Christopher H. Schroeder is Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies, Director of the Program in Public Law and Co-chair of the Center for the Study of Congress. His areas of research and scholarship include environmental and administrative law, democratic theory, legislative institutions and separation of powers. He has written on the philosophical foundations of risk regulation and liability, the regulation of toxic substances, the performance of American environmental policy, and on a variety of topics in public law and theory. He co-authors a leading environmental law casebook, Environmental Regulation: Law, Science and Policy (3rd Edition, 2000), published by Aspen Publishing. The updates for this casebook are maintained on a web site. He is the editor of a forthcoming Resources for the Future book evaluating the performance of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Schroeder has served as Acting Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, where he was responsible for legal advice to the Attorney General, the Executive Office of the President and other executive branch agencies on a broad range of issues, including separation of powers, other constitutional issues and matters of statutory interpretation and administrative law. He has also served as Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

He received his B.A. degree from Princeton University in 1968, a M. Div. from Yale University in 1971, and his J.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 1974, where he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review. He is married to Katharine T. Bartlett, the dean of Duke Law School. They have three children: Emily, 24; Ted, 22; and Lily, 15.

Erwin Chemerinsky is the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law School. He graduated with a B.S. from Northwestern University (with highest distinction), and in 1978 earned his J.S., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He teaches Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Legal Profession, and Procedure.

He has written four books: Constitutional Law; Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies; Federal Jurisdiction; Interpreting the Constitution, and many law review articles. Professor Chemerinsky frequently lectures to judges in programs for the Federal Judicial Center, the American Bar Association, and many states. Professor Chemerinsky often briefs and argues cases in the United States Court of Appeals, including two recent cases in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found unconstitutional the application of California's three-strikes law to individuals who had been convicted of shoplifting and received life sentences. Prior to joining the USC Law School faculty in 1983, he participated in the U.S. Attorney General's Program for Honor Law Graduates, worked at a public interest law office in Washington, D.C., and taught at DePaul College of Law.

Text taken from the Duke Law School Faculty Profiles webpage