Speaker biographies

Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI, where he directs the Federalism 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.

Eric A. Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, University of Chicago. He is the author of Law and Social Norms (Harvard University Press, 2000); coauthor of The Limits of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2005), New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Harvard University Press, 2006), and Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts (Oxford University Press, 2007; editor of Chicago Lectures in Law and Economics (Foundation, 2000); and coeditor of Cost-Benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic, and Philosophical Perspectives (University of Chicago, 2001). He is also an editor of the Journal of Legal Studies. He has published articles on bankruptcy law, contract law, international law, cost-benefit analysis, constitutional law, and administrative law, and has taught courses on international law, foreign relations law, contracts, employment law, bankruptcy law, secured transactions, and game theory and the law. His current research focuses on international law, immigration law, and foreign relations law.

Louis Michael Seidman is Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown Law Center. Seidman served as a law clerk for J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He a staff attorney with the D.C. Public Defender Service until joining the Georgetown Law Center faculty in 1976. He teaches a variety of courses in the fields of constitutional and criminal law. He is coauthor of a constitutional law casebook and the author of several articles concerning criminal justice and constitutional law. His most recent books are Our Unsettled Constitution: A New Defense of Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (Yale, 2001) and Equal Protection of the Laws (Foundation, 2002). Stanford University Press will publish his next book, Silence and Freedom, this summer.

Adrian Vermeule joined the Harvard Law School faculty this year as a professor of law, coming from the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to his tenure there, he served as a law clerk to Judge David Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In his scholarship, Vermeule has focused primarily on constitutional law and theory, administrative law, and legislation and national security law. He is the author of Judging under Uncertainty: An Institutional Theory of Legal Interpretation (Harvard University Press, 2006), and coauthor with Eric A. Posner of Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts (Oxford University Press, 2006). His book Mechanisms of Democracy: Institutional Design Writ Small will be published by Oxford in May 2007.

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