Ted Frank is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and director of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest. Frank manages the Institute's research in and studies on liability reform: products liability (including pharmaceuticals and asbestos), class actions and civil procedure, corporate regulation, antitrust and patent litigation, lifestyle litigation, medical malpractice, and judicial selection. Before joining AEI in 2005, Frank was a litigator in private practice; his litigation experience includes defending the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election against an ACLU constitutional challenge; Vioxx and automobile products liability cases; class action defense; and antitrust and patent cases. Frank has also argued successfully in front of the Ninth Circuit multiple times.

Frank has written for law reviews, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and National Review Online, and has spoken or been interviewed on NPR, BBC, C-SPAN, and Fox News. Frank sits on the Federalist Society’s Litigation Practice Group Executive Committee.

Frank received his J.D. with high honors from The Law School at The University of Chicago in 1994, where he was Order of the Coif and served on the law review, and clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a regular contributor to the liability reform weblogPointoflaw.com. He was the director of the AEI Liability Project from 2005-07.

Michael S. Greve  is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI, where he researches American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve co-founded 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. 

Mr. Greve received his MA and Ph.D. in government from Cornell University.

Walter Berns is a resident scholar at AEI and the John M. Olin university professor emeritus at Georgetown University. He has taught at the University ofToronto, the University of Chicago, and Cornell and Yale Universities. His government service includes membership on the National Council on the Humanities, the Council of Scholars in the Library of Congress, the Judicial Fellows Commission, and in 1983 he was the alternate United Statesrepresentative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. He has been a Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Fulbright Fellow. He is the author of many books and articles on American government and politics, including, most recently, Democracy and the Constitution (2006). In 2005, President George W. Bush awarded him the National Humanities Medal for his scholarship on the history of the Constitution.

Mr. Berns studies political philosophy, constitutional law, and legal issues. He is the author of Making Patriots, a discussion of the history and philosophy of patriotism.

John Bolton is a Senior Fellow at AEI.  A diplomat and a lawyer, Ambassador Bolton has spent many years in public service.  From August 2005 to December 2006, he served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations.  From 2001 to 2005, he was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.  At AEI, Ambassador Bolton's areas of research include foreign policy and international organizations.

Mr. Bolton received his J.D. from Yale University.

Peter Wallison is the Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Market Studies at AEI.  A codirector of AEI’s program on financial market deregulation, Wallison studies banking, insurance, and Wall Street regulation. As general counsel of the U.S. Treasury department, he had a significant role in the development of the Reagan administration’s proposals for the deregulation of the financial services industry. He was also general counsel of the Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee and later served as White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan. His latest book is Competitive Equity: A Better Way to Organize Mutual Funds (AEI Press, 2007). 

Mr. Wallison received his L.L.B. from Harvard Law School.

John Yoo is a visiting scholar at AEI and a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has taught since 1993. From 2001–03, Mr. Yoo served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995–96, where he advised on constitutional issues and judicial nominations. Mr. Yoo was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and also clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1993, and then clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Yoo has published articles on foreign affairs, national security, and constitutional law in a number of the nation’s leading law journals, and is the author of The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11(University of Chicago Press, 2005) and War by Other Means (Grove/Atlantic Press, 2006).

Mr. Yoo studies international and constitutional law at AEI.