Scott D. Gerber is Ella and Ernest Fisher Chair in Law and Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University, and Senior Research Scholar in Law and Politics at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center. He received his Ph.D. and J.D. from the University of Virginia, and his B.A. from the College of William and Mary. His published works include six books and nearly one hundred articles, book reviews, and op-eds. He clerked for U.S. District Judge Ernest C. Torres of the District of Rhode Island and practiced with a major Boston-based law firm. He is a member of the Massachusetts, Colorado, and Virginia bars, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court bar. In both 2002 and 2009, he received the Fowler V. Harper Award for excellence in legal scholarship, and in 2008, he was appointed to a two-year term on the Ohio Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He teaches constitutional law and American legal history. 
Ilya Somin is Associate Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy. His work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and Critical Review.Hehas served as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; the University of Hamburg, Germany; and Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and as an Olin Fellow at Northwestern University School of Law. 
William A. Galston is Ezra Zilkha Chair of the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, where he serves as a Senior Fellow. He is also College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. Prior to January 2006, he was Saul Stern Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, and founding director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). From 1993 until 1995, he served as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy. He is the author of eight books, the most recent of which are Liberal Pluralism (2002), The Practice of Liberal Pluralism (2004), and Public Matters (2005). A winner of the American Political Science Association's Hubert H. Humphrey Award, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. 
James S. Fishkin is Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University, where he is also Chair and Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy). He is the director of Stanford's Center for Deliberative Democracy and is the author of a number of books, including When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation (2009), The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy (1995), The Dialogue of Justice (1992), and Democracy and Deliberation (1991). He is the coauthor, with Bruce Ackerman, of Deliberation Day (2004). 
Guido Pincione is Professor of Philosophy and Law at Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, and was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University in 2009-2010. He has taught previously at Buenos Aires University Law School and was a visiting scholar at Arizona State University College of Law, Australian National University, the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University, Corpus Christi College at Oxford University, Florida State University College of Law, Mannheim University, Université de Montreal Faculté de Droit, and University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He is the coauthor, with Fernando R. Tesón, of Rational Choice and Democrati