Professor, University of Minnesota Law School
Ilan Wurman is the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches administrative law and constitutional law. He previously taught at Arizona State University. He writes primarily on the Fourteenth Amendment, administrative law, separation of powers, and constitutionalism. His academic writing has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Minnesota Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the Texas Law Review among other journals.
Professor Wurman is the author of a casebook, Administrative Law Theory and Fundamentals: An Integrated Approach (Foundation Press 2d ed. 2024). He is also the author of A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism (Cambridge 2017), and The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (Cambridge 2020). His next book, The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction, is also forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Professor Wurman practices law with the firm Tully Bailey. He has litigated a variety of administrative law and constitutional law cases, including cases involving COVID-19 restrictions, transmission lines, and Appointments Clause challenges. He also devised winning public nuisance theories to force city governments to address the increasingly challenging public camping crises throughout the country.
E.I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law and Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Syracuse University College of Law
Professor Robin Paul Malloy is the E.I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law, and the Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He is a leading expert on property, real estate transactions, land use law and zoning, and on law, markets, and marketization. He has pioneered work on land use and disability law. He is also recognized as a leading legal scholar on the jurisprudence of Adam Smith. Several of his works on market theory and law are translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese. Professor Malloy has published twenty books (four with Cambridge University Press) and over 30 scholarly articles, in addition to numerous book chapters and essays. His latest book is titled Law and the Invisible Hand; A Theory of Adam Smith’s Jurisprudence (Cambridge 2021). He is a series editor on collections for Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and Edward Elgar. Malloy’s casebook on Real Estate Transactions (with Smith, now in its 6th edition) is the leading book on the subject and is used at law schools across the country. His casebook on Land Use Law and Zoning is now in its second edition (with Malagrino). Malloy has been the Sun Life Research Fellow at Oxford University, U.K.; the Dickenson Dees Fellow at University of Durham, U.K.; and for three consecutive summers served as a teaching fellow in China (Beijing and Shanghai) with the Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China. He currently serves on the International Advisory Board for the Law and Economics Program at St. Gallens University, Switzerland, and is a member of the Turin School of Local Regulation, Turin, Italy.
Malloy is the founding president of the Association for Law, Property, and Society. He currently serves on the Board of the Veterans Health Research Institute of CNY. He served on the Board of the National Italian American Bar Association for 20 years and was Vice Chair of the Zoning Board of Appeal for the Town of DeWitt, NY for 10 years. He has also served on numerous committees of the Association of American Law Schools.
Professor of Economics, Trinity University
I am an enthusiastic teacher, and I bring my passion for learning in the classroom. In my research, I work in the history of economic thought, specializing in the 18th century. My focus is on Adam Smith, David Hume, monetary theories, and the Scottish Enlightenment.
I analyze how self-interest interacts with other motivational drives, with systematic biases, and with the surrounding institutional environment. I also explore the links between the Scottish Enlightenment and the results from behavioral economics, evolutionary biology, and neuroeconomics.
I regularly publish in History of Political Economy (HOPE), The Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET), and History of Economic Ideas (HEI). I wrote the Routledge Guidebook of Smith's Wealth of Nations (2020).
The European Society for the History of Economic Thought awarded my HOPE 2008 "The Adam Smith Problem in Reverse: Self-Interest in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, and Theory of Moral Sentiments" the prize of Best Article of Year (2009). I was the book review editor for the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, the vice-president of the History of Economics Society, and i am the current president of the International Adam Smith Society and the current president of the History of Economics Society.
Executive Vice President, The Federalist Society
Dean Reuter is Executive Vice President at the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. He has served in two federal government agency Offices of the Inspector General, as Counsel to the Inspector General and Deputy Inspector General, responsible for policing the use of federal funds granted and contracted through those agencies. As such, he helped conduct and oversee criminal investigations across the country. He is the principal author of the non-fiction book, The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America's Deal with the Devil, and editor of Liberty’s Nemesis: The Unchecked Expansion of the State and Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security. He was appointed by the President and served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and recently served as an appointee on the U.S. Commission on Presidential Scholars. He is a graduate of Hood College (BA with Honors) and the University of Maryland School of Law.
Professor Emeritus, George Mason University
Vernon L. Smith, often called the "father of experimental economics", is a leading scholar celebrated for transforming economics into an experimental science. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his pioneering work in using laboratory experiments to test economic theories, particularly regarding market mechanisms and price formation.
Smith served as Professor of Economics and Law from 2001 to 2008 at George Mason University. He founded the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) at Mason, and served as a fellow of the Mercatus Center. He remains a Professor Emeritus at Mason, where a building on the Arlington campus is named in his honor.
Currently, Smith is a professor at Chapman University within the Argyros School of Business and Economics and the Fowler School of Law. At Chapman, he established the Economic Science Institute, a research center dedicated to the continued study of experimental methods in economics and across other disciplines.
An alum of Caltech (B.S.), the University of Kansas (M.A.), and Harvard University (Ph.D.), Smith has held previous appointments at universities including Purdue, Brown, and the University of Arizona.
The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction
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Grand Forks, NDWhy Adam Smith Still Matters: 250 Years of The Wealth of Nations
Robin P. Malloy, Maria P. Paganelli, Dean Reuter, Vernon L. Smith
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