Speaker Biographies

June 29, 2005

Jonathan H. Adler is Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director, Center for Business Law & Regulation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.  Prior to entering law school, he clerked for the Honorable David Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and worked as the Director of Environmental Studies for the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the author or editor of three books and numerous articles.  A contributing editor at National Review Online, his work has appeared in publications ranging from Environmental Law and Supreme Court Economic Review to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. In 2004, Professor Adler was awarded the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually by The Federalist Society to an academic under 40 for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students. Professor Adler teaches Constitutional Law and several regulatory and environmental law courses.  This coming fall he will be a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the George Mason University School of Law.

Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI, where he directs the Federalism Project and the Liability Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve cofounded and, from 1989 to February 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 has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights.

Robert Nagel joined the faculty of Colorado University School of Law in 1975, leaving a position as a deputy attorney general in Pennsylvania. Since that time, he has focused on constitutional law and theory.  Professor Nagel has written prolifically and contributed to the popular debate on constitutional issues, including free speech, hate codes, and federalism.  Much of his work has focused on the relationship between the judiciary (and its interpretation of the Constitution) and the wider context of American political culture.  Professor Nagel has testified before several congressional committees. He was formerly the director of the Law School's Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Neil S. Siegel is Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University.  His teaching and research centers on constitutional law, federal courts, and related areas, including constitutional theory and constitutional law & economics.  Professor Siegel recently completed a clerkship with Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court of the United States. Before that, he served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the United States Department of Justice, and was a law clerk to then-Chief Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Nina Totenberg is National Public Radio's legal affairs correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR's newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. Ms. Totenberg was named Broadcaster of the Year and honored with the 1998 Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcasting from the National Press Foundation.  She is also the recipient of the American Judicature Society's first-ever award honoring a career body of work in the field of journalism and the law. In 1988, Totenberg won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for her coverage of Supreme Court nominations. A frequent contributor to major newspapers and periodicals, she has published articles in The New York Times Magazine, The Harvard Law Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Parade Magazine, New York Magazine, and others.  Ms. Totenberg is also a regular panelist on Inside Washington.

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