Elections 2024: The Supreme Court and Threats to Democracy

Aziz Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Huq is a scholar of US and comparative constitutional law. His recent work concerns democratic backsliding and the regulation of AI. His award-winning scholarship is published in several books and in leading law, social science, and political science journals. He also writes for Politico, the Washington Post, the New York Times.

Farah Peterson is Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Peterson is a legal historian who focuses on the early American republic. Her scholarship on statutory interpretation and constitutional law has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and elsewhere. Peterson is also an essayist, and her works were selected as Notable Essays in the Best American Essays in 2018 and 2022, and she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 2021.

Patricia Williams is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law Emerita at Columbia Law School. Williams practiced as deputy city attorney for the Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney and as staff lawyer for the Western Center on Law and Poverty. She is published widely in the areas of race, gender, and law, and on other issues of legal theory and legal writing. Her books include The Alchemy of Race and Rights; The Rooster’s Egg (Harvard University Press, 1992); and Seeing a ColorBlind Future: The Paradox of Race (Macmillan Publishers, 1997). Williams has also been a columnist for The Nation.

Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Professor of Anthropology, Faculty Director of the Pozen Center for Human Rights, and a fellow at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) at the University of Chicago. He works on the global political economy of the life sciences and biomedicine, with an empirical focus on India, South Africa, and the United States. He is the author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life (2006) and Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (2017), and editor of Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets (2012). He is currently embarked on a research project that studies the intersections between health, law, and constitutionalism in South Africa, provisionally titled “Just Health?: Law, Constitutionalism, and Postcolonial Disease.”