Speaker biographies

Ted Frank is a resident fellow at AEI and director of the AEI Liability Project, managing the institute's research about liability reform proposals, tort law, class actions and civil procedure, and other related issues. Before joining AEI, Mr. Frank worked at law firms in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook. His litigation work included Vioxx and automobile product liability cases, class action defense, and antitrust and patent cases.

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 co-founded 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 has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights.

George L. Priest is the John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics at Yale Law School and the director of its Center for Study in Law, Economics, and Public Policy. Mr. Priest’s teachings focus on capitalism, insurance, product liability, antitrust, and economic development. During the Reagan administration he was a member of the Commission on Privatization. Mr. Priest is the author of articles on tort law, deregulation, antitrust, and economic analysis, and is a member of AEI’s Council of Academic Advisers.

Stuart L. Weinstein, M.D., is the Ignacio V. Ponseti Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Iowa and the current president of Doctors for Medical Liability Reform, a coalition of 230,000 practicing medical specialists who are committed to protecting patients' access to health care by supporting federal legislation that will reform our nation's broken medical liability system. Dr. Weinstein was president of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, the American Orthopaedic Association, and the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. In 1999 he received the Bristol Meyers Squibb/Zimmer Award for Distinguished Achievement in Orthopaedic Research.

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