Stated Meeting, Chicago, IL
Saturday, November 8, 2008

Speakers:		Laurence H. Tribe (19 min.) is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School, where he has been on the faculty since 1968. Before coming to Harvard, he served as a law clerk to Matthew Tobriner on the California Supreme Court, as a law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court, and as Director of the Technology Assessment Panel of the National Academy of Sciences. He has argued numerous times before the U.S. Supreme Court, including Bush v. Gore in 2000; has often testified before Congress; assisted in drafting the constitutions of South Africa, the Czech Republic, and the Marshall Islands; and helped found the American Constitution Society. His publications include The Invisible Constitution (2008), American Constitutional Law (1978; rev. ed., 2000), On Reading the Constitution (with Michael Dorf, 1991), Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990), Constitutional Choices (1985), and God Save This Honorable Court: How the Choice of Supreme Court Justices Shapes Our History (1985). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1980.
		Frank H. Easterbrook (15 min.) has been Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2006 and has been a judge on the court since 1985. A law clerk to Levin H. Campbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, he joined the Solicitor General’s office in 1974, where he served first as Assistant to the Solicitor General and later as Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1979, where he was named Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and where he continues as Senior Lecturer in Law. Interested in antitrust law, criminal law and procedure, and other subjects involving implicit or explicit markets, he has written numerous articles and was the co-author (with Daniel R. Fischel) of “The Proper Role of a Target’s Management in Responding to a Tender Offer,” Harvard Law Review (1981), and The Economic Structure of Corporate Law (1991). Between 1982 and 1991 he was an editor of the Journal of Law and Economics. A member of the S.E.C.’s Advisory Committee on Tender Offers in 1983, he was elected to the American Law Institute in the same year and to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1992.
		Geoffrey R. Stone (14 min.) is Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1973, including terms as both Dean of the Law School and Provost of the University. Before coming to Chicago, he served as law clerk to Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court. The author of many books on constitutional law, his most recent include Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007); War and Liberty: An American Dilemma (2007); and the award-winning Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004). He is also the co-author of Constitutional Law (5th ed., 2005) and The First Amendment (2nd ed., 2003). He is currently editing a series entitled Inalienable Rights for Oxford University Press and working on a new book Sexing the Constitution, which will explore the historical evolution in Western culture of the intersection of sex, religion, and law. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1990 and has served as Vice President of its Midwest Region.

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