Convictions is Slate's blogging destination for smart legal conversation and commentary. Law plays an increasingly important role in American public and private life, defining the myriad ways we interact, transact, relate and dispute with each other. We hope that, by sharing their own convictions on this blog, our contributors will help inform and shape the American conversation about law.
Contributors
Diane Marie Amann is a visiting professor of law at UC-Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, and a professor of law at UC-Davis School of Law (Martin Luther King Jr. Hall). Among her areas of specialty is how U.S. courts respond to the globalization of law and legal disputes. She specializes in international law and federal criminal law, among other subjects, and is a co-author of the blog IntlLawGrrls.
Jack Balkin is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School; he is also co-author of the popular legal blog Balkinization.
David Barron is a professor of law at Harvard, where his research interests include Constitutional law, administrative law, local government, and property law.
Emily Bazelon is a Slate senior editor. She edits the magazine's health and law columns, and writes about law and family.
Rosa Brooks is an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a law professor at Georgetown University. Her Web site is http://www.rosabrooks.com/.
Phillip Carter practices government contracts law with McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP in New York City, and edits Convictions for Slate.
Walter Dellinger is a former acting solicitor general of the United States and is a law professor at Duke University.
David Feige is the author of Indefensible and a professor of law at Seton Hall Law School. (He's currently on leave while writing a television show called Raising the Bar.)
Richard Thompson Ford is the George E. Osborne professor of law at Stanford University, where he specializes in civil rights and anti-discrimination law.
Judge Nancy Gertner serves as a federal district judge in the District of Massachusetts and teaches at Yale Law School. Prior to confirmation as a judge in 1994, she practiced law in Boston.
Dawn Johnsen is professor of law and Ira C. Batman faculty fellow at the Indiana University School of Law. She previously served as a deputy assistant attorney general and then the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel.
Patrick Radden Keefe is a fellow at the Century Foundation in New York. He writes about intelligence, national security, civil liberties, and crime for The New Yorker and Slate.<?xml:namespace prefix = o />
Orin Kerr is a law professor at George Washington University Law School, where he teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and computer crime law. In addition to Convictions, Kerr also contributes to the Volokh Conspiracy.
Douglas Kmiec is professor of constitutional law and Caruso Family Chair in Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University. He previously served as dean of Catholic University's School of Law, and as assistant attorney general (Office of Legal Counsel) for the Reagan and Bush administrations.
Marty Lederman is a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. He previously served as an attorney-advisor in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel from 1994 to 2002, and contributes frequently to Balkinization.
Dahlia Lithwick is a Slate senior editor. She covers the Supreme Court and legal issues.
Deborah Pearlstein is a visiting scholar at Princeton University's Law and Public Affairs Program. She previously served as the founding director of the Law and Security Program at Human Rights First and as a speechwriter in the Clinton White House.
Eric Posner is Kirkland and Ellis professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. His current research focuses on international law, immigration law, and foreign relations law.
Adam White practices primarily appellate and administrative law in Washington, D.C. He also contributes on legal matters to the Weekly Standard Online. His research focuses on administrative law and energy law.
Benjamin Wittes is a fellow and research director in governance studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Tim Wu is a professor of law at Columbia University and co-author of Who Controls the Internet?
Kenji Yoshino is Guido Calabresi Professor of law and former Deputy Dean at Yale Law School, and one of the nation's leading experts on constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, and law and literature.