April 22, 2005

Speaker Biographies

David E. Bernstein is a professor at the George Mason University School of Law where he has been teaching since 1995. He is the author of over sixty frequently-cited scholarly articles, book chapters, and think tank studies, including recent articles and review essays in the Yale Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Texas Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, and California Law Review. Mr. Bernstein is also the author of You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws (Cato Institute, 2003); the author of Only One Place of Redress: African-Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal (Duke, 2001); and the co-author of The New Wigmore: Expert Evidence (Aspen Law and Business 2003). He is a contributor to the popular weblog, The Volokh Conspiracy (http://volokh.com).

Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI where he directs the Federalism Project and the Liability Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve co-founded and, from 1989 to February 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), a public interest law firm which served as counsel in many precedent-setting constitutional cases, including United States v. Morrison (2000) and Rosenberger v. University of Virginia (1995). Mr. Greve's most recent publications include Harm-Less Lawsuits? What’s Wrong with Consumer Class Actions (AEI, 2005); and Competition Laws in Conflict: Antitrust Jurisdiction in the Global Economy (co-edited with Richard Epstein) (AEI, 2004).

Jeffrey Rosen is a professor at the George Washington University School of Law and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. His first book was The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (Vintage, 2001), which The New York Times called "the definitive text on privacy perils in the digital age." His new book, The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age (Random House, 2004), was called "the most disturbing book of the year" by the London Guardian. Mr. Rosen's essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, National Public Radio, and The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer.

G. Edward White joined the University of Virginia law faculty in 1972 after a clerkship with Chief Justice Warren of the Supreme Court and a year as visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation. A distinguished writer and lecturer, Mr. White has been the editor of the Studies in Legal History series, advisor on law manuscripts for Oxford University Press, and a member of the editorial board for Virginia Quarterly Review. His recent publications include "The Constitutional Journey of Marbury v. Madison," 89 Virginia Law Review 1463 (2003); "Authorized Judicial Biography: A Cautionary Tale," 7 Green Bag 2d 71 (2003); and Alger Hiss’s Looking Glass Wars (Oxford University Press, 2004). Mr. White is currently teaching a course on torts and a survey of leading American Supreme Court judges from Marshall through the Rehnquist Court.