Symposium Authors

David Gray Adler the Cecil D. Andrus Professor of Public Affairs at Boise State University, where he serves as director of the Andrus Center for Public Policy. He is the author of numerous works on the Constitution and presidential power and has written extensively on the constitutional governance of war and foreign affairs. He can be reached at davidadler@boisestate.edu.

Jasmine Farrier is an associate professor in the department of political science at the University of Louisville. Her research focuses on congressional delegation of power in budgeting and foreign policy. Her publications include Passing the Buck: Congress, the Budget, and Deficits (Kentucky, 2004) and Congressional Ambivalence: The Political Burdens of Constitutional Authority (Kentucky, 2010). Farrier's current book project is on separation of powers jurisprudence, the political question doctrine, and federal lawsuits involving members of Congress. She can be reached at j.farrier@louisville.edu.

Louis Fisher worked for Congress for four decades from 1970 to 2010, first as senior specialist in Separation of Powers at Congressional Research Service and later as specialist in Constitutional Law with the Law Library. Author of 20 books and more than 450 articles, he has testified 51 times before congressional committees on a range of constitutional issues. On retirement in August 2010, he joined the Constitution Project as Scholar in Residence. He had been active with the Project for the previous 10 years in such areas as war powers and the state secrets privilege. Many of his articles, books, and congressional testimony are available at his webpage: http://loufisher.org. He can be reached at lfisher11@verizon.net.

Nancy Kassop is a professor in the department of political science and international relations at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her research is on the presidency and law. Her most recent articles are “President Obama and Counterterrorism Policy: When Campaign Promises Meet Governing Imperatives,” co-authored with Steven Goldzwig, in Julia Azari, Lara Brown and Zim Nwokora, eds., The Presidential Leadership Dilemma: Between the Constitution and a Political Party (Albany: SUNY Press, 2013) and “Rivals for Influence on Counterterrorism Policy: White House Staff vs. Executive Branch Legal Advisors” in Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 43, No. 2 (June 2013)). She is a book review editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly. She can be reached at: kassopn@newpaltz.edu.

Walter J. Oleszek is a senior specialist in American national government at the Congressional Research Service. He is an adjunct professor of political science at American University and a frequent lecturer on political affairs. Oleszek is the author of several books, including Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process, Ninth Edition (CQ Press, 2014). He is also co-author of Congress and its Members, 14th Edition (CQ Press, 2014), with Roger H. Davidson, Frances E. Lee, and Eric Schickler. He can be reached at woleszek@crs.loc.gov.

Bruce Peabody is a professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. He has published research on the separation of powers, judicial independence, commentary about courts by members of Congress, and public opinion polling on constitutional issues. Peabody's recent work includes The Politics of Judicial Independence (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) and contributions to SCOTUSblog, The Huffington Post, and The Hill's Congress Blog. He is currently writing a book about different generational conceptions of heroism. He can be reached at bpeabody@fdu.edu.

Mitchel A. Sollenberger is an associate professor of political science in the department of social sciences at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. He previously worked with Louis Fisher at the Congressional Research Service as an analyst in American National Government. He is the author of several books that include The President Shall Nominate: How Congress Trumps Executive Power (University Press of Kansas, 2008), Judicial Appointments and Democratic Controls (Carolina Academic Press, 2011), and the co-author of The President's Czars: Undermining Congress and the Constitution (University Press of Kansas, 2012) with Mark J. Rozell. He can be reached at msollenb@umich.edu.

Robert J. Spitzer is distinguished service professor and chair of the political science department at SUNY Cortland. The author of 14 books, including Saving the Constitution from Lawyers (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and The Politics of Gun Control (5th ed., 2012, Paradigm), his research interests include the American presidency and gun policy. His recent research has appeared in Presidential Studies Quarterly and various law reviews. He is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. He can be reached at robert.spitzer@cortland.edu.