Past Scholars

2024

N​ot Born a Democracy: How to Reclaim the Preconditions for Constitutional Self-Governance, Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard Law School

2023

The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation, Paul Gowder, Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Research & Intellectual Life, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law 

2022

The Work of Democracy, Justin Levitt, White House Senior Policy Advisor for Democracy and Voting Rights, Professor of Law, Loyola Marymount University

2021

Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money, Zephyr Teachout, Professor of Law, Fordham University

2019 

Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump,
Shoba Sivaprasad, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar; Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic; and Instructor of Education, Penn State Law

2018

Pregnancy, Poverty, & The State, Michele Goodwin, Chancellor Professor of Law and Director, Center of Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine

2017

Expulsion, Statehood, and the Future of Puerto Rico, Mitu Gulati, Professor of Law, Duke University

2015

Ferguson 2.0: Violence Race and Law, Paul Butler, Professor of Law, Georgetown University

2013

The Democratic Paradox: Legal Education and Civic Illiteracy, Victoria F. Nourse, Professor of Law, Georgetown University
 

2012

A Civil Rights History in the "Age of Obama," Kenneth W. Mack, Professor of Law, Harvard University

2010

Methodology of Originalism, Hon. Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

2009

Unbundling Constitutionality, Richard Primus, Professor of Law, University of Michigan

2008

The Boy Scouts, Gay Rights and Freedom of Association, Andrew Koppelman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

2007

Law and the Positive Emotions: Some Reflections on Hope, Kathryn Abrams, Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

2006

Political Science, Judicial Politics and the Rule of Law, Howard Gillman, Professor of Political Science, History & Law, University of Southern California

2005

A Tale of Two Cities: The Supreme Court and Political Gerrymandering, Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford University