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Laurence H. Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard. He has received eleven honorary degrees, and has prevailed in three-fifths of the many appellate cases he has argued (including 35 in the U.S. Supreme Court).
Professor Tribe was appointed in 2021 by President Joseph R. Biden to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. His treatise, American Constitutional Law, has been cited more than any other legal text in the last 75 years.
Erwin Griswold, the late U.S. Solicitor General and longtime dean of Harvard Law School, 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 former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge J. Michael Luttig tweeted in January 2023, “Laurence H. Tribe has been the Nation’s preeminent constitutional scholar for the past half century.”
Bob Shrum is the Director of the Center for the Political Future and the Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics at USC Dornsife. A legendary political Democratic strategist, he was once described as “the most sought-after consultant in the Democratic Party,” by The Atlantic Monthly. He was a speechwriter for Senator George McGovern in the 1972 presidential campaign and for Senator Edward Kennedy in the 1980 presidential campaign. He served as the Senator’s Press Secretary in the early 1980s and as a political consultant and strategist in his subsequent Senate campaigns. He was also the strategist in over 25 other winning U.S. Senate campaigns, eight successful campaigns for governor, successful campaigns for mayors in major American cities, and numerous campaigns for Congress and other statewide offices. His clients included Joe Biden, John Glenn, Barbara Mikulski, David Dinkins, and Tom Bradley – and John Kerry and Al Gore in their presidential races. Overseas his clients included Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the British Labour Party, the Prime Minister of Ireland, and the Presidents of Colombia and Bolivia.