The Constitution & The Economy

Erwin Chemerinsky is the founding dean and distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in Political Science.

Elizabeth Price Foley is the Institute for Justice Chair in Constitutional Litigation and Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law. Her research centers on the intersection of health care and constitutional law. She is the author of Liberty for All:  Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality (Yale 2006), The Law of Life and Death (Harvard 2011), and is currently working on a book about the tea party, forthcoming in early 2012 from Cambridge University Press.

Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, is the Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee and a member of the Joint Committee on Taxation.

David M. Primo is Associate Professor of Political Science and Business Administration at the University of Rochester and a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.  He is the author of Rules and Restraint: Government Spending and the Design of Institutions (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Congressman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) represents southern West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.  He was first elected in 1976 after serving as a Congressional aide to U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia.

Eric J. Segall is a Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law and the author of the forthcoming book Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is not a Court and its Justices are not Judges.

Laurence S. Seidman is the Chaplin Tyler Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware.