Noah Feldman specializes in constitutional studies, with emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory. Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School, he is also contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining the Harvard faculty, Feldman was the Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.

Professor Feldman was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005. In 2004 he was a visiting professor at Yale Law School and a fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center. In 2003 he served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law or interim constitution.

Professor Feldman received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1992. Selected as a Rhodes Scholar, he earned a D.Phil. in Islamic Thought from Oxford University in 1994, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1997. He has served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court (1998 to 1999) and to Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1997 to 1998). He is the author of four books: The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (2008); Divided By God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It (2005); What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (2004); and After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (2003).

Richard A. Epstein is well known for his research and writings on a broad range of constitutional, economic, historical, and philosophical subjects.  He is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1972.  He has also been the Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000. Prior to joining the University of Chicago Law School faculty, he taught law at the University of Southern California from 1968 to 1972.

Epsteinreceived an LL.D., h.c., from the University of Ghent, 2003.He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985 and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School, also since 1983. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 1981 to 1991, and of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1991 to 2001. At present he is a director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics.He earned both a B.A. in Law from Oxford and an LL.B. from Yale.

Amonghis many books are Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation (2006); How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (2006); and Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property (2008).

Pamela Samuelson’s principal area of expertise is intellectual property law. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies are posing for public policy and traditional legal regimes. Since 1996, she has served as a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information, School of Law, and Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. She also serves as an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic, which she co-founded in 2002.

A 1971 graduate of the University of Hawaii and a 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, Samuelson practiced law as a litigation associate with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before turning to academic pursuits. From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools.

Professor Samuelson is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Contributing Editor of Communications of the ACM, a past Fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Amsterdam.  She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and of the Open Source Application Foundation, as well as a member of the Advisory Board for the Electronic Privacy Information Center.