Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI and the director of the Federalism Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. He is particularly interested in environmental regulation, preemption, choice of law issues, and constitutional limitations on congressional power. In 1989, Greve cofounded the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm, which he directed until 2000. C.I.R served as counsel in precedent-setting constitutional cases, including United States v. Morrison (2000) and Rosenberger v. University of Virginia (1995). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Greve has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, environmental policy, civil rights, and federalism. He is the coeditor of Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards, and the author of The Demise of Environmentalism in American Law, and most recently, of Real Federalism: Why It Matters, How It Could Happen (AEI, 1999).

Kevin A. Hassett is a resident scholar at AEI. Before joining AEI, Hassett was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Columbia University School of Business. He was the chief economic adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) during the 2000 presidential campaign. He has also served as a policy consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the previous Bush and Clinton administrations. He has published scholarly articles in the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and many other professional journals. He has coedited two new books for AEI with R. Glenn Hubbard, Inequality and Tax Policy and Transitional Costs of Fundamental Tax Reform. His writings have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Business Week, National Review, Time, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, and many other publications. His first book, Dow 36,000, coauthored by James K. Glassman, was a national bestseller. His latest book, Bubbleology: The New Science of Stock Market Winners and Losers, was published by Crown Business in the summer of 2002.

Michelle J. White is a professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego, and a research associate at National Bureau of Economic Research. She previously served on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, and the University of Michigan, and she was a visiting scholar at Berkeley, the Hebrew University, Copenhagen Business School, and the Universities of Bonn, Tel Aviv, Uppsala, and Munich. She is a member or former member of the editorial boards of the American Law and Economics Review, Land Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Urban Economics, and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law. From 1987 to 1988, she was a member of the Advisory Panel of the Law and Social Sciences Program of the N.S.F. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association. She was the American Economic Association's representative on the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council from 1994 to 2000 and was vice president of the Midwest Economics Association from 1996 to 1997. During the past several years, her research has focused on the bankruptcy system in the U.S., why households file for bankruptcy, how bankruptcy affects the decision to become an entrepreneur, and the effects of bankruptcy on availability of credit to individuals and small businesses. Currently she is analyzing the costs and benefits of adopting a bankruptcy system for countries in financial distress.