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	Alcoff, Linda

	Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Syracuse University

	Linda Martín Alcoff works primarily in continental philosophy, epistemology, feminist theory, and philosophy of race. Her books and anthologies include Feminist Epistemologies (with Elizabeth Potter, Routledge 1993), Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge (Cornell 1996), Epistemology: The Big Questions (Blackwell 1998), Thinking From the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation (with Eduardo Mendieta, Rowman & Littlefield 2000), Identities (with Eduardo Mendieta, Blackwell, 2002), Singing in the Fire: Tales of Women in Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self (Oxford, 2006), Identity Politics Reconsidered (with Satya Mohanty, Michael Hames-Garcia and Paula Moya, Palgrave 2006), and The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy (with Eva Feder Kittay, Blackwell 2006). She has written over fifty articles concerning Foucault, sexual violence, the politics of epistemology, gender and race identity, and Latino issues. Her next book is an anthology on race and nationalism, co-edited with Mariana Ortega. She held an ACLS Fellowship for 1990-1991 and a fellowship from the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University for 1994-1995. In recognition of her outstanding undergraduate teaching, Professor Alcoff was awarded a Laura J. and Douglas Meredith Professorship. She was one of three professors at Syracuse University named in the first year of these awards. In 2006 she was named the Distinguished Woman in Philosophy by the Society of Women in Philosophy. She has been chair of the APA Committee on Hispanics/Latinos, a member of the Executive Committee of the Eastern division APA, and Co-Director of SPEP, the Society for the Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Alcoff has been a Visiting Professor at SUNY Stony Brook, Brown University, Cornell University, Florida Atlantic University, Aarhus University in Denmark, and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She is currently serving a three-year term as Director of the Women's Studies Program at Syracuse University.



	Alper, Joanne F.

	Judge, Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Circuit of Virginia

	Joanne Alper has served on the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Circuit of Virginia since June 1998. Prior to serving on the Circuit Court, she served as judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court for the Seventeenth Judicial District as well as chief judge of that court. Before being elevated to the bench, she was in private practice in Arlington, VA. Judge Alper earned her BA degree, magna cum laude, from Syracuse University. She received a Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from George Washington University Law School. Judge Alper's professional service includes serving as President of the Arlington County Bar Association; President of District 4 of the National Association of Women Judges; President of the Virginia Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and Chair of the Family Law Section of the Virginia State Bar Association. Judge Alper is past-president of the Syracuse University National Alumni Association where she was Vice President and chair of the By-Laws, Nominating, and Awards Committees. Judge Alper is currently a member of the Board of Advisors of the Syracuse University College of Law and a member of the Syracuse University Board of Trustees; a member of the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission; a member of the Virginia Model Jury Instructions Committee; and a member of the Education Committee of the Virginia Judicial Conference.



	Barbash, Fred

	Staff Writer and Editor, Continuous News Desk, The Washington Post

	Fred Barbash is a veteran Washington Post writer and editor. He was the Post’s Supreme Court correspondent from 1980 to 1986 and currently writes about the court, among other subjects, for washingtonpost.com, where he also writes a blog on Supreme Court nominations. He has served as chief of the Post’s London Bureau, National Editor of the Post, Business Editor and columnist. Barbash is he author of three books, including a popular history of the constitutional convention of 1787.



	Bell, Tom W.

	Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law

	Professor Bell joined the faculty of Chapman University School of Law in 1998, where he now teaches as a professor. He specializes in high-tech legal issues and has written a variety of papers on intellectual property and Internet law. He received his JD from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993, where he served both as a member of the University of Chicago Law Review and as articles editor and co-founder of the University of Chicago Legal Roundtable. After graduating from law school, Professor Bell joined the Silicon Valley law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He entered teaching in 1995, when he became an assistant professor of law in the Program in Law and Technology at the University of Dayton School of Law. During a year-long leave of absence from that school, and just prior to joining the Chapman faculty, he served as Director of Telecommunications and Technology Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. In addition to writing a steady stream of scholarly works, Professor Bell has appeared on or been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Los Angeles Times, and many other news sources.



	Blinkoff, Sharon A.

	Of Counsel, Venable LLP

	Sharon Blinkoff advises clients in the consumer products, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and other industries on regulatory matters involving the Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Administration, and industry regulatory bodies such as the National Advertising Board. In addition to advising clients on regulatory matters, Ms. Blinkoff frequently represents her clients in patent, trademark and other intellectual property disputes. Whether representing clients in regulatory or intellectual property issues, Ms. Blinkoff leverages three decades of technical and legal experience to deliver outcomes that enable her clients to accomplish their business objectives. For more than three decades, Sharon Blinkoff has helped her clients successfully navigate the regulatory maze, bring their products to market, protect their intellectual property, and achieve positive business results. Ms. Blinkoff's undergraduate education in biomedical engineering gives her the technical background to understand the science underlying her clients' patent and intellectual property issues. Ms. Blinkoff’s education includes: B.S. Bio-Medicinal Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; J.D., New England School of Law; and L.L.M., New York University School of Law. Ms. Blinkoff’s Bar admissions include Connecticut, District of Columbia, New York, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.



	Cantor, Nancy

	Chancellor, Syracuse University

	Nancy Cantor is the 11th Chancellor and President of Syracuse University, as well as Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. A native New Yorker, Dr. Cantor came to Syracuse from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was chancellor. She has held a variety of administrative positions encompassing all aspects of a research university--from chair of the department of psychology at Princeton to dean of the graduate school and then provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan. She received her A.B. in 1974 from Sarah Lawrence College and her Ph.D. in psychology in 1978 from Stanford University. Dr. Cantor is recognized for her scholarly contributions to the understanding of how individuals perceive and think about their social worlds, pursue personal goals, and how they regulate their behavior to adapt to life's most challenging social environments. She is co-author or co-editor of three books and author or co-author of some 90 book chapters and journal articles. She has been an advocate for racial justice and for diversity in higher education, and she has written and lectured widely on these subjects. At the University of Michigan she was closely involved in the university's defense of affirmative action in the cases Grutter and Gratz, decided by the Supreme Court in 2003. Cantor has also lectured and written extensively on liberal education and the creative campus.



	Carr, Donald

	Associate Professor, School of Art and Design, Syracuse University

	Professor Don Carr is the program coordinator for the Industrial and Interactive Design program within the College of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a principle of Carr and Lamb Design, an interdisciplinary design firm that works with clients such as Motorola, K2 Skis, Kimberly Clark, Crate & Barrel and DesignTex. Prior to his tenure at Syracuse University he worked as a corporate designer for AT&T and NCR from which he received numerous patents. He also holds patents for sports equipment from his work as an independent designer. Mr. Carr received a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.



	Chhablani, Sanjay

	Assistant Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law

	Professor Chhablani began his legal career as a Litigation Associate at a private law firm where, in addition to litigating commercial disputes, he represented, pro bono, persons incarcerated on Illinois' death row. After receiving an ABA Death Penalty Representation Project Fellowship, Professor Chhablani joined the Southern Center for Human Rights. During the past several years, he has represented indigent persons on death row in Alabama and Georgia on direct appeal and in state and federal post-conviction proceedings. Professor Chhablani is a member of the Illinois, Georgia and Alabama state bars and teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, capital punishment and evidence. Professor Chhablani earned his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his J.D. from Yale Law School.



	Collins, Bruce

	Corporate Vice President and General Counsel, C-SPAN

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	Denniston, Lyle

	Reporter, SCOTUSblog

	Denniston is now in his 58th year as a journalist. This also is his 48th year of covering the Supreme Court. He has covered one of every four Justices ever to sit on the Court. Denniston retired from The Baltimore Sun in February 2001, after covering the Court for The Sun for 19 years. He then covered the Court for The Boston Globe for three years. Previously, he covered the Court for The Washington Star and The Wall Street Journal. Now, his main journalistic activity is covering the Court for an Internet-based clearing house of information about the Supreme Court’s work — the Web log known as “SCOTUSblog.” He also reports on the Court for Radio Station WBUR, an NPR affiliate in Boston. For four years, through the Fall Semester of 2001, he taught a course in American constitutional history in the Washington program of Penn State University. He is currently an adjunct professor of law for the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover; he received an honorary doctor of laws degree from that Law School in 2002. In addition to his reporting duties, Denniston is active in free-lance writing, and is the author of a standard manual, used in newsrooms and in academic journalism throughout the nation, titled The Reporter and The Law: Techniques of Covering the Courts.



	Dineen King, Carolyn

	Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

	King is a native of Syracuse. She graduated from Smith College summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in 1959 and from Yale Law School in 1962. Following her graduation from law school, Judge King moved to Houston where she was engaged in the private practice of law until 1979, focusing primarily on corporate and federal securities law. On July 13, 1979 she was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by President Jimmy Carter, and she continues to serve on that court. Judge King was the Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit from January 16, 1999 through January 15, 2006. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist appointed Judge King to be a member of the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 2000 to 2005 and to chair the committee from October 2002 through September 2005. Judge King has been a member of the Council of the American Law Institute since 1991, and was an adviser to the Products Liability Restatement and to the Transnational Insolvency Project.



	Dolak, Lisa A.

	Board of Advisors Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law

	Prof. Dolak teaches courses on patent law, Internet law, and practice and procedure in the federal courts, and serves as Associate Director of the Center on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism and Associate Director of the Syracuse University Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media. In her professional consulting practice, she serves as an expert and early neutral evaluator/mediator in patent litigation matters, prepares patent opinion letters, and advises on litigation matters and patent reexamination and interference proceedings. During a sabbatical leave from Syracuse University, she served as law clerk to the Hon. Paul F. Michel, (now-) Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She has served since January 2005 as a member of the Federal Circuit’s Advisory Council. Prior to attending law school, Prof. Dolak worked for several years as a synthetic organic chemist in pharmaceutical research aimed at the development of new drugs at Bristol-Myers Company and Ayerst Laboratories Research, Inc. Prof. Dolak received her Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Duquesne University and her Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from the Syracuse University College of Law. She is admitted to practice in New York and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Prof. Dolak’s current research centers on media coverage of intellectual property rights. Her other research interests include issues at the intersections of patent law and judicial procedure and patent law and ethics.



	Epstein, Lee

	Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

	Epstein, visited Northwestern University School of Law as the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor for Fall 2005, and has joined the faculty as the Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. A recipient of ten grants from the National Science Foundation for her work on judicial politics, Epstein has also authored, co-authored, or edited over seventy articles and essays, as well as fourteen books. She is currently working with the papers of Justice Harry Blackmun for a book on agenda setting on the U.S. Supreme Court.



	French, Dan

	Former United States Attorney, Northern District of New York

	French is a founding partner of French Alcott, PLLC, a Syracuse, New York law firm. His practice includes complex civil litigation and criminal defense, along with a federal relations practice involving lobbying on behalf of clients before federal and state representatives and agencies. Before forming French Alcott, French served as United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York where he was the chief federal law enforcement officer for 32 of New York's 62 counties and serving over 3.5 million state residents. He oversaw the work of 39 Assistant United States Attorneys located in Syracuse, Albany, and Binghamton. Previously, French served as an Assistant United States Attorney assigned to the criminal division in Syracuse, New York and as a confidential Law Clerk for then United States District Court Judge Rosemary S. Pooler. In addition, he served as Acting Deputy Staff Director to the United States Senate Committee on Finance, Executive Assistant to United States Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and as a Professional Staff Member to the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. He represents Adam Levine, a former White House Deputy Press Secretary who was called to testify before Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s grand jury inquiry into the leak of Valery Plame’s name. He also advocates on behalf of Syracuse University before the United States Congress and federal and state agencies.



	Geyh, Charles

	Professor of Law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow, Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington

	Professor Geyh joined the Indiana faculty in 1998, bringing to the classroom a rich diversity of experience in both scholarship and public service. In addition to his teaching and scholarship, he has served as director of the American Judicature Society's Center for Judicial Independence, reporter to American Bar Association commissions on judicial independence and (more recently) the public financing of judicial elections, consultant to the National Commission on judicial Discipline and Removal, legislative liaison to the Federal Courts Study Committee, and a member of the American Law Institute. The author of numerous articles and book chapters, Professor Geyh in his recent scholarship has explored issues relating to judicial administration, independence, and accountability. His courses include Civil Procedure, Courts and Congress, the Legal Profession, and Federal Courts.



	Gillers, Stephen

	Emily Kempin Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

	Stephen Gillers has been Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law since 1978. His research and writing focuses on the regulation of the legal profession. His courses include Regulation of Lawyers, Evidence, and Law and Literature. Professor Gillers has written widely on legal and judicial ethics in law reviews and the legal popular press. He has taught legal ethics as a visitor at other law schools and has spoken on lawyer regulatory issues at federal and state judicial conferences, law firms and general counsel's offices, ABA conventions, state bar meetings nationwide, before Congress, and in law school lectureships. Professor Gillers is the author of Regulation of Lawyers: Problems of Law and Ethics, a widely used law school casebook first published in 1985 and now in its seventh edition. He is currently chair of the ABA's Joint Committee on Lawyer Regulation. Following a clerkship with Chief Judge Gus J. Solomon in Federal District Court in Portland, Oregon, Professor Gillers practiced law for nine years in New York City.



	Goldstein, Tom

	Professor and Former Dean, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School

	Tom Goldstein, has been a teacher, administrator and journalist on both coasts. He served as dean of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism from 1988 to 1996 and dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism from 1997 to 2002. He has also taught at New York University, the University of Florida and the Kennedy School at Harvard. A graduate of Yale College, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Columbia Law School, Goldstein was the founding editor of Juris Doctor, a magazine for young lawyers. He worked as a reporter at the Buffalo Evening News, Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal and Newsday. From 1973 to 1979, he covered legal affairs for the metropolitan, business and national desk of the New York Time. From 1980 to 1982, he served as press secretary for Mayor Edward I. Koch. After leaving the mayor's staff, he began to freelance, a career he still purusues. He is the author of The News at Any Cost, the editor of Killing the Messenger, and co-author of The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well. He is the West Coast editor of the Columbia Journalism Review.



	Graves, Jr., James E.

	Justice, Mississippi Supreme Court

	Justice James E. Graves, Jr., began his term as judge on the Mississippi Supreme Court on November 1, 2001. He was appointed by the Governor and then was elected by the people in November 2004. Justice Graves previously served as a Circuit Court Judge for 10 years. He was appointed in February 1991 to serve as Circuit Court Judge. He was elected to the position in a special election in September 1991, He was re-elected without opposition in 1994 and 1998. He attended Millsaps College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology. After working at the Department of Public Welfare for almost two years, he enrolled at Syracuse University College of Law, where he received his law degree. He also holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He worked as a staff attorney at Central Mississippi Legal Services. As a special assistant attorney general, he was head of the Human Services Division of the Attorney General's Office. Just prior to being appointed Circuit Judge, he was director of the Division of Child Support Enforcement of the Mississippi Department of Human Services. He was also engaged in the private practice of law for more than three years. His teaching experience includes serving as a teaching team member at Harvard Law School where he has taught trial advocacy five times during the past six years. He has been a presenter at Stanford Law School on two occasions and was a jurist-in-residence at Syracuse University School of Law. Justice Graves has also served as an adjunct professor at Jackson State University, Tougaloo College, and Millsaps College where he taught media law, civil rights law, and sociology of law.



	Greene, K.J.

	Associate Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

	Kevin Jerome (“K.J”) Greene was recently selected by peers in the San Diego intellectual property bar as one of the Top Ten Intellectual Property (“IP”) attorneys in San Diego County, and has developed a national reputation as an IP scholar. A native New Yorker and a graduate of the Yale Law School, Greene is a tenured faculty member at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where he teaches Contracts, Intellectual Property, Music Law, and Entertainment Law. He has also served as a visiting professor at both the University of San Diego School of Law, where he taught Entertainment Law and a seminar entitled on the Right of Publicity, and at Hofstra University School of Law in New York. Greene served with honor in a fighter jet squadron of the U.S. Marines and graduated with highest honors from the State University of New York at Old Westbury before attending Yale Law School. Following graduation, Greene completed a judicial clerkship with the Michigan Supreme Court, and was awarded a special certificate for outstanding service. Following his judicial clerkship, Professor Greene practiced corporate litigation at the blue chip New York firm law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and entertainment and IP law at Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein and Selz, a leading New York entertainment boutique firm. He has represented clients such as Time-Warner/HBO, film producer Spike Lee, pop singer Bobby Brown, TV star Geraldo Rivera and the ground-breaking rap group Public Enemy. Greene is a leading expert on the subject of blues, jazz and the law. His book chapter entitled “What the Treatment of Black Artists Can Teach About Copyright Law” recently appeared in PETER K. YU, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION WEALTH: ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN THE DIGITAL AGE 385 (2007). Another article entitled “Using Multi-Media Materials to Teach Entertainment Law” is forthcoming for publication in the fall of 2007. Professor Greene is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s (“AIPLA”) Trademark Litigation Committee, and speaks nationally and internationally on IP and entertainment law-related topics before groups such as Practicing Law Institute’s s (“PLI”) seminar “Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry”, the ABA’s Section on Intellectual Property Law, the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers’ Association (“BESLA”), the Association of American Law Schools (“AALS”), the Intellectual Property Scholar’s Conference, the San Diego County Bar Association, and the corporate legal departments of hi-tech and entertainment industry companies.



	Grey, Jr., Robert J.

	Past President, American Bar Association Partner, Hunton & Williams

	Robert Grey devoted his yearlong term to creating better justice through better juries via the American Jury Initiative. The Jury Initiative was composed of the Commission on the American Jury and the American Jury Project. The Commission was dedicated to educating the public on and reinvigorating the nation's commitment to jury service. The American Jury Project modernized and consolidated varying sets of juror standards into a single model document that reflects the demands of contemporary trials. This work will continue under the auspices of the new American Jury Project. Additionally, Grey worked to review, unify and update ABA programs to increase diversity in the legal profession, to advance the ABA's international rule of law efforts, and to safeguard the profession's independence. Grey earned his J.D. from Washington and Lee University in Virginia in 1976, and his B.S. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1973.



	Grimes, Charlottle

	Knight Chair for Political Reporting, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

	Grimes was a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 20 years, 12 of them in its Washington bureau. Her work included covering local and national campaigns and elections, the politics and policy of health care and international trade, the U. S. invasion of Panama and the United Nations during the Persian Gulf war; reconstructing the lives and deaths of five Catholic missionaries killed in Liberia's civil war; and reporting from Nicaragua, Mexico, China and Japan. Her reporting won national and local awards, and helped change state laws in Missouri to give better care to rape victims, children in foster care and the elderly in boarding homes. Grimes is a native of Andaluisa, Alabama.



	Lee-Glauser, Gina

	Director, CASE Center, Syracuse University

	Dr. Lee-Glauser is Associate Vice President for Research and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University. Her area of expertise include Structural Dynamics and Control; Active and Passive Vibration Control; Learning Control; System Identification. Dr. Lee-Glauser’s educational endeavors consist of the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission member; Involved in undergraduate engineering curricular reform; Institution-wide interdisciplinary forum facilitator; promotion and support of Underrepresented minority students and Women in STEM. Dr. Lee-Glauser has an overall responsibility of the University’s Office of Technology Transfer and Industrial Development and the CASE Center: support activities such as invention disclosures/protections, market and negotiate license agreement, and joint industrial projects, support incubator tenants, and the CASE Co-Op program. Dr. Lee-Glauser proactively facilitates and nurtures collaborative interactions between University (faculty, post-doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students) and New York industries to accelerate transfer of University knowledge to substantially increasing economic and innovation impact on New York industries.



	Lewis, Anthony

	Former Columnist, The New York Times

	Anthony Lewis was a columnist for The New York Times from 1969 to 2001. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In 2001 he was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal. He received a BA from Harvard College in 1948. From 1948 to 1952 he was a deskman in the Sunday Department of The Times. In 1952 he became a reporter for The Washington Daily News. In 1955 he won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles in The News on dismissal of a Navy employee as a security risk. The articles led to the employee’s reinstatement. In 1955 Mr. Lewis joined the Washington Bureau of The New York Times. In 1956-57 he was a Nieman Fellow; he spent the academic year studying at the Harvard Law School. On his return to Washington, he covered the Supreme Court, the Justice Department and other legal matters including the Government’s handling of the civil rights movement, for The Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Supreme Court in 1963. He became Chief of the Times London Bureau in 1964. He began writing his column from London in 1969. Since 1973 he has been located in Boston. He is the author of three books: Gideon’s Trumpet, about a landmark Supreme Court case; Portrait of a Decade, about the great changes in American race relations; and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. Mr. Lewis was for fifteen years a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School, teaching a course on The Constitution and the Press. He has taught at a number of other universities as a visitor. Since 1983 he has held the James Madison Visiting Professorship at Columbia University.



	Lithwick, Dahlia

	Senior Editor, Slate.com

	Dahlia Lithwick, is a senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate.com where she writes the column "Supreme Court Dispatches" She has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues. Before joining Slate, she worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nev., and clerked for Procter Hug, chief justice of the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1996. Her work has appeared in the New Republic, Commentary, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Elle and on CNN.com. She is a weekly legal commentator for the NPR show, Day to Day. She co wrote "Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World" (Workman Publishing, 2003), a legal humor book, and "I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp" (Little, Brown & Co., 1992), a book about seven children from Paul Newman's camp who have life-threatening illnesses. Ms. Lithwick was awarded the Online News Association's award for online commentary in 2001. She received a B.A degree in English from Yale University in 1990 and a J.D degree from Stanford Law School in 1996.



	Lowney, Karen A.

	Senior Staff Attorney, Hunton & Williams

	Dr. Lowney’s practice focuses on all aspects of procuring, enforcing, defending and protecting intellectual property, with a specialization in life sciences and chemical intellectual property. Extensive experience in advising and counseling clients on intellectual property protection strategies; patent, know-how and trade secret licensing; patent prosecution; due diligence in corporate acquisitions, collaborations and joint ventures; and opinion work (patentability, infringement and enforceability). Dr. Lowney has represented US and foreign clients in the areas of biotechnology (pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial) cosmetic chemistry and packaging, dermatology, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and industrial chemicals; prepared and prosecuted patent applications, through the appeal stage, in a wide range of technologies; drafted and negotiated technology-related agreements (patent licenses and purchases, technology transfer, research collaboration, confidentiality, consulting, software licensing, manufacturing, professional services); participated in litigation at the trial level in pharmaceutical and cosmetic cases; and prepared infringement, validity, and freedom-to-operate opinions. Dr. Lowney earned her law degree from St. John’s University and a Ph.D in biology from New York University. She was formerly the Vice-President and Deputy General Counsel/Associate Counsel for The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Dr. Lowney is admitted to the New York State Bar and is licensed to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office.



	Majarian, William

	Senior Patent Counsel, Corporate Intellectual Property, U.S. - GlaxoSmithKline

	Dr. Majarian has been Senior Patent Counsel at GlaxoSmithKline since 2001. As part of his role as patent counsel at GlaxoSmithKline, Dr. Majarian focuses on issues such as: Biotechnology Patent Preparation and Prosecution, Litigation, Interference, Opinions, Counseling, Freedom-to-Operate, and Due Diligence. His education includes: B.S. in Biology from Muhlenberg College, M.S. and Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Hahnemann University, and a J.D. from Widener University. Prior to his time with GlaxoSmithKline, Dr. Majarian was employed by E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co. in Wilmington, DE. Dr. Majarian’s Bar Admissions include the Supreme Court of New Jersey, United States District Court-District of New Jersey, and United States Patent and Trademark Office.



	Mann, Thomas

	Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution

	Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. Between 1987 and 1999, he was Director of Governmental Studies at Brookings. Before that, Mann was executive director of the American Political Science Association. Mann earned his B.A. in political science at the University of Florida and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. He first came to Washington in 1969 as a Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator Philip A. Hart and Representative James G. O'Hara. Mann has taught at Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, the University of Virginia and American University; conducted polls for congressional candidates; worked as a consultant to IBM and the Public Broadcasting Service; chaired the Board of Overseers of the National Election Studies; and served as an expert witness in the constitutional defense of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. He lectures frequently in the United States and abroad on American politics and public policy and is also a regular contributor to newspaper stories and television and radio programs on politics and governance. Mann is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Frank J. Goodnow and Charles E. Merriam Awards. He is currently working on projects dealing with redistricting, election reform, and campaign finance, and writing a book on Congress with Norman Ornstein.



	Maroney, Thomas J.

	Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law

	Professor Maroney was an editor of the Syracuse Law Review and a William Cook Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School. He practiced law with a major New York City law firm. He served as chair and board member of the Central New York chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, as a visiting professor at the Colorado and Cornell law schools, and as assistant attorney general of the state of New York. He is a labor arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. Professor Maroney was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate to serve in the position of United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York.



	Mauro, Tony

	Supreme Court Correspondent, Legal Times, American Lawyer

	Mauro joined ALM in 2000 after covering the Supreme Court for USA Today and Gannett News Service for 20 years. He is also a legal correspondent for the First Amendment Center. A graduate of Rutgers University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Mauro’s 1998 stories on Supreme Court law clerks won a certificate of merit from the American Bar Association. He is the author of “Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court” (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2005) and has written several law review articles and contributed chapters to four books.



	McGraw, Warren

	Former Justice, West Virginia Supreme Court

	Justice McGraw earned his A.B. in 1960 from Morris Harvey College (University of Charleston), attended West Virginia University Graduate School and earned his J.D. in 1963 from Wake Forest (Baptist) University. He was admitted to the West Virginia State Bar in 1963. Justice McGraw has been elected to a greater number of constitutional offices than any other West Virginian. He has served in all three branches of West Virginia government. He received a designation as one of the nation's outstanding legislators from Rutgers University. He also was featured on the National Public Television series Bill Moyers Journal, in "If Elected," a one-hour special on local electoral process. He received the Friend of Education, Margaret Baldwin Award from the West Virginia Education Association and participated in Marshall University's Taft Lecture Series. His past employment includes open hearth steel worker, U.S. Steel Corporation; chemical worker, Union Carbide Corporation; U.S. Department of Justice trial attorney Washington, D.C.; legal services attorney; instructor, West Virginia University Extension; and the private general practice of law.



	McKee, Theodore

	Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

	Judge Theodore A. McKee was born near Rochester, New York. McKee attended State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland, where he was active in student government and played football, graduating in 1969. McKee then worked as director of minority recruitment at SUNY Binghamton. His efforts there included recruiting graduate students from Jackson State University in Mississippi. He also began a program to recruit qualified applicants from prison to the University. In 1972 he enrolled in Syracuse University College of Law where he now sits as a member of the Board of Advisors. He graduated from law school magna cum laude and Order of the Coif. McKee began his legal career at the firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen in 1975. From 1977 to 1980, McKee served as assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He was appointed deputy city solicitor for the city of Philadelphia and then was hired in 1983 as general counsel for the Philadelphia Parking Authority. In 1984, he was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas, First Judicial District, Pennsylvania where he presided for over 10 years. He was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1994 He is a trustee of Temple University an advisor to the American Law Institute in its current examination of the sentencing provisions of the Model Penal Code, and a Commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Kennedy Commission which is examining sentencing policy in the United States. He was formerly a trustee of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in New York City.



	Mueller, Milton L.

	Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University

	Milton Mueller teaches and does research on the political economy of communication and information. He uses the theoretical tools of property rights analysis, institutional economics and both historical and quantitative social science methods. He has a longstanding interest in the history of communication technologies and global governance institutions. Mueller received the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. Mueller's most recent research projects explore the efforts of citizens and activists to shape communication and information policy, both globally and nationally. His acclaimed book Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002) was the first scholarly account of the Internet governance debates. His book, Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System (MIT Press, 1997) set out a dramatic revision of our understanding of the origins of universal telephone service and the role of interconnection in industry development. His research has been cited and utilized by policymakers in the US, Europe, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. He is on the international editorial boards of the journals Telecommunications Policy, The Information Society, and Info: the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunication, information and media.



	Olin, Dirk

	Director, Judicial Reports

	Dirk Olin is the director of the Institute for Judicial Studies, a non-partisan, non-ideological think tank devoted to collecting and disseminating data on the performance of judges. He is the former national editor of The American Lawyer and a longtime legal and political journalist for such publications as The New Republic, Mother Jones, The New York Times Magazine, and Slate.com. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.



	Ornstein, Norman

	Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

	Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He also serves as an election analyst for CBS News. In addition, Ornstein writes for USA Today as a member of its Board of Contributors and writes a weekly column called "Congress Inside Out" for Roll Call newspaper. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and other major publications, and regularly appears on television programs like The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose. He serves as senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission, working to ensure that our institutions of government can be maintained in the event of a terrorist attack on Washington; his efforts in this area are recounted in a profile of him in the June 2003 Atlantic Monthly. His campaign finance working group of scholars and practitioners helped shape the major law, known as McCain/Feingold, that reformed the campaign financing system. Legal Times referred to him as "a principal drafter of the law" and his role in its design and enactment was profiled in the February 2004 issue of Washington Lawyer. He is also co-directing a multi-year effort, called the Transition to Governing Project, to create a better climate for governing in the era of the permanent campaign. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the Campaign Legal Center and of the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. His many books include The Permanent Campaign and Its Future; Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy, both with Thomas E. Mann; and Debt and Taxes: How America Got Into Its Budget Mess and What to Do About It, with John H. Makin.



	Ovalle, Carlos

	Computer Systems Development Specialist, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin

	Mr. Ovalle serves as a Copyright Scholar for the American Library Association. As part of the Copyright Advisory Network team, he helped to create and manages the ALA's CAN Web site, an online resource that answers librarians' and others’ questions about copyright. He examines copyright-related issues for ALA, including how copyright affects academic, public and school libraries, and he provides workshops and lectures on the subject for librarians and educators. He assists the ACLU of Texas in their cyberliberties area, and is on the board of directors of EFF-Austin.



	Parloff, Roger

	Senior Editor (Legal Affairs), Fortune Magazine

	Roger Parloff is a senior writer at FORTUNE, where he covers a wide range of legal issues—from mass torts to intellectual property. Formerly a practicing criminal litigation attorney in Manhattan, he has been a full-time journalist since 1988. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Lawyer, Inside.com, New York, Legal Affairs, Legal Times, and Spectrum. He has been a regular contributor to FORTUNE since 2002. Parloff won a National Magazine Award in 1993 for a commentary in The American Lawyer magazine. His March 2002 FORTUNE article about the asbestos litigation crisis—“The $200 Billion Miscarriage of Justice”—was selected for inclusion in The Best Business Stories of the Year. Parloff is also the author of Triple Jeopardy (Little, Brown and Company, 1996), a non-fiction book about the death penalty. He has a B.A. from Harvard and a J.D. from Yale Law School.



	Pooler, Rosemary S.

	Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

	Rosemary S. Pooler is a United States Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At the time of her appointment in 1998, she was a United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York. Judge Pooler received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1959, an M.A. in History from the University of Connecticut in 1961, and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1965. She also attended the Program for Senior Managers in Government of Harvard University in 1978, and earned a Graduate Certificate in Regulatory Economics from the State University of New York at Albany in 1978. Judge Pooler engaged in the private practice of law in Syracuse from 1966 until 1972. She served as Assistant Corporation Counsel/Director of the Consumer Affairs Unit for the City of Syracuse from 1972 to 1973. From 1974 to 1975, Judge Pooler was a District Representative on the Common Council of the City of Syracuse. From 1975 until 1980 she was Chair and Executive Director of the Consumer Protection Board of the State of New York. She served as a member of the New York State Public Service Commission from 1981 until 1986. In 1987, Judge Pooler was Staff Director of the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions of the New York State Assembly. She was Visiting Professor of Law at Syracuse University from 1987 until 1988, and was Vice-President for Legal Affairs of the Atlantic States Legal Foundation from 1989 until 1990. In 1990, she became a Justice of the Supreme Court, Fifth Judicial District, State of New York, and served in this position until becoming a United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York in 1994. Judge Pooler is a native of the City of New York.



	Rosen, Jeffrey

	Professor of Law, The George Washington University School of Law

	Professor Rosen teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure, and the law of privacy. He is also the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. His first book, The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (2001) was called by the New York Times “the definitive text on privacy perils in the digital age.” His latest book, The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age (2004) was called by the Harvard Law Review a “thoughtful and engaging read ... [that] provides much-needed depth to the debate over balancing privacy and security in an age of terrorism.” He is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. His essays and book reviews have appeared in many publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer. He is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio.



	Scafidi, Susan

	Associate Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law

	Professor Susan Scafidi specializes in the fields of intellectual property and cultural property, and she has testified before Congress regarding the proposed extension of intellectual property protection to fashion design. She is currently a visiting professor at Fordham Law School, as well as an associate professor of law and adjunct professor of history at SMU. Professor Scafidi has also taught at the University of Chicago, Saint Louis University School of Law, the Yale Law School, and the Georgetown University Law Center. Following graduation from the Yale Law School and Duke University, Professor Scafidi served as law clerk to the Honorable Morris S. Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. She also pursued graduate study in legal history at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. Professor Scafidi is the author of Who Owns Culture? Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law (2005) and a website on law and fashion, Counterfeit Chic.



	Scherer, Nancy

	Professor, Wellesley College

	Scherer has research and teaching interests in American politics with a primary emphasis on judicial politics and public law. Her research focuses on judicial behavior and the federal court appointment process. She is the author of the book Scoring Points: Politicians, Activists and the Lower Court Appointment Process. She has also published in the journals Political Science Quarterly, Law and Society Review and Judicature. She was the 2002 recipient of the Edwin S. Corwin Award, given by the American Political Science Association, for best dissertation on public law. She is the author of Scoring Points: Politicians, Political Activists and the Lower Federal Court Appointment Process, published by Stanford University Press.



	Scullin, Jr., Frederick J.

	Senior Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York

	Senior Judge Scullin, a native of Syracuse, New York, attended and graduated from Niagara University in 1961 and Syracuse University College of Law in 1964. In November 1964, Senior Judge Scullin entered active duty with the United States Army, received training as a paratrooper and ranger, and thereafter served as an infantry commander with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in the Republic of Vietnam. Following active military service, Senior Judge Scullin entered the private practice of law with the firm of Germain and Germain in Syracuse, New York. Thereafter, he served as an Assistant District Attorney for Onondaga County. In 1971, the New York State Attorney General appointed him as one of the original prosecutors of the then newly-formed Statewide Organized Crime Task Force; and, in that capacity, he served as the Assistant in Charge of the Albany Regional Office. In 1978, the Governor of the State of Florida appointed him as Chief Prosecutor of the Governor’s Council for the prosecution of organized crime. He returned to the private practice of law in 1980; and in 1982 he was appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, a position he held until his appointment to the federal bench. In March 2004, then-Chief Justice Rehnquist appointed Senior Judge Scullin to a seven-year term on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which is in session throughout the year in Washington D.C. Senior Judge Scullin is also a member of the Federal Court Bar Association for the Northern District of New York, Federal Bar Council, State of Florida Bar Association, Onondaga County Bar Association (having served on the Board of Directors from 1998 to 1990), honorary member of the Board of Advisors, Syracuse University College of Law, and the Law College Association of Syracuse University. He is also a past member and chairman of the City of Syracuse, County of Onondaga, Drug & Alcohol Abuse Commission; a member of the Board of Directors, Elmcrest Children’s Center; and a member of the Franciscan Collaborative Ministries Advisory Council. Senior Judge Scullin is married to the former Veronica (Cricket) Terek. They have five daughters and reside in Liverpool, New York.



	See, Harold

	Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

	Justice See's publications include The Commercial Law of Intellectual Property; "The Separation of Powers and the Public Policy Role of a State Court in a Routine Case"; and "An Essay on Legal Ethics and the Search for Truth."



	Slotnick, Barry

	Partner and Chair, Intellectual Property and Entertainment Litigation Group, Loeb & Loeb LLP

	Barry Slotnick is a nationally recognized copyright and trademark litigator who has represented clients in the entertainment, advertising, licensing and merchandising industries in courts throughout the United States. His clients have included entertainment companies such as SONY BMG Entertainment, Bertelsmann, EMI Music, The Lyons Group (producers of "Barney & Friends"), Brockum, Peer Music, Windswept Holdings, Rainbow Media, American Movie Classics, Independent Film Channel, Broadcast Music Inc., Sociedad General de Autores y Editores and the Recording Industry Association of America. He also has represented artists and creators such as the Allman Bros. Band, Beastie Boys, Linkin Park, Billy Squier, Queensryche, Gian Marco and the J.R.R. Tolkien Estate. His representation includes companies such as Anheuser-Busch, CKx, Dell Computers, DDB Worldwide, Eveready Battery, Motorola, Toyota and Harley Davidson. Mr. Slotnick has litigated scores of copyright and trademark infringement cases as well as numerous matters in the entertainment industry addressing the respective rights of copyright and trademark owners and users, including numerous cases involving rights of privacy and publicity. As a frequent speaker, Mr. Slotnick regularly contributes on copyright and entertainment issues for the Practicing Law Institute and other industry groups. Mr. Slotnick did his undergraduate work at Queens College and earned his law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law.



	Stimson, David

	Chief Trademark Counsel, Eastman Kodak Company

	Mr. Stimson has worldwide responsibility for Kodak’s trademarks and copyrights. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He was president of the International Trademark Association from 1997 to 1998. He was a member of INTA’s Select Committee on the Federal Trademark Dilution Act and currently serves on INTA’s International Amicus Committee. He was a member of the Trademark Public Advisory Committee to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from 2000 to 2003. He has taught courses on trademark law and internet law at Syracuse University College of Law and the University of Cincinnati College of Law.



	Taricani, Jim

	Investigative Reporter, WJAR-TV

	Taricani is an investigative reporter for WJAR’s I-Team. He received the 2005 Press Freedom Award from the Radio/Television News Directors Association and was honored by the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press for Ethics in Journalism. He received a six-month home confinement sentence for refusing to disclose a confidential source. He won the Edward R. Murrow award in 1996 for investigative reporting and has received four Emmy Awards and has nine Emmy nominations, as well as 12 Associated Press awards, and a "professionalism" award from the Radio/Television News Directors Association. Taricani has appeared on "NBC Nightly News," MSNBC's Chris Matthews program, "Greater Boston" on WGBH in Boston and featured in articles in The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and The Providence Journal, regarding the importance of having Congress pass a federal shield law for reporters. He was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, and received an outstanding airman award while serving in the NATO forces in England in 1969. He is a member of the board of directors of Amos House in Providence and volunteers for the National Kidney Foundation and the New England Organ Bank.



	Tarr, G. Alan

	Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, Camden

	Professor Tarr is the Director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-Camden. He serves as editor of State Constitutions of the United States, a 52-volume reference series (Greenwood Press) and as co-editor, with Robert Williams, of "Subnational Constitutions" for the International Encyclopedia of Laws (Kluwer). He is the author of Understanding State Constitutions, (Princeton University Press) and Judicial Process and Judicial Policymaking, (West); co-author of State Supreme Courts in State and Nation, (Yale University Press) and of American Constitutional Law, (St. Martin's Press); and editor and contributor to Constitutional Politics in the States, (Greenwood) and Federalism and Rights, (Rowman & Littlefield). He has served as an advisor on subnational constitution-making and federalism in Russia, South Africa, and Cyprus, and currently serves on the Advisory Council of the National Constitution Center.



	Tober, Steve

	Former Chairman, ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary

	Tober is the former chairman of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. He practices in New Hampshire and has been active in state and national bar leadership, including the New Hampshire Bar Association, the New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Tober has twice received the New Hampshire Bar Association’s President’s Distinguished Service Award; Served as a member of the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s Board of Bar Examiners, and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Layers, the American Bar Foundation (Eastern regional chair), and the New Hampshire Bar Foundation. He is a graduate of Syracuse University College of Law.



	Toobin, Jeffrey

	Legal Analyst, CNN

	Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker where he has covered legal affairs for the magazine since 1993. He is also a legal analyst for CNN. He joined CNN in 2002 from ABC News. At The New Yorker, he has written articles on such subjects as Attorney General John Ashcroft, the 2001 dispute over Florida's votes for president, the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the trial of Timothy McVeigh. Previously, Toobin served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn. He also served as an associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, an experience that provided the basis for his first book, Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case--United States v. Oliver North. Toobin has written several critically acclaimed, best-selling books including A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal that Nearly Brought Down a President; The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson; and Too Close to Call: The 36-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election. Toobin earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard College and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.