Speaker biographies

Jack M. Balkin is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Mr. Balkin is the founder and director of Yale’s Information Society Project, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and new information technologies. His books include Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology (Yale University Press, 1998), What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said (New York University Press, 2001), and What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said (New York University Press, 2005). Mr. Balkin is also the coauthor of the fifth edition of Processes of Constitutional Decision Making: Cases and Materials (Aspen Publishers, 2006).

Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. 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 has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights.

Steven Teles has taught or visited at Brandeis University, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, University of London, Boston University, College of the Holy Cross, and Hamilton College. He has just completed his second book, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement (Princeton University Press, 2008) and is also the author of Whose Welfare? Elite Politics and AFDC (University Press of Kansas, 1996). Mr. Teles has coedited two major books, Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy, with Tariq Modood and Glenn Loury (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and Conservatism and American Political Development, with Brian Glenn. He is beginning work on a new book examining the role of political analysis in legal and policy design. Mr. Teles has published numerous articles and book chapters on Social Security in the United States and the UK, affirmative action, federalism, U.S.-Chinese policy, and the logic of policy analysis.

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