Stephen I. Vladeck is a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and is a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts; the Supreme Court; national security law; and military justice.

Vladeck is author of the New York Times bestselling book, “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic,” which won the 2023 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the 2024 ABA Silver Gavel Award for Media and the Arts. Vladeck is also a highly regarded appellate advocate, having argued three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and over a dozen before various lower federal civilian and military courts. He has received numerous awards for his influential and widely cited legal scholarship, his prolific popular writing, his teaching, and his service to the legal profession—including the 2024 University of Texas President’s Research Impact Award and his selection by the Order of the Coif to serve as its Distinguished Visiting Professor for 2025.

Vladeck is CNN’s Supreme Court analyst and editor and author of “One First,” a popular weekly newsletter about the Supreme Court. Together with Bobby Chesney, Vladeck co-hosts the popular and award-winning “National Security Law Podcast.” He is also a co-author of Aspen Publishers’ leading national security law and counterterrorism law casebooks. And he is a member of the Board of Trustees of EarthJustice—the nation’s premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization.

Vladeck graduated from Yale Law School in 2004—where he was executive editor of the Yale Law Journal and won the Harlan Fiske Stone Prize for outstanding moot court oralist and shared the Potter Stewart Prize for best moot court team performance. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He earned a B.A. summa cum laude with Highest Distinction in History and Mathematics from Amherst College in 2001—where he wrote his senior thesis on “Leipzig’s Shadow: The War Crimes Trials of the First World War and Their Implications from Nuremberg to the Present.” A native New Yorker and hopeless Mets fan, Vladeck lives in the District with his wife, Karen (Founder and Managing Partner of Risepoint Search Partners); their daughters, Madeleine and Sydney; and their eleven-year-old pug, Roxanna.

Professor Joe Regalia is an associate professor
of law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at
UNLV, which is consistently ranked among the
top legal writing programs in the nation. He is
also author of the bestselling book Level Up
Your Legal Writing: Techniques and Technology
to Supercharge Your Skills. His research and
teaching focus on persuasion science, legal
writing, and legal technology.
Joe is a nationally recognized legal writing and technology consultant and has led
thousands of workshops for legal teams across the world. He graduated first in
his class at the University of Michigan Law School. He went on to clerk for the
U.S. District Courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Joe
practiced at three global AmLaw firms.
Joe co-founded Write.law, the world's leading training company for lawyers,
judges, and legal professionals. Write.law has helped hundreds of thousands of
people level up their legal writing with interactive courses, AI-fueled learning
apps, and live training. Write.law works with teams from every corner of the legal
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Rene L. Valladares is the Federal Public Defender for the District of Nevada. He is an Adjunct Professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law. Rene was the recipient of the 2023 NACDL Champion of Justice Award-Legal Education. Rene is the author of A Defender’s Guide to Federal Evidence (now on it’s Second Edition) the only evidence practice handbook exclusively for federal criminal defense attorneys. A Defender’s Guide can be purchased at nacdl.org. All royalties from the book go toward advancing criminal justice reform.

 Daniel J. Capra is the Reed Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he teaches Evidence. He also teaches Evidence at NYU. Professor Capra is the Reporter to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules, a position he has held since 1996.

Professor Liesa Richter is William J. Alley Professor of Law and a Thomas P. Hester Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Professor Richter joined the OU Law faculty in 2001. She teaches Evidence, Civil Procedure I, Civil Procedure II, and a seminar entitled “Evidence Issues in Great Trials in History.” Her research focuses on federal evidentiary policy and rule-making and her articles have appeared in journals such as the Fordham Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review, and William & Mary Law Review. In 2009, Professor Richter was named a Thomas P. Hester Presidential Professor for her excellence in scholarship and teaching. In 2015, she was named the William J. Alley Professor of Law. She served the College as the Associate Dean of Admissions, Scholarships and Recruiting from 2007-2010 and as the Associate Dean of Faculty Scholarship and Enrichment from 2016-2017. Professor Richter was recently selected to be the Academic Consultant to the Judicial Conference Evidence Advisory Committee. She also serves on the Evidence Drafting Committee for the National Conference of Bar Examiners which drafts and reviews the evidence questions for the Multistate Bar Exam. Prior to joining the OU faculty, Professor Richter worked as a commercial litigation associate for the firm of King & Spalding, LLP and clerked for the Honorable Frank Mays Hull on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and for Judge Jack T. Camp in the Northern District of Georgia. Professor Richter graduated first in her class from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 1995, where she served as the Notes and Comments Editor for the Florida Law Review and was selected for Order of the Coif.

Bruce A. Markell is the Professor of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, and Edward Avery Harriman Lecturer in Law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He is a retired bankruptcy judge and a former member of the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. He is also a member of the Collier on Bankruptcy Board of Editors, a lifetime member of the American Law Institute, a fellow and former scholar in residence at the American College of Bankruptcy, a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference and a founding member of the International Insolvency Institute. He received the Commercial Law League’s 2022 Lawrence P. King Award, and was recently short-listed by the Global Restructuring Review as the 2024 Cross-border Insolvency Academic of the Year.

Sean McClelland is an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Nevada, and a co-chair of the Lawyer Representatives for the District. Earlier in his career, Sean practiced in the antitrust and appellate groups of a large international law firm in Washington, D.C., and clerked for Judge Haynes of the Fifth Circuit and Judge Ebinger of the Southern District of Iowa. Outside of practice, Sean co-chairs the Nevada Center for Civic Engagement and serves on the National Advisory Council for the national Center for Civic Education.