Professor Guy Charles
Charles S. Rhyne Professor of Law

Professor Charles received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.  While in law school, he was the founder and first editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law.  Professor Charles went on to clerk for The Honorable Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  In 2000, he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was the Russell M. and Elizabeth M. Bennet Professor of Law, and he later served as interim co-dean.  He is now the Charles S. Rhyne Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, where he is the founding director of the Duke Law Center on Law, Race and Politics.  To date, Professor Charles has been published in The Michigan Law Review, The Georgetown Law Journal, The California Law Review, and others.

 

Professor David Fontana

Associate Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School

After receiving his J.D. from Yale University in 2005, Professor Fontana clerked for the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  He joined the faculty at George Washington University Law in 2006, where he teaches constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, comparative law, criminal procedure, and criminal law.  While teaching at GW Law, Professor Fontana is also currently completing a doctoral degree in socio-legal studies at Oxford University.  His scholarship appears in a number of law reviews, including Yale Law Journal, Virginia Law Review, and Texas Law Review.

 

 

Professor Ilya Somin

Associate Professor
George Mason University School of Law

Professor Somin received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2001.  Before joining the George Mason University School of Law in 2003, he clerked for the Honorable Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  Professor Somin has published articles in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and the Georgetown Law Journal and others.  He has also published articles in the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal.com, and Legal Times, and he regularly writes for Volokh Conspiracy law and politics blog.  Professor Somin has also been interviewed or quoted by the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, and others.