Barry Rabe is a professor of environmental policy at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment, director of the Program in the Environment, and professor at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy. His research examines the political feasibility of cross-media regulatory integration and pollution prevention; the ramifications of regulatory devolution in Canada and the United States; the capacity for cooperative implementation of waste facility siting and waste management agreements; and subnational governmental capacity to anticipate policy challenges posed by global warming. Mr. Rabe serves as the editor of the American Governance and Public Policy book series, published by the Georgetown University Press. His recent publications include Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Stealth Politics of American Climate Change Policy; "Power to the States: The Perils and Pitfalls of Decentralization," in Environmental Policy: New Directions for the 21st Century, eds. N. Vig and M. Kraft; and "The Ultimate NIMBY: Siting Nuclear Facilities," in The Politics of Pain, eds. L. Pal and R. K. Weaver.

Robert Gasaway is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C., where his principle practice areas include trial and appellate constitutional law; administrative law and regulatory work focusing on litigation and counseling on high exposure issues; and federal and state court commercial trial work focusing on class action litigation. Mr. Gasaway has extensive experience in environmental litigation and regulatory negotiations. His clients have included General Motors, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, and the United States Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Gasaway has spoken on environmental issues before the Ohio Bar Association, the National Association of State Legislatures, the U.S. Business Summit, and on public television’s Nightly Business Report. His recent publications and presentations include The Problem of Tort Reform: Federalism and the Regulation of Lawyers, 25 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol. 953 (2002); "Ozone: Where We Stand and How We Got Here," OSBA Ohio Environmental Law Seminar (2002); and "The Federalism Symposium: A National Dialogue Between Business and Government" (2001).

Marlo Lewis is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he writes on global warming, energy policy, and other public policy issues. Before joining CEI in April 2002, he was the director of external relations at the Reason Foundation in Los Angeles, California. During the 106th Congress, Mr. Lewis served as staff director of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs. His earlier positions include research director for the grassroots organization, Citizens Against Government Waste; staff consultant to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade; special assistant at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs and Bureau of International Organization Affairs; and visiting assistant professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College. Mr. Lewis has been published in the Washington Times, Investors Business Daily, TechCentralStation, National Review, and Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy.

Christopher Schroeder is Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law, professor of public policy studies, and director of the Program in Public Law at the Duke University School of Law. His areas of research and scholarship include environmental and administrative law, democratic theory, legislative institutions, and separation of powers. He has written on the philosophical foundations of risk regulation and liability, the regulation of toxic substances, the performance of American environmental policy, and on a variety of topics in public law and theory. He coauthors a leading environmental law casebook, Environmental Regulation: Law, Science and Policy (4th edition, 2003), published by Aspen Publishing. The updates for this casebook are maintained on a website. He is the editor of a forthcoming Resources for the Future book, which will evaluate the performance of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI in Washington, D.C. where he directs the AEI Federalism Project and the AEI Liability Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve co-founded and, from 1989 to February 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), a public interest law firm. CIR served as counsel in many 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. Mr. Greve has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights. He is the editor, with Fred L. Smith, of Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (Praeger, 1992); the author of The Demise of Environmentalism in American Law (AEI, 1996); and most recently, of Real Federalism: Why It Matters, How It Could Happen (AEI, 1999).