Marshall J. Breger is professor of law at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America. From 1993 to 1995 he was senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, specializing in labor, regulatory, and trade policy. During the Bush Administration, he served as solicitor of labor, the chief lawyer of the Labor Department. During 1992, by presidential designation, he served concurrently as assistant secretary for labor management standards. From 1985 to 1991, Mr. Breger was chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States, an independent federal agency. During 1987–1989, he also served as alternate delegate of the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva. From 1982–1984, he served as special assistant to President Reagan and his liaison to the Jewish community. He speaks and writes regularly on the subjects of alternate dispute resolution, administrative law, labor law, and international law. Mr. Breger is a contributing columnist to Moment magazine and is an adjunct fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is the coauthor of Jerusalem’s Holy Places and the Peace Process (1998) and coeditor of Vouchers for School Choice: Challenge or Opportunity? An American Jewish Reappraisal (1998).

Carl H. Esbeck is director of the Center for Law and Religious Liberty, the advocacy division of the Christian Legal Society. He is on leave from the University of Missouri School of Law, where he holds the Isabelle Wade & Paul C. Lyda chair as professor of law. Mr. Esbeck was law clerk to the Honorable Howard C. Bratton, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, and from 1975 to 1981 he was in private practice with the law firm of Rodey, Dickenson, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A., in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He joined the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1981. Mr. Esbeck was the progenitor of "Charitable Choice," a provision in the 1996 federal welfare reform act designed to enable faith-based social service charities to cooperate with state and local agencies in assisting the poor and needy. He is the author of The Regulation of Religious Organizations as Recipients of Governmental Financial Assistance (1996) and of "The Neutral Treatment of Religion and Faith-Based Social Service Providers: Charitable Choice and Its Critics," in Welfare Reform and Faith-Based Organizations (1999).

Michael J. Horowitz is senior fellow and director of the Hudson Institute’s projects for civil justice reform and international religious liberty. He served as general counsel for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 1981 to 1985 and as an associate professor of law at the University of Mississippi from 1965 to 1967. Mr. Horowitz has also maintained a private law practice since 1967. He has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School, special counsel for the Committee on the Judicial Branch of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and special counsel to the National Council of Young Israel. He served as chairman of President Reagan’s Domestic Policy Council on Federalism, and was co-chairman of the Cabinet Council’s Working Group on Legal/Tort Policy. In addition to his domestic credentials, Horowitz has also served as an advisor to the Czech, Slovak, and Bulgarian Academies of Science; as vice president of the Bulgarian American Friendship Society; as Counsel and Trustee of Save Cambodia, Inc.; and as a National Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Democracy in Vietnam. Mr. Horowitz is the author of many articles on the subjects of legal reform, religious persecution, the future of the American welfare system, federalism, and the U.S. Congress.

Ben J. Wattenberg is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He hosts the weekly PBS program Think Tank and writes a weekly newspaper column that appears in 200 newspapers. He has been the host-essayist of several public affairs documentary television series, including Ben Wattenberg at Large and In Search of the Real America in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and he has had a creative role in many other television documentaries. Mr. Wattenberg is now working on a major project, "The First Measured Century," a three-hour prime-time PBS special and an accompanying book, looking at the twentieth century in America through the lens of social-science data. He is the author of eight books, including Values Matter Most, The Birth Dearth, The First Universal Nation, and The Good News Is the Bad News Is Wrong, and he is the coauthor with Richard M. Scammon of The Real Majority.