Please click on the keynote speaker, panelist, or moderator below for which you would like to read a short biography. The speakers are divided into the keynote speaker, panelists, and moderators, and then organized by last name.

Keynote Speaker:
John Osborn

Panelists:
Ann Althouse
Jack Balkin
Randy E. Barnett
Rosa Brooks
Paul Caron
Adam Cohen
Jamie Heller
Bernard Hibbitts
James Lindgren
Dahlia Lithwick
Lawrence B. Solum
Richard Sweren

Moderators:
Rodger Citron
Brandt Goldstein
Cameron Stracher


Professor Ann Althouse, Panelist, Just Cite It! The Traditional Law Review Structure
Professor Althouse, professor of law at the University of Wisconsin School of Law, is also a distinguished author and blogger. Professor Althouse is the editor of the very popular political and legal blog Althouse. Professor Althouse received her J.D. from the New York University School of Law and clerked for the Honorable Leonard B. Sand in the Southern District of New York. Click here for more information and for the source of the above photo and text. 

Professor Jack Balkin, Panelist, Beyond the Bluebook: The Future of Writing About the Law
Professor Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Professor Balkin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Cambridge University and his A.B. and J.D. from Harvard. He clerked for Judge Carolyn Dineen King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. His books include Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, Legal Canons, and What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said. Click here for more information and for the source of the above photo and text.

Professor Randy E. Barnett, Panelist, Just Cite It! The Traditional Law Review Structure
Professor Barnett, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, is also a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the Goldwater Institute. Professor Barnett is an expert in constitutional law, contracts, philosophy of law, and individual liberty, and has also published more than eighty articles and reviews, as well as seven books, including Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty and The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law. Click here fore more information and for the source of the above photo. 

Professor Rosa Brooks, Panelist, Beyond the Bluebook: The Future of Writing About the Law
Professor Brooks is a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times (she is currently on leave from Georgetown to serve as Special Counsel at the Open Society Institute in New York). Before teaching, Professor Brooks worked at the U.S. Department of State, where she was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Professor Brooks has written numerous articles and op-eds appearing in publications which include The Washington Post and The New York Times. She received her A.B. from Harvard, M.St. from Oxford, and J.D. from Yale. Click here for more information.

Professor Paul Caron, Panelist, Just Cite It! The Traditional Law Review Structure
Professor Caron is a professor of law at the University of Cincinnati School of Law and is also the publisher and editor of TaxProf Blog. Professor Caron is one of the leading national tax scholars of his generation. He is co-editor of three electronic journals of Tax Law Abstracts published by the Legal Scholarship Network: Tax Law & Policy and Practitioner Series and International & Comparative Tax. Professor Caron received his J.D. from Cornell University School of Law and his LLM in tax from Boston University. Click here for more information and for the source of the above photo and text.

Professor Rodger Citron, Moderator, Beyond the Bluebook: The Future of Writing About the Law
Professor Citron is an Assistant Professor of Law at Touro Law Center. He is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. Professor Citron's law review articles have been published in the Michigan State Law Review, the Administrative Law Review and the Review of Litigation, and his student note in the Yale Law Journal has been cited by two courts and in more than 20 law review articles. His articles also have been published on Slate, and in The Hartford Courant and The Legal Times.  Click here for more information and for the source of the above photo and text.


Adam Cohen, Panelist, Lost in Translation (?) Writing About the Law for a Non-Legal Audience
Adam Cohen is an editorial board member with The New York Times. Mr. Cohen is also a lawyer and author, with a particular interest in legal issues, politics, and technology. He also assigns and edits Talking Points, the extended editorial essays on a wide range of issues that are written by members of the editorial board for TimesSelect. Before joining the Times editorial board in 2002, he was a senior writer at Time, where he wrote about the Supreme Court, Internet privacy, and the Microsoft antitrust case, among other topics. Mr. Cohen received his J.D. from Harvard where he was editor in chief of the Law Review. Click here for more information and for the source of the above text.

Jamie Heller, Panelist, Lost in Translation (?) Writing About the Law for a Non-Legal Audience
Jamie Heller is the law editor for the Wall Street Journal.  In that capacity she oversees coverage of lawyers and law firms for the print and online editions as well as the Online Journal's Law Blog.  She is also Deputy Managing Editor at The Wall Street Journal Online.  She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School.

Professor Bernard Hibbitts, Panelist, Beyond the Bluebook: The Future of Writing About the Law
Professor Hibbitts is a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is the founder and current Editor in Chief of JURIST. He publishes frequently on legal history and on past, present, and even future forms of legal discourse. His work has been printed in Law and History Review, New York University Law Review, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, McGill Law Journal, Serials Review, American Ethnologist, British Medical Journal, Afronet, and Wired Magazine. Click here for more information.

Professor James Lindgren, Panelist, Just Cite It! The Traditional Law Review Structure
Professor Lindgren, professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law, is also the co-founder of the section on Scholarship of the Association of American Law Schools. He is a leading scholar in the growing movement of New Legal Empiricists. Most of his current projects examine the roles that viewpoint diversity plays in American society and the history of guns in probate records. He is also an influential scholar in the area of blackmail and extortion. Professor Lindgren received his J.D. from the University of Chicago. Click here for more information and for the source of the above photo and text.

Dahlia Lithwick, Panelist, Lost in Translation (?) Writing About the Law for a Non-Legal Audience
Dahlia Lithwick is the Supreme Court reporter for Slate.Magazine. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for Slate. Ms. Lithwick is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School. Click here for more information and for the source of the above text.

Professor John Osborn, Lunch/Keynote Address
Professor Osborn, visiting professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, is the author of several novels including The Paper Chase, The Associates, and The Man Who Owned New York. His articles, stories, book reviews, and essays have appeared in the New York University Law Review, the Cardozo Journal of Law and Literature, The Washington Post, The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, California Lawyer, and many other publications. Professor Osborn received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third circuit. Click here for more information and for the source of the above photo and text.

Professor Lawrence B. Solum, Panelist, Beyond the Bluebook: The Future of Writing About the Law
Professor Solum, professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law, is the author of Legal Theory Blog, which receives as many as 5,000 hits per day. Professor Solum is an internationally recognized expert on Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property Law, and Legal Theory. He has lectured in these areas in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He was nominated in 2004 as among the country’s top 20 most influential and important legal thinkers by Legal Affairs Magazine. Professor Solum received his J.D. from Harvard. Click here for more information and for the source of the above photo and text.

Richard Sweren, Panelist, lost in Translation (?) Writing About the Law for a Non-Legal Audience
Richard Sweren is a writer and co-executive producer for the popular TV series Law & Order. He has written or co-written over 50 episodes. Sweren is a co-winner of the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Drama in 1998 and a two-time winner of the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. Prior to his career in TV, Sweren was a public defender in Brooklyn and Manhattan.