Michael S. Greve received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1987. He is the John G. Searle Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where he serves as the Director of the Federalism Project and of the Liability Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Dr. Greve co-founded and, from 1989 to February 200, directed the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), a public interest law firm. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights.

Alan C. Raul (moderator) is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. He is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the international law firm of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP where he chairs the Intellectual Property, Internet and Privacy Law practice group. Mr. Raul served as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1989-1993) and as General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President (1988-1989). Before that, he served in the White House as Associate Counsel to the President (1986-1988) and as clerk to Judge Malcolm R. Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Mr. Raul has broad experience in administrative and constitutional law.

Dan Schweitzer is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1986) and Harvard Law School (1989). He was appointed Supreme Court Counsel of the National Association of Attorneys General in February 1996. His principal responsibility is to assist state appellate litigators who appear before the United States Supreme Court. Toward this end, he organizes and participates in moot courts, edits 35-40 state briefs filed each year in the Court, edits the weekly Supreme Court Report, and provides strategic and technical assistance to state attorney general offices. Prior to joining NAAG, Mr. Schweitzer was a litigator at Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C.

Adrian Vermeule graduated from Harvard College in 1990 and from Harvard Law School in 1993. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1998. He clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Vermeule’s interests include constitutional law, administrative law, and legislation.

John C. Yoo is a graduate of Harvard College (B.A., History) and the Yale University School of Law. He is currently a Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute on leave from the Boalt Hall School of Law. Professor Yoo is a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice and served as General Counsel for the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. He clerked for Judge Lawrence Silberman of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. His research areas include constitutional law, international law, war, and terrorism.