Anthony Michael Kreis

Anthony Michael Kreis is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia and a visiting scholar-in-residence at Emory Law School where he specializes in sexual orientation, public policy, and the law. In 2011, he earned his law degree from Washington & Lee.

While taking up visiting student status at the University of Virginia during his law school tenure, he studied under the direction of civil rights leader Julian Bond and simultaneously began to actively engage in sexual orientation policy issues.  Since 2010, he’s worked under a national cohort of law faculty on religious liberty issues in proposed same-sex marriage legislation and is currently authoring a series of law review articles and a full length book on the topic.

Kreis has lectured at a number of universities on marriage equality including Emory, Virginia, North Carolina, Wake Forest, and Washington & Lee.  His academic work has been featured in a variety of publications including the online companion of the Yale Law Journal, the Journal of Law & Inequality, and SCOTUSblog.

He currently serves as a political co-chair for the Human Rights Campaign in Atlanta, Georgia and lobbies the Georgia State Legislature on civil rights issues.  Anthony also blogs for the Huffington Post on LGBT rights issues.

Anthony Michael Kreis is the co-author, along with Robin Fretwell Wilson, of The Overlooked Benefit of Minimalism: Perry v. Brown and the Future of Marriage Equality.

Laurence H. Tribe

Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard, has taught at its Law School since 1968 and was voted the best professor by the graduating class of 2000.  A much sought-after appellate advocate as well as a distinguished academic, Tribe has prevailed in three-fifths of the many appellate cases he has argued (including 35 in the U.S. Supreme Court).

The title “University Professor,” which Tribe has held since 2004, is Harvard’s highest academic honor, awarded to just a handful of professors at any given time and to fewer than 70 professors in all of Harvard University’s history.

Tribe was appointed in 2010 by President Obama and Attorney General Holder to serve as the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice; currently serves as a Member of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships; and has written 115 books and articles, including his treatise, American Constitutional Law, cited more than any other legal text since 1950.  Former Solicitor General Erwin Griswold wrote: “[N]o book, and no lawyer not on the [Supreme] Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American constitutional law,” and the Northwestern Law Review opined that no-one else “in American history has… simultaneously achieved Tribe’s preeminence… as a practitioner and… scholar of constitutional law.”

Born in China to Russian Jewish parents, Tribe entered Harvard at 16; graduated summa cum laude in Mathematics (1962) and magna cum laude in Law (1966); clerked for the California and U.S. Supreme Courts(1966-68); received tenure at 30; was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at 38 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2010; helped write the constitutions of South Africa, the Czech Republic, and the Marshall Islands; and has received ten honorary degrees, most recently a degree honoris causa from the Government of Mexico in March 2011 that was never before awarded to an American.

Professor Tribe is the co-author, along with Joshua Matz, of An Ephemeral Moment: Minimalism, Equality, and Federalism in the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage Rights.

Robin Wilson

Robin Fretwell Wilson is the Class of 1958 Law Alumni Professor of Law at Washington andLee University School of Law, where her scholarship focuses on family law and children and violence.  She is the co-author or editor of six recent books, including Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, with Douglas Laycock and Anthony Picarello); Reconceiving the Family:  Critical Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (Cambridge University Press, 2006); and Domestic Relations: Cases and Materials (Walter Wadlington, Raymond C. O’Brien, & Robin Fretwell Wilson, 7th ed., Foundation Press, 2013) (forthcoming).  Professor Wilson’s work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal.  A member of the American Law Institute, Professor Wilson has worked extensively on behalf of state law reform efforts. In 2007, she received the Citizen’s Legislative Award for her work on changing Virginia’s consent law.  Professor Wilson is the past Chair of the Section on Family and Juvenile Law of the Association of American Law Schools.

Robin Fretwell Wilson is the co-author, along with Anthony Michael Kreis, of The Overlooked Benefit of Minimalism: Perry v. Brown and the Future of Marriage Equality.

Erwin Chemerinsky

Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean, Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.   Prior to accepting this position in 2008, Dean Chemerinsky was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 2004-2008.  Before that he was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School for 21 years, including as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science.   He is author of seven books and over 200 law review articles.  He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.

Professor Chemerinsky is the author of Hollingsworth v. Perry: What Should the Court Do?.