Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Founder and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is also a Professor of Politics and an associated faculty member of the Department of Philosophy at Princeton. He is a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, and previously served as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. Professor Georges articles and review essays have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Review of Politics, the Review of Metaphysics, and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He is a frequent contributor to First Things, where he is a member of the editorial advisory board, and has also written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Review, Touchstone, the Boston Review, City Journal, and the Times Literary Supplement. Among his awards and prizes are the Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement, the Philip Merrill Award of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, the Sidney Hook Award of the National Association of Scholars, the Richard M. Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters, the Paul Bator Award of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, a Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association, and the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award in Politics at Princeton. He was the 2007 John Dewey Lecturer in Philosophy of Law at Harvard. Professor George serves on the boards of directors of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Institute for American Values, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, the Family Research Council, and the Center for Individual Rights. He serves on editorial boards of the American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Journal of International Biotechnology Law, and Touchstone and First Things magazines.  In addition to his academic work, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as Of Counsel to the law firm of Robinson and McElwee. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, Professor George also earned a masters degree in theology from Harvard and a doctorate in philosophy of law from Oxford University. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Swarthmore, and received a Knox Fellowship from Harvard for graduate study in law and philosophy at Oxford. He holds honorary doctorates of law, letters, ethics, humane letters, civil law, and science.

Matthew Franck is the Chairman of Political Science at Radford University where he teaches American government, constitutional law, American political thought, and political philosophy. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. An occasional contributor of articles to National Review Online, Dr. Franck blogs for the “Bench Memos” page and is the author of Against the Imperial Judiciary: The Supreme Court vs. the Sovereignty of the People, published in 1996. A graduate of Virginia Wesleyan College, he received his Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University.

Michael J. New is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Dartmouth College, Dr. New received a masters degree in statistics and a doctorate in political science from Stanford University in 2002. Before coming to Alabama, Dr. New worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-MIT Data Center. Dr. New’s broad research interests include the impact of constitutional design on policy outcomes. Specific policy areas he has researched include budget rules and fiscal limits, pro-life legislation, and campaign finance reform. His academic writings have appeared in such journals as the Catholic Social Science Review and the Journal of Insurance Law. He has published policy studies through such think tanks as the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute. Dr. New has also had articles and editorials appear in a number of publications including Investor’s Business Daily, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Weekly Standard, National Review, National Review Online, and the New York Post. Dr. New has presented his research at forums sponsored the Family Research Council and the Cato Institute. He consistently gives presentations at the annual convention of the National Right to Life Committee. Dr. New has also given open lectures at a number of colleges and universities including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, the College of the Holy Cross, the University of Alabama Law School, Louisiana State University, and The George Washington University.

Ronald J. Rychlak is Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Mississippi, School of Law, where he has been on the faculty since 1987. He also serves as the university’s Faculty Athletic Representative to the NCAA/SEC. He is a graduate of Wabash College (BA, cum laude) and Vanderbilt University (JD, Order of the Coif). Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Rychlak practiced law with Jenner & Block in Chicago, and he served as a clerk to Hon. Harry W. Wellford of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Rychlak is an advisor to the Holy See’s delegation to the United Nations and a member of the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. He is on the committee appointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court to revise the state’s criminal code, and he serves on the editorial board of The Gaming Law Review. He is also on the Board of Advisors for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and on the Advisory Board of the International Solidarity and Human Rights Institute. Professor Rychlak is the author or co-author of six books, including Real and Demonstrative Evidence: Applications and Theory (1995, 2nd ed., 2003). Lawyers Weekly USA called that book a “very valuable resource for lawyers looking to stay on top of their changing world.” The Weekly Standard called his book, Hitler, the War, and the Pope (2000), “the best and most careful of the recent works [on the Church during World War II], an elegant tome of serious, critical scholarship.” Professor Rychlak has also contributed chapters to several books and entries to several encyclopedias. He serves as a columnist for Crisis magazine online (hosted on InsideCatholic.com), and he has been published in the Mississippi Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review, UCLA Law Review, The Stanford Environmental Law Journal, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other periodicals and journals.

Micah Watson is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Politics and Religion at Union University. He is a native of the great golden state of California where he completed his undergraduate degree at U.C. Davis. He completed his M.A. degree in Church-State Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He holds an M.A. and doctorate degree in Politics from Princeton University. He has taught previously at Villanova University and Princeton University. His broad research interests include political philosophy, politics and religion, politics and literature, and ethics and public policy. He is currently working on several projects which include how John Locke’s religious views influenced his political theory, the biblical thought of Leo Strauss and Ernest Fortin, and the reception of Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity and Enlightenment.