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	Michael Genovese, PhD Loyola Marymount University Chair of Leadership Studies and Director of the Institute for Leadership Studies, Professor of Political Science Areas of Expertise: political leadership and the presidency Office Phone: (310) 338-7379 Email: mgenoves@lmu.edu Genovese has authored 18 books. He is most recently the author of Memo to a New President (2007). He has also co-written Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas of Democracy and authored The Power of the American Presidency.

	Fernando Guerra, PhD Director of The Center for The Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, Associate Professor of Chicano and Chicana Studies and Political Science Areas of Expertise: politics and ethnicity issues in California Office Phone: (310) 338-4565 Email: fguerra@lmu.edu Director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at LMU since 1996, Fernando Guerra has authored numerous publications that focus on politics and ethnicity issues in California including "Latino Politics in California: The Necessary Conditions for Success" and "Minority Electoral Representation Patterns During the Pat Brown Years". He is a frequent radio and television commentator appearing on NPR, Fox News and KCET's California Gold.

	Wayne Le Cheminant, PhD Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University Areas of Expertise: political culture and how ideas and ideology impact political institutions Office Phone: (310) 338-5165 Email: wlecheminant@lmu.edu Le Cheminant is currently working on editing a book called Mormons and Politics: The Lessons of History, Belief, and Practice with Russell Arben Fox and Nathan B. Oman. He has an article forthcoming in the book Leadership and Politics, entitled “Leadership, Cognition, and Political Manipulation.” He is also currently working on a book entitled Human Nature and the Political Imagination: The Crafting of the Polity.

	Evan Gerstmann, PhD, JD Chair of the Political Science Department at Loyola Marymount University Areas of Expertise: constitutional law and judicial politics Office Phone: (310) 338-3004 Email: egerstma@lmu.edu Gerstmann has published two books on constitutional law, The Constitutional Class: Gays, Lesbians and the Failure of Class-Based Equal Protection and Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution as well as articles on subjects ranging from freedom of speech to how criminal law affects victims of domestic violence.

	Laurie Levenson, JD Director of the Center for Ethical Advocacy, Professor of Law at Loyola Law School Office Phone: (213) 736-1149 Email: laurie.levenson@lls.edu Levenson is a former federal prosecutor who lectures on judicial ethics. Levenson serves as Attorney Representative to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Central District of California. She has been published in multiple law and criminal books as well as lending her expertise to scholarly articles.

	Richard Hasen, PhD, JD Loyola Law School William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law Office Phone: (213) 736-1466 Email: rick.hasen@lls.edu Hasen writes the influential Election Law Blog. Hasen has authored The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore (2003) as well as co-authored Election Law: Cases and Materials (2004). He is the author of more than three dozen articles on election law issues. Hasen was named one of the top 100 lawyers in California in 2005.

	Shane Martin, PhD Dean of Loyola Marymount University School of Education Areas of Expertise: School Reform in Culturally Diverse settings, Multicultural Education and Cultural Diversity in Schools Office Phone: (310) 338-7301 Email: smartin@lmu.edu Shane Martin has published two books and contributed work to various journals and other print material. He is a co-chair of the American Anthropological Association. He is a member of the Council on Antrophology and Education and a member of the Presidential Task Force on Racial Bias.

	Richard Fox, PhD Associate Professor of Political Science, Loyola Marymount University Areas of Expertise: women and politics, congressional politics, media and politics Office Phone: (310) 338-2806 Email: richard.fox@lmu.edu Richard Fox teaches and researches in the areas of U.S. Congress, elections, media and politics and gender politics. Most recently he has completed work on a book entitled Tabloid Justice: The Criminal Justice System in the Age of Media Frenzy , 2nd ed.

	Gary Williams, JD Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Office Phone: (213) 736-1090 Email: gary.williams@lls.edu Williams was assistant legal director and president of board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California. He primarily teaches in the areas of First Amendment and civil rights law. His scholarship includes the law review article "Drum Major for Justice: Leading the March Toward Social Justice" and "California's Constitutional Right to Privacy: Can It Protect Private Figures from the Unauthorized Publication of Confidential Medical Information?"

	Brietta Clark, JD Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Office Phone: (213) 736-1494 Email: brietta.clark@lls.edu Clark is a regular commentator for Bioethics Forum. She's vice chair of the Law Section of the LA County Bar Association and was on the Board of Mental Health Advocacy Services as well as on the Institutional Review Board at California Hospital Medical Center. She wrote "Hospital Flight from Minority Communities: How Our Existing Civil Right Framework Fosters Racial Inequality in Healthcare" in the DePaul Journal of Healthcare Law.

	Marcy Strauss, JD Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Office Phone: (213) 736-1077 Email: marcy.strauss@lls.edu Strauss has lectured and written extensively on the legality of the use of torture, including the law review articles "The Lessons of Abu Ghraib” in the Ohio State Law Journal and “Torture” in the New York Law School Law Review. She was a panelist on “Law and Interrogation in War and Peace” at Ohio State Law School. Strauss is also an expert on abortion rights law. She was a member of the Georgetown Law Journal and clerked for the Hon. James B. Moran of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

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