Economics Program at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cambridge and is the author of Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens (2006), Early Greek Lawgivers (2007), and Nothing Less Than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History (2010). He is Senior Research Scholar in History and Classics at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, and has published in journals that include Polis, Dike, and Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 
Loren E. Lomasky is Cory Professor of Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law at the University of Virginia, where he directs the Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law Program. He previously taught at Bowling Green State University and the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and has held visiting positions at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Australian National University, the Australian Defence Force Academy, and the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community (1987), for which he was awarded the 1990 Matchette Prize. His other books include Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (coauthored with Geoffrey Brennan, 1993), and Politics and Process: New Essays in Democratic Theory (coedited with Geoffrey Brennan, 1989). 
Michael Zuckert is Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He has written extensively on the liberal tradition in political philosophy and American constitutionalism. He is currently completing a book entitled Natural Rights and American Constitutionalism. 
Felix Valenzuela is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a J.D. degree from Yale Law School and is currently at work on a critical study of the recent literature on constitutional failure. 
Fernando R. Tesón is Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University College of Law. A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he is known for his scholarship relating political philosophy to international law and for his work on political rhetoric. He is the author of A Philosophy of International Law (1998), Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality (3d ed., 2005), and Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation (with Guido Pincione, 2006). Before joining Florida State University in 2003, he taught for seventeen years at Arizona State University. He has served as a visiting professor at Cornell Law School, Indiana University School of Law, and the University of California Hastings College of Law, and is Permanent Visiting Professor at Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires. 
Sanford Levinson is W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood Jr. Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School. He is also Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Stanford University Law School. He has taught at Princeton University and has held visiting appointments at the Harvard, Yale, New York University, Georgetown, and Boston University law schools, as well as law schools in France, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, and Australia. Among his books are Constitutional Faith (1988) and Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It) (2006). He is the author of more than 250 articles in professional and popular journals and was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.