Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, andConstitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where healso holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founder andeditor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor at The New Atlantis, acontributing editor at National Review, and a contributing opinion writer atThe New York Times. At AEI, Dr. Levin and scholars in the Social, Cultural, andConstitutional Studies research division study the foundations of self-governmentand the future of law, regulation, and constitutionalism. They also explore thestate of American social, political, and civic life, focusing on thepreconditions necessary for family, community, and country to flourish. Dr.Levin served as a member of the White House domestic policy staff underPresident George W. Bush.
He was also executive director of the President''sCouncil on Bioethics and a congressional staffer at the member, committee, andleadership levels. In addition to being interviewed frequently on radio andtelevision, Dr. Levin has published essays and articles in numerouspublications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, TheAtlantic, and Commentary. He is the author of several books on political theoryand public policy, most recently "A Time to Build: From Family and Community toCongress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive theAmerican Dream" (Basic Books, 2020). He holds an MA and PhD from the Committeeon Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Adam J. White is a senior fellow at the American EnterpriseInstitute, where he focuses on the Supreme Court and the administrative state.Concurrently, he codirects the Antonin Scalia Law School''s C.
Boyden GrayCenter for the Study of the Administrative State. Mr. White practicedconstitutional and administrative law, particularly in the regulation of energyand financial markets. He started his legal career as a law clerk for JudgeDavid B. Sentelle at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Mr. White haswritten for the Wall Street Journal ,the New York Times , the Washington Post , National Affairs , Commentary , Harvard Journal of Law & PublicPolicy , and Notre Dame Law Review ,among other publications. He is a regular contributor to the Yale Journal on Regulation ''s Notice andComment blog, and for many years, he was one of the Weekly Standard ''s lead writers on constitutional law and theSupreme Court.
Mr. White has testified often before Congress, including beforethe Senate''s Committees on the Judiciary; Commerce, Science, andTransportation; and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and before theHouse''s Judiciary and Financial Services Committees. In 2018, the SenateCommittee on the Judiciary called him to testify in Brett Kavanaugh''s SupremeCourt confirmation hearings to advise senators on Kavanaugh''s approach toadministrative law. In 2021, he served on the Presidential Commission on theSupreme Court of the United States, where he criticized "Court packing" andother efforts to restructure the Supreme Court. In 2017, he was appointed toserve on the Administrative Conference of the United States. He also serves onthe leadership council for the American Bar Association''s Administrative Lawand Regulatory Practice Section, which he will chair in 2023-24. Before joiningAEI, he was a research fellow at Stanford University''s Hoover Institution andan adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Mr.
White has a JD from HarvardLaw School and a bachelor of business administration from the College ofBusiness at the University of Iowa. John Yoo is a nonresident senior fellow at AEI, Emanuel S.Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and avisiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has worked in all three branchesof government, notably as an official in the US Department of Justice, where heworked on national security and terrorism issues after the September 11 attacks.He also served as general counsel of the US Senate Judiciary Committee underits chairman, Orrin Hatch of Utah. And he has been a law clerk for SupremeCourt justice Clarence Thomas and US Court of Appeals judge Laurence Silberman. His new book is Defender in Chief: Donald Trump''s Fight for Presidential Power (St.Martin''s, 2020).
He is also the coauthor of StrikingPower: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War (Encounter 2017), Point of Attack:Preventative War, International Law, and Global Welfare (Oxford UniversityPress, 2014), Taming Globalization:International Law, the U.S. Constitution, and the New World Order (OxfordUniversity Press, 2012), Crisis andCommand: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush (Kaplan Publishing, 2010), War by OtherMeans: An Insider''s Account of the War on Terror (Atlantic Monthly Press,2006), and The Powers of War and Peace:The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 (University of ChicagoPress, 2005).