EVENTS

Date:	Thursday, January 29, 2009
Time:	5:00 PM -- 6:15 PM
Location:	Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI. His research and writing cover constitutional law, federalism, and business regulation. Mr. Greve cofounded and, from 1989 to 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm that served as counsel in many precedent-setting constitutional cases, including United States v. Morrison and Rosenberger v. University of Virginia. He also serves on the board of directors of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His publications include numerous law review articles and books, including The Demise of Environmentalism in American Law (AEI Press, 1996) and Real Federalism: Why It Matters, How It Could Happen (AEI Press, 1999). Mr. Greve is the coeditor, with Fred L. Smith, of Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (Praeger, 1992) and, with Richard A. Epstein, of Competition Laws in Conflict: Antitrust Jurisdiction in the Global Economy (AEI Press, 2004) and Federal Preemption: States' Powers, National Interests (AEI Press, 2007).

Erin O'Hara is a professor of law, the director of the law and human behavior program, and the associate dean of academic affairs at Vanderbilt University School of Law. Her research interests include choice of law, conflict of laws, dispute resolution, and international contracts. Her most recent work includes two books and a series of important articles on choice of law, as well as articles on the influence of law on apology in dispute resolution and articles on the influence of law on interpersonal trust in relationships. Ms. O'Hara taught at George Mason University School of Law from 1995 until she joined the Vanderbilt law faculty in 2001. In 2005, she was a visiting professor at Northwestern Law School. Prior to joining the George Mason faculty, Ms. O'Hara clerked for Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She also served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School, as a visiting associate professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and as a visiting assistant professor in the departments of legal studies, economics, and finance at Clemson University.

Larry E. Ribstein is the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He is the author of leading treatises on limited liability companies, Ribstein and Keatinge on Limited Liability Companies (West, 2005) and partnership law Bromberg and Ribstein on Partnerships (Aspen Publishers, 2008), as well as two business associations casebooks. His is also the coauthor of The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle (AEI Press, 2006) and The Constitution and the Corporation (AEI Press, 1995). From 1998 to2001 he was the coeditor of the Supreme Court Economic Review. Mr. Ribstein has written or coauthored over one hundred articles on subjects including corporate law, securities and partnership law, constitutional law, bankruptcy, film, the internet, family law, professional ethics and licensing, uniform laws, choice of law, and jurisdictional competition.

Max Stearns is the Marbury Research Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law. His research focuses on novel methodologies to study a wide range of doctrines in public law, with a particular emphasis on judicial decision-making processes and structural constitutional law. His specific methodological expertise centers on public choice, social choice, and game theory. Mr. Stearns teaches constitutional law, the federal courts, and federal civil rights. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the California Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. Mr Stearns is the author of Constitutional Process: A Social Choice Analysis of Supreme Court Decision Making (University of Michigan Press, 2002), the first book length analysis of how collective decision making processes shape doctrines and case outcomes in the United States Supreme Court. Previously, he clerked for the Chief Judge Harrison L. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.