Gerard V. Bradley is a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School and a noted scholar in the fields of constitutional law as well as law and religion. Previously, he taught at the  University of Illinois. Admitted to the New York Bar, he practiced law as an assistant district attorney with the New York County District Attorney's Office. With John Finnis, he has served as director of the Natural Law Institute  at the University of Notre Dame and as co-editor of the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He is president of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, vice-president of the American Public Philosophy Institute, member of the board of advisors of the Cardinal Newman Society, chair of the Federalist Society's Religious Liberties Practice Group, and a member of the Ramsey Colloquium of the Institute on Religion and Public Life. He earned his BA from Cornell University and his JD from the Cornell Law School.

John M. Finnis is a chaired professor in law and legal philosophy at Oxford University, and the Biolchini Chair in Law at Notre Dame University, where he is also an adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He has served as associate in law at the University of California at Berkeley, as Professor of Law at the University of Malawi (Africa), and as the Huber Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the Boston College Law School. He is admitted to the English Bar (Grays Inn). Professor Finnis's service has included the Linacre Centre for Health Care Ethics, the Catholic Bishops Joint Committee on Bioethical Issues, the International Theological Commission, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and the Pontifical Academy Pro Vita. Professor Finnis has published widely in law, legal theory, moral and political philosophy, moral theology, and the history of the late Elizabethan era. His magisterial work Natural Law and Natural Rights was published by Oxford University Press in its Clarendon Law Series, under the general editorship of H. L. A. Hart, in 1980. He earned his LLB from Adelaide University (Australia) and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned his DPhil.