Stephen M. Krason is Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies and Director of the Political Science Program at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned his B.A. at LaSalle College (now LaSalle University) (1976), J.D. (1980) and Ph.D. (in political science, 1983) at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He also earned an M.A. in theology-religious education from Gannon University (1986). He is admitted to the bars of Massachusetts, Nebraska, the District of Columbia, and certain federal courts including the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1999, he co-authored an amicus curiae brief in Troxel v. Granville, one of the major parental rights cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years. He is also the co-founder and President (since 1992) of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, and (since 1996) Publisher of its scholarly journal, The Catholic Social Science Review. He also edits the "Public and Church Affairs" section of the latter journal. He also is Vice President for Education and Research and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Solidarity and Human Rights Institute. He has authored Abortion: Politics, Morality, and the Constitution (1984); Liberalism, Conservatism, and Catholicism: An Evaluation of Contemporary American Political Ideologies in Light of Catholic Social Teaching (1991; rev. edn. 1994); Preserving a Good Political Order and a Democratic Republic: Reflections from Philosophy, Great Thinkers, Popes, and America's Founding Era (1998); and The Public Order and the Sacred Order: Reflections on Contemporary Socio-Political Problems and Prospects, in Light of Catholic Social Teaching, Philosophy, and the Western and American Traditions (2003) (which is an anthology of his main scholarly writings), and edited or co-edited Parental Rights:The Contemporary Assault on Traditional Liberties (1988); The Recovery of American Education: Reclaiming a Vision (1993); Catholic Makers of America: Biographical Sketches of Catholic Statesmen and Political Thinkers in America's First Century, 1776-1876 (1993, reprint 2006), We Hold These Truths and More: Further Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition (1993); Defending the Family: A Sourcebook (1998). He is also one of four co-editors of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (2007). In 2006, he also published a monograph in the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institutes White Paper Series entitled, The International Pro-Abortion Rights Litigation Strategy: An Anti-Democratic Secret Plan to Force Legalized Abortion on the Worlds Governments. He is also a contributor to both American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia (2006) and the online version of The New Catholic Encyclopedia (2nd edn.)

Michael J. New is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Dartmouth College, Dr. New received a masters degree in statistics and a doctorate in political science from Stanford University in 2002. Before coming to Alabama, Dr. New worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-MIT Data Center. Dr. New's broad research interests include the impact of constitutional design on policy outcomes. Specific policy areas he has researched include budget rules and fiscal limits, pro-life legislation, and campaign finance reform. His academic writings have appeared ins uch journals as the Catholic Social Science Review and theJournal of Insurance Law. He has published policy studies through such think tanks as the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute.Dr. New has alsohad articles andeditorials appear in a number of publications including Investor's BusinessDaily,The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Weekly Standard, National Review, National Review Online, and the New York Post. Dr. Newhas presented his research at forums sponsored the Family Research Council and the Cato Institute. He consistently gives presentations at the annual convention of the National Right to Life Committee. Dr. New has also givenopen lectures at a number of colleges and universities including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, the College of the Holy Cross, the University of Alabama Law School, Louisiana State University, and The George Washington University.

Jack Nowlin is Associate Professor of Law, and the Jessie D. Puckett, Jr., Lecturer in Law, The University of Mississippi School of law. Professor Nowlin received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Politics from Princeton University; a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law; and a B.A. in English from Angelo State University. Dr. Nowlin joined the Mississippi law faculty in the summer of 2000 after a year as a visiting professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville. At Princeton University, Dr. Nowlin was an Alpheus T. Mason Fellow in Public Law and a lecturer in Constitutional Interpretation. He also received an Earhart Foundation grant for graduate studies in political science and was selected for a Salvatori Fellowship by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. At the University of Texas School of Law, was a Townes-Rice Scholar and an articles editor of the Texas International Law Journal. He was also selected for membership in the Chancellors Honor Society and is a member of Order of the Coif. His book chapters have appeared in That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution (Princeton University Press, 2004) and Liberalism at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Contemporary Liberal Political Theory and Its Critics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2nd Edition, 2003). Dr. Nowlin's articles and other works have appeared in the Illinois Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Connecticut Law Review, the Kentucky Law Journal, Vera Lex, the Law and Politics Book Review, Engage, Touchstone, and the World and I. Professor Nowlin's major research interests concern judicial power, constitutional structure, interpretive theory, and human life issues. He teaches in the areas of constitutional law, jurisprudence, criminal procedure, and criminal law.