Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law Houston
Josh Blackman is a national thought leader on constitutional law and the United States Supreme Court. Josh’s work was quoted during two presidential impeachment trials. He has testified before Congress and advises federal and state lawmakers. Josh regularly appears on TV, including NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and the BBC. Josh is also a frequent guest on NPR and other syndicated radio programs. He has published commentaries in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and leading national publications.
Since 2012, Josh has served as a professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston. He holds the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law. Josh is an Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Josh has written more than seven dozen law review articles that have been cited more than a thousand times. Josh was selected as the Jurist of the Year by the Texas Journal of Law & Public Policy, received the inaugural Meese III Originalism Award, and was awarded the Inaugural Joseph Story Award. Josh was selected by Forbes Magazine for the “30 Under 30” in Law and Policy. Josh is the President of the Harlan Institute, and founded FantasySCOTUS, the Internet’s Premier Supreme Court Fantasy League. He blogs at the Volokh Conspiracyand posts@JoshMBlackman.
Partner, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Erika C. Birg is a partner based out of the Atlanta office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. She focuses her practice on helping companies protect their businesses before, during, and after litigation, with experience in resolving business-to-business disputes through litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and state and federal appeals involving business torts, contract disputes, trade secrets, misappropriation, computer fraud, and non-compete matters.
Arbitrator, Attorney & Former Professor of ADR Law
Richard D. Faulkner, J.D., LL.M., F.C.I.Arb., Dip.Intl.Com.Arb., is a former Professor of Alternate Dispute Resolution Law, former Tutor - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, North American Branch, and practices arbitration, commercial, and insurance law in Dallas. He has been a trial judge in Louisiana and Texas, counsel or arbitrator in hundreds of domestic arbitrations, counsel or arbitrator in international arbitrations, authored arbitration briefs in U.S. Supreme Court, argued or briefed arbitration issues in federal and state appellate courts, and authored or coauthored numerous articles on arbitration. He is a contributing author to ABA reference "How Arbitration Works," 6th Ed.
President, Committee for Justice
Curt Levey is President of the Committee For Justice, an organization devoted to advancing constitutionally limited government and individual liberty. He is a veteran of Supreme Court and other judicial confirmation battles and serves on the executive committee of the Federalist Society's Civil Rights Practice Group.
After graduating Harvard Law School with honors and clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mr. Levey served as Director of Legal & Public Affairs at the Center for Individual Rights (CIR). There he worked on landmark Supreme Court cases, including the University of Michigan affirmative action cases and the successful constitutional challenge to the Violence Against Women Act. After CIR, Mr. Levey headed the Title IX policy group at the U.S. Department of Education.
Before attending law school, Mr. Levey earned an M.S. and B.A. in computer science from Brown University and worked in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). He invented a new type of AI technology, for which he wrote a successful patent application.
Partner, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Erika C. Birg is a partner based out of the Atlanta office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. She focuses her practice on helping companies protect their businesses before, during, and after litigation, with experience in resolving business-to-business disputes through litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and state and federal appeals involving business torts, contract disputes, trade secrets, misappropriation, computer fraud, and non-compete matters.
Arbitrator, Attorney & Former Professor of ADR Law
Richard D. Faulkner, J.D., LL.M., F.C.I.Arb., Dip.Intl.Com.Arb., is a former Professor of Alternate Dispute Resolution Law, former Tutor - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, North American Branch, and practices arbitration, commercial, and insurance law in Dallas. He has been a trial judge in Louisiana and Texas, counsel or arbitrator in hundreds of domestic arbitrations, counsel or arbitrator in international arbitrations, authored arbitration briefs in U.S. Supreme Court, argued or briefed arbitration issues in federal and state appellate courts, and authored or coauthored numerous articles on arbitration. He is a contributing author to ABA reference "How Arbitration Works," 6th Ed.
Partner, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Erika C. Birg is a partner based out of the Atlanta office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. She focuses her practice on helping companies protect their businesses before, during, and after litigation, with experience in resolving business-to-business disputes through litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and state and federal appeals involving business torts, contract disputes, trade secrets, misappropriation, computer fraud, and non-compete matters.
Arbitrator, Attorney & Former Professor of ADR Law
Richard D. Faulkner, J.D., LL.M., F.C.I.Arb., Dip.Intl.Com.Arb., is a former Professor of Alternate Dispute Resolution Law, former Tutor - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, North American Branch, and practices arbitration, commercial, and insurance law in Dallas. He has been a trial judge in Louisiana and Texas, counsel or arbitrator in hundreds of domestic arbitrations, counsel or arbitrator in international arbitrations, authored arbitration briefs in U.S. Supreme Court, argued or briefed arbitration issues in federal and state appellate courts, and authored or coauthored numerous articles on arbitration. He is a contributing author to ABA reference "How Arbitration Works," 6th Ed.
President, Committee for Justice
Curt Levey is President of the Committee For Justice, an organization devoted to advancing constitutionally limited government and individual liberty. He is a veteran of Supreme Court and other judicial confirmation battles and serves on the executive committee of the Federalist Society's Civil Rights Practice Group.
After graduating Harvard Law School with honors and clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mr. Levey served as Director of Legal & Public Affairs at the Center for Individual Rights (CIR). There he worked on landmark Supreme Court cases, including the University of Michigan affirmative action cases and the successful constitutional challenge to the Violence Against Women Act. After CIR, Mr. Levey headed the Title IX policy group at the U.S. Department of Education.
Before attending law school, Mr. Levey earned an M.S. and B.A. in computer science from Brown University and worked in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). He invented a new type of AI technology, for which he wrote a successful patent application.
President, Committee for Justice
Curt Levey is President of the Committee For Justice, an organization devoted to advancing constitutionally limited government and individual liberty. He is a veteran of Supreme Court and other judicial confirmation battles and serves on the executive committee of the Federalist Society's Civil Rights Practice Group.
After graduating Harvard Law School with honors and clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mr. Levey served as Director of Legal & Public Affairs at the Center for Individual Rights (CIR). There he worked on landmark Supreme Court cases, including the University of Michigan affirmative action cases and the successful constitutional challenge to the Violence Against Women Act. After CIR, Mr. Levey headed the Title IX policy group at the U.S. Department of Education.
Before attending law school, Mr. Levey earned an M.S. and B.A. in computer science from Brown University and worked in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). He invented a new type of AI technology, for which he wrote a successful patent application.
Partner, Fusion Law, PLLC
Paul is the founding partner of Fusion Law, PLLC. He has extensive experience with state, federal, and global regulators building coalitions and implementing policies to promote innovation in financial services. He is responsible for designing and implementing the first state (Arizona) and federal (CFPB) FinTech sandboxes in the United States. He also designed the CFPB no-action letter and trial disclosure policies. He helped found the first global regulatory innovation coalition (Global Financial Innovation Network) and led the founding of the first U.S. regulatory innovation coalition (American Consumer Financial Innovation Network). He served on the Financial Stability Oversight Council subcommittee on digital assets. He also has drafted state-level laws on blockchain and utility tokens.
Paul also has significant enforcement and litigation experience. He led many multi-state consumer protection enforcement matters as Civil Litigation Division Chief at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
Prior to his government service, Paul practiced law in the areas of securities litigation and transactional work for approximately six years at two well-known law firms. He also clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Associate, Maynard Nexsen
Danielle is an Associate in Maynard Nexsen’s Cybersecurity & Privacy practice group. She utilizes her background in legislative and regulatory policy to advise companies in the rapidly evolving landscape of data privacy.
Before joining Maynard Nexsen, Danielle served as Senior Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services’s Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion, where she advanced legislation to regulate cryptocurrencies. She also worked for a consulting firm providing regulatory strategy and compliance services to clients in the financial services industry. While in law school, Danielle worked in the office of Commissioner Hester Peirce at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Prior to attending law school, Danielle served as tax policy advisor to Senator Patrick Toomey and tax legislative assistant for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means. She also worked as a Tax Associate for a Big Four accounting firm.
Danielle holds a J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. She earned her B.S., summa cum laude, in Commerce and Business Administration from the University of Alabama, where she also earned her Master of Tax Accounting. Danielle is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Virginia.
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