scalia Law School.
Professor Kochan’s scholarship focuses on areas of property law, constitutional law, administrative law, local government law, natural resources and environmental law, and law & economics. He has published several books and more than 50 scholarly articles and essays in well-regarded law journals. His work has been cited in more than a dozen state and federal court opinions, in more than 75 briefs filed in state and federal courts including more than 25 filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, in dozens of books and treatises, and in more than 800 scholarly articles.
Professor Kochan received his JD from Cornell Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics and managing editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. During law school, he also served as editor and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy symposium issues in 1997 and 1998. He received his BA from Western Michigan University, magna cum laude, with majors in both political science and philosophy, where he studied as the John W. Gill Medallion Scholar and was honored as the Presidential Scholar (awarded to the top graduate in the political science department).
After graduating from law school, Professor Kochan was a law clerk to The Honorable Richard F. Suhrheinrich of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Following his clerkship, Professor Kochan was an associate with the firm of Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in natural resources & environmental law as well as tort, products, and consumer civil litigation & legislative affairs.
Kenneth A. Reich is an experienced lawyer with a national practice. He concentrates in environmental and energy law, commercial leasing, environmental and civil litigation. He also counsels and represents clients on local, state and federal regulatory matters and provides general corporate and transactional advice. Mr. Reich is also an experienced trained mediator and a former member of the commercial panel of the American Arbitration Assn. Two of counsel to the firm broaden the Firm's subject matter and geographic scope: Stephen J. Reich, with an office in NYC who concentrates in wills, estates, copyright, trademark and civil litigation; Steve Kalish, a Maryland based energy lawyer with particular experience with FERC issues and natural gas regulation. The firm has the resources of lawyers around the country that it uses on a case by case basis. Mr. Reich has a separate strategic consulting service focusing on environmental and energy regulation, Kenneth Reich Strategic Consulting.
Mr. Reich has managed significant matters on behalf of the federal government as well as in the private sector on behalf of corporate, institutional and public clients. Mr. Reich spent seven years as a trial attorney, then Asst. Chief of the Environmental Enforcement section, Dept. of Justice, Washington D.C., where he represented the EPA and other federal agencies under all major federal environmental statutes. He was a partner and counsel in international, national and regional firms before forming his own firm in 2010 in order to provide quality legal service more cost effectively to his clients.
Mr. Reich is a trained experienced mediator. He is a part-time adjunct faculty at Boston University Law School (seminars on environmental law, alternative dispute resolution).
Distinguished Professor of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School
James R. May is Distinguished Professor of Law, and Chief Sustainability Officer, Widener University (USA). He also serves as co-Director of the Environmental Rights Institute and co-Director of the Dignity Rights Project at Widener University Delaware Law School. May is also an Adjunct Professor of Graduate Engineering, and founded and co-chairs a program on marine policy. May is the editor of Principles of Constitutional Environmental Law (American Bar Association), and co-editor of Shale Gas and the Future of Energy (Edward Elgar), Global Environmental Constitutionalism (Cambridge), Environmental Constitutionalism in Context (Edward Elgar), New Frontiers in Environmental Constitutionalism (United National Environment Programme, forthcoming), Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism(Cambridge, forthcoming), Standards of Environmental Constitutionalism (Cambridge, forthcoming), and Human Rights and the Environment: Indivisibility, Dignity and Legality (Edward Elgar, forthcoming). May is also author or co-author of more than 100 articles and book chapters, and numerous amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. federal courts of appeal on issues including environmental law, constitutional law, comparative constitutional, international environmental law, environmental rights, and human dignity.
May founded two non-profit environmental organizations (the Mid-Atlantic and the Eastern Environmental Law Centers), and has litigated more than 200 public interest environmental claims, including cases throughout the Mid-Atlantic to restore water and air quality, conserve rare species and habitats, and protect biodiversity.
May is a Member of Faculty to the National Judicial College, and a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, for whom he has served as a delegate to Haiti and China. May has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Embassy on legal education in the Philippines, and to the Hungarian Embassy and the Moroccan Human Rights Council on constitutional reform. May is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, serves on numerous boards, and has won numerous awards, including from Pace University, Sierra Club, and the American Canoe Association. He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas (Bowman Scholar), J.D. from the University of Kansas (Appellate Advocacy Scholar and national moot court champion), and LL.M. in Environmental Law from Pace University, where he was the Feldshuh Fellow and graduated first in class.
May is a member of the bar in the State of Pennsylvania, several federal courts of appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Executive Director of the Manufacturers’ Accountability Project & Special Counsel to the Manufacturers’ Center for Legal Action, The National Association of Manufacturers
Steven Ferrey is a contracts and environmental law professor at Suffolk University. He is the author of a contract and environmental law book, entitled Aspen, Examples and Explanations. He received his JD from University of California Berkeley and has been a full-time professor since 1989.
Currently, Ferrey is a Senior Counsel at the National Consumer Law Center as well as a professor at Suffolk University Law School.
He has served as a public member on a White House policy review panel (1978–79); as an advisor to the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress; and as a member of the Governor's talk force on hazardous waste for the State of Massachusetts.
Ferrey received his BA from Pomona College and got his MA and JD from the University of California, Berkeley.
His subject expertise is in contracts, environmental law, and energy law.
Special Counsel for the Manufacturers’ Accountability Project (MAP), The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
Professor of Law and Executive Director, Law and Economics Center, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Donald Kochan is Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Law & Economics Center (LEC). Professor Kochan is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and serves as an Adviser to ALI's Restatement of the Law Fourth, Property project. Professor Kochan is a Nonresident Scholar at the Center for the Constitution at Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a Visiting Scholar in residence during Fall 2018. Before joining the Antonin Scalia Law School faculty, he was the Parker S. Kennedy Professor in Law at Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law from 2004 to 2020. From 2003 to 2004, Professor Kochan was an Olin Fellow at the University of Virginia School of Law. During 2002-2003, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason’s Scalia Law School.
Professor Kochan’s scholarship focuses on areas of property law, constitutional law, administrative law, local government law, natural resources and environmental law, and law & economics. He has published several books and more than 50 scholarly articles and essays in well-regarded law journals. His work has been cited in more than a dozen state and federal court opinions, in more than 75 briefs filed in state and federal courts including more than 25 filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, in dozens of books and treatises, and in more than 800 scholarly articles.
Professor Kochan received his JD from Cornell Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics and managing editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. During law school, he also served as editor and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy symposium issues in 1997 and 1998. He received his BA from Western Michigan University, magna cum laude, with majors in both political science and philosophy, where he studied as the John W. Gill Medallion Scholar and was honored as the Presidential Scholar (awarded to the top graduate in the political science department).
After graduating from law school, Professor Kochan was a law clerk to The Honorable Richard F. Suhrheinrich of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Following his clerkship, Professor Kochan was an associate with the firm of Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in natural resources & environmental law as well as tort, products, and consumer civil litigation & legislative affairs.
Kenneth A. Reich is an experienced lawyer with a national practice. He concentrates in environmental and energy law, commercial leasing, environmental and civil litigation. He also counsels and represents clients on local, state and federal regulatory matters and provides general corporate and transactional advice. Mr. Reich is also an experienced trained mediator and a former member of the commercial panel of the American Arbitration Assn. Two of counsel to the firm broaden the Firm's subject matter and geographic scope: Stephen J. Reich, with an office in NYC who concentrates in wills, estates, copyright, trademark and civil litigation; Steve Kalish, a Maryland based energy lawyer with particular experience with FERC issues and natural gas regulation. The firm has the resources of lawyers around the country that it uses on a case by case basis. Mr. Reich has a separate strategic consulting service focusing on environmental and energy regulation, Kenneth Reich Strategic Consulting.
Mr. Reich has managed significant matters on behalf of the federal government as well as in the private sector on behalf of corporate, institutional and public clients. Mr. Reich spent seven years as a trial attorney, then Asst. Chief of the Environmental Enforcement section, Dept. of Justice, Washington D.C., where he represented the EPA and other federal agencies under all major federal environmental statutes. He was a partner and counsel in international, national and regional firms before forming his own firm in 2010 in order to provide quality legal service more cost effectively to his clients.
Mr. Reich is a trained experienced mediator. He is a part-time adjunct faculty at Boston University Law School (seminars on environmental law, alternative dispute resolution).
Distinguished Professor of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School
James R. May is Distinguished Professor of Law, and Chief Sustainability Officer, Widener University (USA). He also serves as co-Director of the Environmental Rights Institute and co-Director of the Dignity Rights Project at Widener University Delaware Law School. May is also an Adjunct Professor of Graduate Engineering, and founded and co-chairs a program on marine policy. May is the editor of Principles of Constitutional Environmental Law (American Bar Association), and co-editor of Shale Gas and the Future of Energy (Edward Elgar), Global Environmental Constitutionalism (Cambridge), Environmental Constitutionalism in Context (Edward Elgar), New Frontiers in Environmental Constitutionalism (United National Environment Programme, forthcoming), Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism(Cambridge, forthcoming), Standards of Environmental Constitutionalism (Cambridge, forthcoming), and Human Rights and the Environment: Indivisibility, Dignity and Legality (Edward Elgar, forthcoming). May is also author or co-author of more than 100 articles and book chapters, and numerous amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. federal courts of appeal on issues including environmental law, constitutional law, comparative constitutional, international environmental law, environmental rights, and human dignity.
May founded two non-profit environmental organizations (the Mid-Atlantic and the Eastern Environmental Law Centers), and has litigated more than 200 public interest environmental claims, including cases throughout the Mid-Atlantic to restore water and air quality, conserve rare species and habitats, and protect biodiversity.
May is a Member of Faculty to the National Judicial College, and a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, for whom he has served as a delegate to Haiti and China. May has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Embassy on legal education in the Philippines, and to the Hungarian Embassy and the Moroccan Human Rights Council on constitutional reform. May is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, serves on numerous boards, and has won numerous awards, including from Pace University, Sierra Club, and the American Canoe Association. He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas (Bowman Scholar), J.D. from the University of Kansas (Appellate Advocacy Scholar and national moot court champion), and LL.M. in Environmental Law from Pace University, where he was the Feldshuh Fellow and graduated first in class.
May is a member of the bar in the State of Pennsylvania, several federal courts of appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jeremy Kidd graduated in 2007 with honors from George Mason University School of Law, where he was Executive Editor for the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy. He holds a BA in economics and political science and a Ph.D. in economics from Utah State University.
After law school, he practiced as a real estate associate with Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Washington, D.C. and later as a litigation associate with Strong & Hanni in Salt Lake City, Utah. He clerked for the Honorable Ted Stewart on the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah and the Honorable Alice Batchelder, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Professor Kidd's primary teaching interests are in the areas of business associations, torts, contracts, and law and economics. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at George Mason University School of Law and has taught courses in business law and economics at Utah State University and Weber State University.
President, Center for Individual Rights
Todd Gaziano is the President of the Center for Individual Rights. Mr. Gaziano received his J.D. in 1988 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. He received his B.A. from West Virginia University, summa cum laude in 1985. He was selected as a Truman Scholar from West Virginia while an undergraduate.
Mr. Gaziano’s previous legal work includes service as a law clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones, as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, as a chief subcommittee counsel in the U.S. House of Representatives, as a Houston trial attorney, and as a chief corporate legal officer. He also served a six-year term as commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (2008-2013), where he helped conduct oversight and investigations of civil rights agencies.
For most of the last 25 years, Mr. Gaziano was a legal scholar and public interest law leader, promoting individual liberty in the Supreme Court and Congress. From 1997 to 2013, he was the founding director of the Edwin Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. From 2014 until he joined CIR, he was the Chief of Legal Policy and Strategic Research, and Director of the Center for the Separation of Powers, at Pacific Legal Foundation.
Associate Professor, Northern Illinois University
Evan Bernick joined the NIU Law faculty in 2021. He teaches courses in constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure, administrative law and legislation.
From 2020 to 2021, Professor Bernick was a visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and the executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Before that, he served as a clerk to Judge Diane S. Sykes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. From April 2017 to April 2019, he was a visiting lecturer at Georgetown and a resident fellow of the Center for the Constitution.
His scholarship covers a range of topics, from constitutional law, to philosophy of law, to social movements, to law enforcement. He has published with the Georgetown Law Journal, the Notre Dame Law Review, the William and Mary Law Review and the George Mason Law Review, among other journals. His book, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit (2021), with Randy E. Barnett, was published by Harvard University Press under its Belknap imprint "for books of long-lasting importance, superior in scholarship and physical production, chosen whether or not they might be profitable."
Professor Bernick received his bachelor's degree in 2008 from the University of Chicago, where he studied philosophy and graduated with honors. He received his juris doctorate in 2011 from the University of Chicago Law School.
Assistant Professor, Legal Studies & Business Ethics, The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
Amanda Shanor is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, where her scholarship focuses on constitutional and administrative law, and in particular the First Amendment.
Shanor is a graduate of Yale Law School and Yale College, and a PhD candidate in law at Yale University. She served as a law clerk to Judges Cornelia T.L. Pillard and Judith W. Rogers on the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Robert W. Sweet in the Southern District of New York. She has taught at both Yale and Georgetown law schools and has published in the New York University Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among others. She is a contributor to Take Care and the co-author of a textbook on counterterrorism law.
Prior to joining the academy, Amanda worked in the National Legal Department of the American Civil Liberties Union on the organization’s Supreme Court litigation, including Masterpiece Cakeshop. Previously, she litigated a number of constitutional and national security cases with Professor David Cole, including Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder, while a fellow at Georgetown.
Panel 1: Approaches to Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation
Anne E. Covey, Michael P. Moreland, David R. Osborne, David N. Wecht
2018 Pennsylvania Chapters Conference
On October 19, 2018, the Federalist Society's Pennsylvania chapters hosted the 2018 Pennsylvania Chapters Conference...
Panel 1: Approaches to Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation
Anne E. Covey, Michael P. Moreland, David R. Osborne, David N. Wecht
2018 Pennsylvania Chapters Conference
On October 19, 2018, the Federalist Society's Pennsylvania chapters hosted the 2018 Pennsylvania Chapters Conference...
Opening Address by Ronald D. Castille
Ronald D. Castille, Gregory H. Teufel
2018 Pennsylvania Chapters Conference
On October 19, 2018, the Federalist Society's Pennsylvania chapters hosted the 2018 Pennsylvania Chapters Conference...
Opening Address by Ronald D. Castille
Ronald D. Castille, Gregory H. Teufel
2018 Pennsylvania Chapters Conference
On October 19, 2018, the Federalist Society's Pennsylvania chapters hosted the 2018 Pennsylvania Chapters Conference...
Public Nuisance, Climate Change, and Municipal Litigation
Lindsey M. De La Torre, Steven Ferrey, Philip S. Goldberg, Donald J. Kochan, Kenneth Reich, James R. May
Boston Lawyers Chapter
In the past few years, a series of lawsuits have been filed by cities and...
Public Nuisance, Climate Change, and Municipal Litigation
Lindsey M. De La Torre, Steven Ferrey, Philip S. Goldberg, Donald J. Kochan, Kenneth Reich, James R. May
Boston Lawyers Chapter
In the past few years, a series of lawsuits have been filed by cities and...
The Federalist Paper, Fall 2018
This summer marked the end of the Supreme Court’s 2017-18 Term, and we have already...
Topics
Federalism and the Race to 5G Wireless Networks
The Federal Communications Commission recently acted to promote 5G deployment in its wireless infrastructure Declaratory...
Frank v. Gaos [SCOTUSbrief]
Jeremy Kidd
Short video featuring Jeremy Kidd
In 2012, three plaintiffs sued Google on behalf of 129 million Americans whose privacy was...
Necessary & Proper Episode 29: Is the Nondelegation Doctrine Really Dead?
Todd F. Gaziano, Evan D. Bernick, Amanda Shanor
On October 4, the Georgetown Chapter held an event titled "Is the Nondelegation Doctrine Really...