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Raymond Ku is Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Co-Director of Case’s Center for Law, Technology and the Art. He received his J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law where he was a Leonard Boudin First Amendment Fellow in the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, and his A.B. with Honors from Brown University where he was the recipient of the Philo Sherman Bennet Prize for the best political science thesis discussing the principles of free government. Professor Ku clerked for the Honorable Timothy K. Lewis, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then practiced constitutional, intellectual property, and antitrust law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, and First Amendment/media and intellectual property law with Levine Pierson Sullivan & Koch, L.L.P., both in Washington, D.C. He has taught at Cornell Law School, Seton Hall University School of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and St. Thomas University School of Law. An internationally recognized scholar, Professor Ku writes on legal issues impacting individual liberty, creativity, and technology. His articles appear in the law reviews and journals of Berkeley, Chicago, Fordham, Georgetown, Minnesota, Stanford, Tulane, Vanderbilt, and Wisconsin among others, and he is the lead author of the [first casebook devoted exclusively to the study of cyberspace law](https://www.amazon.com/Cyberspace-Law-Cases-Materials-Casebook/dp/1454837667/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Raymond+ku&qid=1576993510&s=books&sr=1-1) . Professor Ku was the 2009 recipient of the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teacher Award, and voted Professor of the Year by the graduating class of 2009. 

Josh Russell teaches graduate and undergraduate fiction and creative nonfiction workshops, and seminars on contemporary literature and the form and theory of fiction. His teaching, research, and creative interests include the novel, the novella, the short story (and the very short story), historical fiction, and creative nonfiction. He is the author of three novels: *Yellow Jack*, *My Bright Midnight*, and *A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, & Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag*. His novella, *Dakota*, appeared in Epoch in 2005, and a limited-edition fiction chapbook, Winter on Fifth Avenue, New York, was published by Oat City Press in 1997. His writing has been anthologized in New Stories from the South, French Quarter Fiction, Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover, Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader, Contemporary American Short Shorts, and elsewhere. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared most recently in Epoch, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, American Book Review, and Black Warrior Review. Russell is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Prose and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Shane Stevens Fellowship in the Novel, as well as grants and fellowships from the University of Florida, Tulane University, and Georgia State University. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland (BA) and Louisiana State University (MFA). After teaching at the University of Florida and Tulane University, he joined the Georgia State faculty in 2004. In 2007 he was promoted to Associate Professor of English and awarded tenure, and in 2010 he was appointed Co-Director of the Creative Writing Program. He is faculty advisor for New South and associate editor at Five Points.

Professor and Vice Dean Peter A. Joy is well known for his work in clinical legal education, legal ethics, and trial practice. As co-director of the Criminal Justice Clinic, he supervises student-lawyers who provide direct legal representation to clients and work with experienced public defenders on criminal matters. In addition to his clinical work and teaching, Vice Dean Joy has written extensively and presented nationally and internationally on clinical legal education, legal ethics, lawyer and judicial professionalism, and access to criminal justice issues. Past director of the law school’s Trial & Advocacy Program, he is a recipient of the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) Pincus Award. He currently is a member of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar's Accreditation Committee; chair elect of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Professional Responsibility Section; former chair of the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education; a board member of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT); and former president of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA). Vice Dean Joy also serves on the Board of Editors of the Clinical Law Review and is a contributing editor of ABA Criminal Justice where he co-authors an ethics column. Before becoming a law professor, he was of counsel at Meckler & Meckler in Cleveland, Ohio, and he started his legal career as National Co-Director for the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council (LSCRRC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Adam Babich teaches environmental law and directs the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic. Before joining the Tulane faculty, Adam was a Chicago-based litigator whose practice emphasized environmental and insurance-related disputes. He has also served as an environmental enforcement lawyer for the Colorado Attorney General, as adjunct attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund, as editor-in-chief of the Environmental Law Reporter, and as a judicial law clerk for the Colorado Supreme Court. He has taught at Georgetown University Law Center, American University, and the University of Denver and has an extensive publications record.

Jonathan Schell is the author of 13 books, including *The Fate of the Earth*. He has taught at man universities, including Princeton, Emory, Wesleyan and the Yale Law School He is currently the Doris Shaffer Fellow at the Nation Institute.

Jonathan Entin has taught Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Courts, Public Policy, and Social Change, and a Supreme Court Seminar. Before joining the faculty in 1984, he clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (when she was on the U.S. court of Appeals) and practiced in Washington with Steptoe & Johnson. The recipient of several teaching awards and a former co-editor of the Journal of Legal Education, he is at work on a book about equal protection. Among his recent publications are "An Ohio Dilemma: Race, Equal Protection, and the Unfulfilled Promise of a State Bill of Rights," Cleveland State Law Review (2004), and "Judicial Selection and Political Culture," Capital University Law Review (2002).

Daniel F. Akerson was elected chief executive officer of General Motors Company on August 11, 2010. He became CEO effective September 1. Prior to joining General Motors, Akerson was a managing director of The Carlyle Group and the head of global buyout. He served on the firm's executive committee and was based in Washington, D.C. Akerson is a seasoned executive with extensive operating and management experience, having served as chairman, chief executive officer, or president of several major companies, including General Instrument, MCI, Nextel, and XO Communications. His corporate management experience, private equity track record, and deep understanding of Carlyle’s global operation provided a strong foundation for his leadership of Carlyle’s buyout activities in Asia, Europe, Financial Services, Infrastructure, Japan, and the United States. Prior to joining Carlyle, Akerson served in several key roles at MCI Communications Corporation from 1983-1993 including executive vice president and chief financial officer from 1987-1990 and president and chief operating officer from 1992-1993. During his tenure, Akerson formulated and executed MCI’s global strategy. In 1993, Akerson become a general partner of private equity firm Forstmann Little & Company, during which time he served as chairman and chief executive officer of General Instrument Company from 1993-1995. While at General Instrument, he led a successful effort to develop and deploy the first digital video, satellite, and cable systems domestically and internationally. Akerson served as chairman from 1996-2001 and as chief executive officer of Nextel Communications, Inc., from 1996-1999, where he transitioned the company from a regional analog walkie/talkie provider into a national digital wireless competitor. From late 1999 until January 2003, Akerson served as chairman and chief executive officer of XO Communications, Inc. where he led the successful restructuring of the company. In addition to serving on GM's board, Akerson also serves on the board of the American Express Company. Akerson graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1970 with a bachelor of science in engineering. He earned his M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics.

Frederick Schauer is David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. Previously he served for 18 years as Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where he has served as academic dean and acting dean, and before that was a professor of law at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Law of Obscenity (BNA, 1976), Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry (Cambridge, 1982), Playing By the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life (Clarendon/Oxford, 1991), Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (Belknap/Harvard, 2003), and Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Harvard, 2009). He is also co-editor of The Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings (1996) and The First Amendment: A Reader (1995), and author of numerous articles on constitutional law and theory, freedom of speech and press, legal reasoning and the philosophy of law. Schauer is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, has been vice-president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and chair of the Committee on Philosophy and Law of the American Philosophical Association, and was a founding co-editor of the journal Legal Theory. He has also been the Fischel-Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, Ewald Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, Morton Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities at Dartmouth College, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, and Distinguished Visitor at the New York University School of Law. His work on rules, legal reasoning, constitutional theory and freedom of speech has been the subject of a book Rules and Reasoning: Essays in Honour of Fred Schauer (Hart, 1999) and symposia in Politeia, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the Notre Dame, Connecticut, and Quinnipiac law reviews. In 2007-08 Schauer was the George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University and a fellow of Balliol College. A graduate of Dartmouth College, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, and Harvard Law School, Schauer was the recipient of a university-wide Distinguished Teacher Award from Harvard University in 2004.

Ms. Hill joined the faculty in 2003 after practicing First Amendment and civil rights law with the firm of Berkman, Gordon, Murray & DeVan in Cleveland. Before entering private practice, Ms. Hill worked at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the national ACLU office in New York, litigating challenges to state-law restrictions on reproductive rights. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Ms. Hill's teaching focuses on constitutional law, federal civil procedure, civil rights, reproductive rights, and law and religion. Her scholarship has been published in the Michigan Law Review and the Texas Law Review, among others.

Professor Corbin holds a B.A. from Harvard University (1991) and a J.D. from Columbia Law School (2001). She was a James Kent Scholar while at Columbia Law School, where she also won the Pauline Berman Heller Prize and the James A. Elkins Prize for Constitutional Law. Following law school, she clerked for the Hon. M. Blane Michael of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She then litigated as a pro bono fellow at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and as an attorney at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Columbia Law School immediately prior to joining the University of Miami faculty. Professor Corbin’s primary area of research is the First Amendment, and her articles have appeared in the *New York University Law Review*, *UCLA Law Review*, and *Boston University Law Review*.

Mary Jean Dolan joined the faculty in 2007 and teaches Constitutional Law, Family Law, Lawyering Skills, and Religion & Law. She has written and presented extensively on the First Amendment, an area in which she gained expertise by writing laws and policies for the City of Chicago. In 2009, the amicus brief she authored for the International Municipal Lawyers' Association was cited and relied on by the United States Supreme Court majority in *Pleasant Grove City v. Summum*. Professor Dolan's articles have appeared in journals including the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, the William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, the Catholic University Law Review, the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, and the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. Professor Dolan also has taught as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Florida and IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she developed scholarly interest in family law, feminist theory, and legal pedagogy. She clerked for Judge Ilana Rovner, then on the US District Court, worked as an associate at Mayer Brown in Chicago, and was an editor of the *Northwestern University Law Review*.

Serving as Creative Director and Executive Producer at Turner Studios, Mike runs the creative on core client projects, including brand identity, digital promotion, streaming services, social media, mobile, video, brand marketing, and corporate site development. He also serves as Managing Editor of the career blog TheDailyBoss - “leadership for the leadership impaired” - where he posts tips and guidance for students who are just beginning their careers and for all those who are not happy sticking with the tried and true.