| Stephen Vladeck holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law and is a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts, constitutional law, national security law, and military justice. He is co-author of Aspen Publishers’ leading national security law and counterterrorism law casebooks, and his work has been published in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Slate. He has argued cases before the Supreme Court and has been CNN’s Supreme Court Analyst since 2013. Vladeck lives in Austin, Texas.
James Carroll is the author of twelve novels, and eight works of nonfiction. For twenty-three years, he wrote a weekly op-ed column for The Boston Globe. He has received the National Book Award, the PEN Galbraith Award, and the Scripps Howard Journalism Award. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His most recent book is The Truth at the Heart of the Lie: How the Catholic Church Lost Its Soul (Random House, 2021). He lives in Boston, with his wife the writer Alexandra Marshall.
Robin Davidson is a poet, literary translator, and professor emerita for the University of Houston Downtown. Most recently she has authored the poetry collection, Mrs. Schmetterling (Arrowsmith Press, 2021), and with Ewa Elzbieta Nowakowska, has translated Ewa Lipska’s poems, Dear Ms. Schubert, from the Polish (Princeton UP, 2021). She lives in Houston and serves as chair of the Texas Chapter of Writers for Democratic Action. |
