President, America First Legal Foundation
Gene Hamilton is the President of America First Legal, which he co-founded, and where he was previously the Executive Director, Executive Vice President, and General Counsel. He most recently served as Deputy White House Counsel to President Donald Trump. Earlier in his career, Gene served as Counselor to Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice and as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security. He also served as General Counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee and held several roles at the Department of Homeland Security, including with U.S. Immigration Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Office of the General Counsel. He holds a B.A. from the University of Georgia and a J.D. from Washington and Lee University School of Law.
Judge, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
Judge Katsas was appointed to the D.C. Circuit in December 2017. He graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, where he was an executive editor on the Harvard Law Review. Between 1989 and 1992, he served as a law clerk to Judge Edward Becker on the Third Circuit, to then-Judge Clarence Thomas on the D.C. Circuit, and to Justice Thomas on the Supreme Court. Between 1992 and 2001, he was an associate and then partner in the Washington office of Jones Day, where he specialized in appellate and complex civil litigation. Between 2001 and 2009, he served in many senior positions in the Department of Justice, including as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division and as Acting Associate Attorney General. In 2009, he returned to Jones Day. From January to December 2017, he served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President.
Before joining the bench, Judge Katsas argued more than 75 appeals, including three cases in the Supreme Court, 13 cases in the D.C. Circuit, and cases in every other federal court of appeals. By appointment of the Chief Justice, he served on the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules from 2013 to 2017. In 2016, he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.
Interim Dean and Levin, Mabie, & Levin Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Merritt E. McAlister is the Interim Dean and Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor at Levin College of Law. She joined the UF Law faculty in 2018, and she was appointed interim dean in June 2023. Prior to her career in academia, Dean McAlister was a partner in the national appellate practice group of King & Spalding.
Dean McAlister clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge R. Lanier Anderson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She received her bachelor’s degree in English and Women and Gender Studies, magna cum laude, from Rice University and her law degree summa cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she served as Executive Articles Editor of the Georgia Law Review.
Dean McAlister teaches and writes in the areas of federal courts, judicial decision-making, constitutional law, and court administration. Her scholarship focuses on issues of institutional design in the federal appellate courts. Dean McAlister’s work has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Northwestern University Law Review, among others. In 2020, she received the annual prize from the AALS Federal Courts Section for the best paper on federal courts by an untenured professor.
Chief Deputy Attorney General
Ryan Newman is currently Chief Deputy Attorney General for Florida Office of the Attorney General.
During the first Trump Administration, he served as Counselor to the United States Attorney General for national security and international affairs, Deputy General Counsel (Legal Counsel) for the Department of Defense, and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice. Prior to serving in the Executive Branch, Ryan was Chief Counsel to United States Senator Ted Cruz during the 114th Congress.
Ryan served as a law clerk to the Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the United States Supreme Court, the Honorable Richard J. Leon on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and the Honorable J.L. Edmondson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Prior to law school, Ryan was an armor officer in the United States Army assigned to the 1st Squadron, 10th U.S. Cavalry Regiment (Buffalo Soldiers). He deployed to Iraq in 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Ryan graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1998. He earned his law degree with high honors from The University of Texas School of Law in 2007.
Chief Counsel, Office of the Attorney General of Alabama
Katherine Robertson serves as Chief Counsel to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a position she has held for nearly a decade.
Robertson holds a B.S. in political science from Auburn University and a J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law. She began her career at the U.S. Department and later served U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions as legislative counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Upon returning to Alabama, she served as Vice President of the Alabama Policy Institute—a think tank founded to promote free markets, limited government, and strong families.
Since assuming the role of Chief Counsel in 2017, Robertson has played a significant role in crafting and executing Attorney General Marshall’s agenda related to criminal justice, religious liberty, protecting women and girls, free speech, and the sanctity of life. Over the years, Robertson has led her office with a mandate to make her state safer and her country freer and has done so with a relentless pursuit of state sovereignty and a revival of federalism. She has proudly been a part of the Federalist Society community since law school.
Beyond the Attorney General’s Office, Robertson serves on the board of Cornerstone Schools of Alabama, a private Christian school serving students in inner-city Birmingham, and on the board of Oak Hill Classical Academy. She was appointed by Governor Kay Ivey to the Alabama Fair Ballot Commission and the Alabama Women’s Commission, and serves on the board of directors for Alabama’s only crime-victims advocacy nonprofit, VOCAL. Katherine and her husband, Ryan, reside in Birmingham and have two young children.
Partner, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC
Mr. Weir is an experienced litigator who focuses on constitutional and regulatory matters. He has particular expertise in cases involving the First and Fourteenth Amendments, civil rights statutes, and challenges to federal agency actions. He has briefed and presented oral argument in state and federal courts across the country, including in the Supreme Court of the United States. He was trial counsel and part of the team that prevailed before the Supreme Court in the landmark case Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard College and University of North Carolina.
Since 2015, Mr. Weir has been an adjunct professor for the Administrative Law and Supreme court clinics at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He is a former law clerk to Judge Carlos T. Bea of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Anthony J. Trenga of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He earned his A.B. cum laude from Georgetown University and his J.D. summa cum laude from George Mason University School of Law.
Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University ; Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University
Charlie Capps is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and an affiliated member of the philosophy faculty at ASU’s School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies. He teaches courses on criminal law, constitutional law, and jurisprudence, and his research focuses on the intersection of law and philosophy, especially the role of moral responsibility in criminal law, the debate between positivism and natural-law theory in general jurisprudence, and theories of constitutional and statutory interpretation. Prior to joining ASU, Professor Capps was an Associate Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School and Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Missouri. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Raymond W. Gruender on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He holds a JD with honors from the University of Chicago Law School and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Chicago.
Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Center on the Structural Constitution, Texas A&M University School of Law
Katherine Mims Crocker is a Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center on the Structural Constitution at Texas A&M University School of Law. She is also an affiliate of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Her scholarship focuses on federal courts, civil-rights litigation, constitutional law, and state and local-government law. She has also taught courses in civil procedure, property, and judicial decision making. Professor Crocker has published papers (or has work forthcoming) in leading journals including the Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Washington University Law Review.
Before joining Texas A&M, Professor Crocker was on the faculty at William & Mary Law School and completed a fellowship at Duke Law School. She also practiced at McGuireWoods LLP in Richmond, Virginia, where she concentrated on appellate litigation. Professor Crocker clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She received her law degree from the University of Virginia, where she graduated first in her class and was an Articles Development Editor on the Virginia Law Review. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University cum laude.
Assistant Professor of Law and, by courtesy, Computer Science, University of Nebraska College of Law; Nonresident Fellow, Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science & Technology
Professor Dickinson is an Assistant Professor of Law University of Nebraska College of Law, where he teaches Contracts, Business Torts and Unfair Competition, The Common Law, and Remedies. He is also a nonresident fellow with the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science and Technology and holds a JD from Harvard Law School. Before teaching, Professor Dickinson practiced at Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston and at law firms in Rochester, New York, with a year in between as a law clerk for Judge Richard C. Wesley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor Dickinson's research focuses on the interaction between private law and technology. One major area of interest is how the common law responds to technological innovation and can be harnessed to complement the more particular statutory and regulatory schemes layered atop it. A second branch of his work explores how the tools of machine learning and artificial intelligence can be brought to bear on traditional legal questions. Through computational analysis of large bodies of case law his research seeks to provide a more systematic view of our legal system and doctrines and to guide legal reforms and policy decisions. His work appears in leading journals including the Boston College Law Review, the Stanford Technology Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Legislation, and the Administrative Law Review.
Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Jonathan Green is an Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University teaching Civil Procedure and Statutory Interpretation. His scholarship focuses on the history of political and legal thought. He is especially interested in the history of constitutionalism, theories of interpretation, and the concept of judicial power. His research has been published in the Arizona State Law Journal, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Modern Intellectual History, and the Historical Journal.
Prior to joining the ASU faculty in 2024, Professor Green was a Harry A. Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago. He previously clerked for Judge Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked as a litigation associate at DLA Piper in Philadelphia.
Professor Green holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he was a joint recipient of Prince Consort & Thirwall Prize, awarded annually for the best dissertation in the Cambridge History Faculty. He also received his MPhil from Cambridge, and earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Northwestern University.
Interim Dean and Levin, Mabie, & Levin Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Merritt E. McAlister is the Interim Dean and Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor at Levin College of Law. She joined the UF Law faculty in 2018, and she was appointed interim dean in June 2023. Prior to her career in academia, Dean McAlister was a partner in the national appellate practice group of King & Spalding.
Dean McAlister clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge R. Lanier Anderson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She received her bachelor’s degree in English and Women and Gender Studies, magna cum laude, from Rice University and her law degree summa cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she served as Executive Articles Editor of the Georgia Law Review.
Dean McAlister teaches and writes in the areas of federal courts, judicial decision-making, constitutional law, and court administration. Her scholarship focuses on issues of institutional design in the federal appellate courts. Dean McAlister’s work has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Northwestern University Law Review, among others. In 2020, she received the annual prize from the AALS Federal Courts Section for the best paper on federal courts by an untenured professor.
Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law
Professor of Law and Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Professor Stinneford teaches and writes about legal ethics, criminal law, criminal procedure, and constitutional law. His work has been cited by the United States Supreme Court, several state supreme courts and federal courts of appeal, and numerous scholars. It has published in numerous scholarly journals including the Georgetown Law Journal, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the William & Mary Law Review. The Stanford-Yale Junior faculty forum selected one of his articles as the best paper in the category of Constitutional History, and the AALS Criminal Justice Section named another article as the best paper in its Junior Scholars Paper Competition. In the fall of 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown Law Center, Center for the Constitution.
Before joining the Florida faculty in 2009, Stinneford clerked for the Hon. James Moran of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, served as an Assistant United States Attorney, and practiced law with Winston & Strawn in Chicago. Stinneford teaches first-year courses in Criminal Law and Constitutional Law, and upper-level courses in Professional Responsibility, Criminal Procedure, Federal Criminal Law, Law & Literature, and White Collar Crime.
Professor of Law and Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Professor Stinneford teaches and writes about legal ethics, criminal law, criminal procedure, and constitutional law. His work has been cited by the United States Supreme Court, several state supreme courts and federal courts of appeal, and numerous scholars. It has published in numerous scholarly journals including the Georgetown Law Journal, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the William & Mary Law Review. The Stanford-Yale Junior faculty forum selected one of his articles as the best paper in the category of Constitutional History, and the AALS Criminal Justice Section named another article as the best paper in its Junior Scholars Paper Competition. In the fall of 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown Law Center, Center for the Constitution.
Before joining the Florida faculty in 2009, Stinneford clerked for the Hon. James Moran of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, served as an Assistant United States Attorney, and practiced law with Winston & Strawn in Chicago. Stinneford teaches first-year courses in Criminal Law and Constitutional Law, and upper-level courses in Professional Responsibility, Criminal Procedure, Federal Criminal Law, Law & Literature, and White Collar Crime.
Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University ; Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University
Charlie Capps is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and an affiliated member of the philosophy faculty at ASU’s School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies. He teaches courses on criminal law, constitutional law, and jurisprudence, and his research focuses on the intersection of law and philosophy, especially the role of moral responsibility in criminal law, the debate between positivism and natural-law theory in general jurisprudence, and theories of constitutional and statutory interpretation. Prior to joining ASU, Professor Capps was an Associate Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School and Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Missouri. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Raymond W. Gruender on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He holds a JD with honors from the University of Chicago Law School and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Chicago.
Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Center on the Structural Constitution, Texas A&M University School of Law
Katherine Mims Crocker is a Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center on the Structural Constitution at Texas A&M University School of Law. She is also an affiliate of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Her scholarship focuses on federal courts, civil-rights litigation, constitutional law, and state and local-government law. She has also taught courses in civil procedure, property, and judicial decision making. Professor Crocker has published papers (or has work forthcoming) in leading journals including the Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Washington University Law Review.
Before joining Texas A&M, Professor Crocker was on the faculty at William & Mary Law School and completed a fellowship at Duke Law School. She also practiced at McGuireWoods LLP in Richmond, Virginia, where she concentrated on appellate litigation. Professor Crocker clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She received her law degree from the University of Virginia, where she graduated first in her class and was an Articles Development Editor on the Virginia Law Review. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University cum laude.
Assistant Professor of Law and, by courtesy, Computer Science, University of Nebraska College of Law; Nonresident Fellow, Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science & Technology
Professor Dickinson is an Assistant Professor of Law University of Nebraska College of Law, where he teaches Contracts, Business Torts and Unfair Competition, The Common Law, and Remedies. He is also a nonresident fellow with the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science and Technology and holds a JD from Harvard Law School. Before teaching, Professor Dickinson practiced at Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston and at law firms in Rochester, New York, with a year in between as a law clerk for Judge Richard C. Wesley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor Dickinson's research focuses on the interaction between private law and technology. One major area of interest is how the common law responds to technological innovation and can be harnessed to complement the more particular statutory and regulatory schemes layered atop it. A second branch of his work explores how the tools of machine learning and artificial intelligence can be brought to bear on traditional legal questions. Through computational analysis of large bodies of case law his research seeks to provide a more systematic view of our legal system and doctrines and to guide legal reforms and policy decisions. His work appears in leading journals including the Boston College Law Review, the Stanford Technology Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Legislation, and the Administrative Law Review.
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law and Director, Classical Liberal Institute, New York University School of Law; Director, Classical Liberal Institute, Civitas Institute University of Texas at Austin
Richard A. Epstein is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, at New York University, a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas Austin, and a senior Lecturer, the University of Chicago. He received an LL.D., h.c . from the University of Ghent, 2003 , and an LLD h.c . from the University of Siegen in 2018 and the Bradley Prize in 2011. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985. He has edited both the Journal of Legal Studies (1981-1991) and the Journal of Law and Economics (1991-2001). He is also a founder and director of the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU Law School. His most recent book is The Classical Liberal Constitution: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government (2014). His other books include Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain ( 1985); Bargaining with the State (1993); Simple Rules for a Complex World (1995); Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty and the Common Good (1998); Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Theory of Classical Liberalism (2003); Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration and the Rule of Law (2011), and most recently, The Myth of Birthright citizenship—and Beyond (2026). He has taught courses in , administrative law, antitrust, constitutional, contracts, environmental law, land use planning; real property, torts and water law. He has written and spoken extensively on a wide range of topics, and is writes a regular column for Defining Ideas.
Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Jonathan Green is an Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University teaching Civil Procedure and Statutory Interpretation. His scholarship focuses on the history of political and legal thought. He is especially interested in the history of constitutionalism, theories of interpretation, and the concept of judicial power. His research has been published in the Arizona State Law Journal, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Modern Intellectual History, and the Historical Journal.
Prior to joining the ASU faculty in 2024, Professor Green was a Harry A. Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago. He previously clerked for Judge Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked as a litigation associate at DLA Piper in Philadelphia.
Professor Green holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he was a joint recipient of Prince Consort & Thirwall Prize, awarded annually for the best dissertation in the Cambridge History Faculty. He also received his MPhil from Cambridge, and earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Northwestern University.
Interim Dean and Levin, Mabie, & Levin Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Merritt E. McAlister is the Interim Dean and Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor at Levin College of Law. She joined the UF Law faculty in 2018, and she was appointed interim dean in June 2023. Prior to her career in academia, Dean McAlister was a partner in the national appellate practice group of King & Spalding.
Dean McAlister clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge R. Lanier Anderson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She received her bachelor’s degree in English and Women and Gender Studies, magna cum laude, from Rice University and her law degree summa cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she served as Executive Articles Editor of the Georgia Law Review.
Dean McAlister teaches and writes in the areas of federal courts, judicial decision-making, constitutional law, and court administration. Her scholarship focuses on issues of institutional design in the federal appellate courts. Dean McAlister’s work has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Northwestern University Law Review, among others. In 2020, she received the annual prize from the AALS Federal Courts Section for the best paper on federal courts by an untenured professor.
Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University ; Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University
Charlie Capps is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and an affiliated member of the philosophy faculty at ASU’s School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies. He teaches courses on criminal law, constitutional law, and jurisprudence, and his research focuses on the intersection of law and philosophy, especially the role of moral responsibility in criminal law, the debate between positivism and natural-law theory in general jurisprudence, and theories of constitutional and statutory interpretation. Prior to joining ASU, Professor Capps was an Associate Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School and Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Missouri. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Raymond W. Gruender on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He holds a JD with honors from the University of Chicago Law School and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Chicago.
Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Center on the Structural Constitution, Texas A&M University School of Law
Katherine Mims Crocker is a Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center on the Structural Constitution at Texas A&M University School of Law. She is also an affiliate of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Her scholarship focuses on federal courts, civil-rights litigation, constitutional law, and state and local-government law. She has also taught courses in civil procedure, property, and judicial decision making. Professor Crocker has published papers (or has work forthcoming) in leading journals including the Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Washington University Law Review.
Before joining Texas A&M, Professor Crocker was on the faculty at William & Mary Law School and completed a fellowship at Duke Law School. She also practiced at McGuireWoods LLP in Richmond, Virginia, where she concentrated on appellate litigation. Professor Crocker clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She received her law degree from the University of Virginia, where she graduated first in her class and was an Articles Development Editor on the Virginia Law Review. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University cum laude.
Assistant Professor of Law and, by courtesy, Computer Science, University of Nebraska College of Law; Nonresident Fellow, Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science & Technology
Professor Dickinson is an Assistant Professor of Law University of Nebraska College of Law, where he teaches Contracts, Business Torts and Unfair Competition, The Common Law, and Remedies. He is also a nonresident fellow with the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science and Technology and holds a JD from Harvard Law School. Before teaching, Professor Dickinson practiced at Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston and at law firms in Rochester, New York, with a year in between as a law clerk for Judge Richard C. Wesley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor Dickinson's research focuses on the interaction between private law and technology. One major area of interest is how the common law responds to technological innovation and can be harnessed to complement the more particular statutory and regulatory schemes layered atop it. A second branch of his work explores how the tools of machine learning and artificial intelligence can be brought to bear on traditional legal questions. Through computational analysis of large bodies of case law his research seeks to provide a more systematic view of our legal system and doctrines and to guide legal reforms and policy decisions. His work appears in leading journals including the Boston College Law Review, the Stanford Technology Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Legislation, and the Administrative Law Review.
Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Jonathan Green is an Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University teaching Civil Procedure and Statutory Interpretation. His scholarship focuses on the history of political and legal thought. He is especially interested in the history of constitutionalism, theories of interpretation, and the concept of judicial power. His research has been published in the Arizona State Law Journal, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Modern Intellectual History, and the Historical Journal.
Prior to joining the ASU faculty in 2024, Professor Green was a Harry A. Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago. He previously clerked for Judge Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked as a litigation associate at DLA Piper in Philadelphia.
Professor Green holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he was a joint recipient of Prince Consort & Thirwall Prize, awarded annually for the best dissertation in the Cambridge History Faculty. He also received his MPhil from Cambridge, and earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Northwestern University.
Interim Dean and Levin, Mabie, & Levin Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Merritt E. McAlister is the Interim Dean and Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor at Levin College of Law. She joined the UF Law faculty in 2018, and she was appointed interim dean in June 2023. Prior to her career in academia, Dean McAlister was a partner in the national appellate practice group of King & Spalding.
Dean McAlister clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge R. Lanier Anderson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She received her bachelor’s degree in English and Women and Gender Studies, magna cum laude, from Rice University and her law degree summa cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she served as Executive Articles Editor of the Georgia Law Review.
Dean McAlister teaches and writes in the areas of federal courts, judicial decision-making, constitutional law, and court administration. Her scholarship focuses on issues of institutional design in the federal appellate courts. Dean McAlister’s work has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Northwestern University Law Review, among others. In 2020, she received the annual prize from the AALS Federal Courts Section for the best paper on federal courts by an untenured professor.
Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law
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