Advisory Board

 

Hon. Tani Cantil-Sakauye 

President and CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California

Tani Cantil-Sakauye is president and CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California, where she holds the Walter and Esther Hewlett Chair in Understanding California’s Future. From 2011 to 2022, she served as the 28th Chief Justice of California.

 

 

 

 

 

Sue Cross 

Former Executive Director of the Institute for Nonprofit News

Sue Cross was executive director of the Institute for Nonprofit News, a network of more than 400 independent nonprofit news media organizations dedicated to ensuring people in all communities have access to trusted news.

 

 

 

 

 

Hon. Wallace B.  Jefferson 

Partner at Alexander Dubose & Jefferson 

Hon. Wallace B. Jefferson is a partner at Alexander Dubose & Jefferson. Prior to joining the firm in 2013, he served as chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He was appointed to the bench by Gov. Rick Perry in 2001 and named chief justice in 2004.  
 

 

 

 

 

Dahlia Lithwick 

Senior Editor at Slate

Dahlia Lithwick is a regular contributor at MSNBC and senior editor at Slate, where she writes the Supreme Court Dispatches and Jurisprudence columns. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the New Republic, and Commentary, among other publications 
 

 

 

 

 

Hon. Bridget Mary McCormack

President and CEO of the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution

Hon. Bridget Mary McCormack is president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution. Until 2022, McCormack was chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. She first joined the court in 2013 and was named chief justice in 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

Judith Resnik

Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School

Professor Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches courses on federalism, procedure, courts, prisons, equality, and citizenship. 
 

 

 

 

 

Daniel Rodriguez

Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern Law School 

Professor Daniel Rodriguez is the Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern Law School and served as dean of the law school from 2012 to 2018. His principal academic work focuses on administrative law, local government law, statutory interpretation, federal and state constitutional law, and the law-business technology interface. 
 

 

 

 

 

Kate Shaw 

Professor of Law at Penn Carey Law at the University of Pennsylvania

Professor Kate Shaw is a professor at Penn Carey Law at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on executive power, the Supreme Court, the law of democracy, and reproductive rights and justice.  
 

 

 

 

 

Robert Williams

Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the Rutgers University School of Law

Professor Robert F. Williams is the Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the Rutgers University School of Law. He is an expert in state constitutional law and the director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers.