CHRISTINE COUGHLIN, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law

Christine Nero Coughlin is a Professor of at the Wake Forest University School of Law. She also has faculty appointments at the Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine's Translational Science Institute. In addition, she is a core faculty member in the Wake Forest University Center for Bioethics, Health and Society. She is the recipient of the Legal Writing Institute's Mary S. Lawrence Award, the Wake Forest University Teaching and Learning Center's Teaching Innovation Award, the Joseph Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching, and a multi-time recipient of the Graham Award for Excellence in Teaching Legal Research and Writing. Her teaching and scholarship are concentrated in the areas of legal analysis and writing, bioethics, and health care law. She has written over a dozen law review articles and essays, is the co-author of several leading law school textbooks, and frequently pens op-eds and guest blog posts. She is a member of the American Law Institute.

STEVEN FRIEDLAND, Professor of Law and Senior Scholar, Elon University School of Law

Steven Friedland was a founding faculty member at Elon Law School after teaching at several other schools, including the University of Georgia and Georgia State University, as well as Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., where he served as a professor of law for more than a decade. Friedland was elected to the American Law Institute in 2010, named to the board of trustees for the Law School Admissions Council in 2012 and to the Lexis Publishing Company Advisory Board the same year. He has received teaching awards at three different law schools, as well as a "teacher of the year" award for all of NSU. Friedland has co-authored several Constitutional Law, Evidence Law, and Criminal Procedure textbooks, as well as three books on law school teaching. He is a national leader and speaker on law school teaching, and has advised the Japan Legal Foundation about starting law schools in Japan and Afghanistan law professors as part of a U.S. A.I.D. project on law teaching in that country. He was one of twenty-six law teachers included in the Harvard University Press book by Michael Hunter Schwartz and Gerry Hess, What the Best Law Teachers Do.

DAVID LEVINE, Professor of Law, Elon University School of Law

David S. Levine is an Associate Professor of Law at Elon University School of Law and an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School (CIS). Dave was a fellow at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) from 2014-2017. He is also the founder and host of Hearsay Culture on KZSU-FM (Stanford University), an information policy, intellectual property law and technology talk show for which he has recorded over 250 interviews since May 2006. Hearsay Culture was named as a top five podcast in the ABA's Blawg 100 of 2008 and can be found at http://hearsayculture.com. His scholarship, which has been published in several law reviews including Florida, North Carolina and Stanford Online, focuses on the operation of intellectual property law at the intersection of technology and public life, specifically information flows in the lawmaking and regulatory process and intellectual property law's impact on public and private secrecy, transparency and accountability. He has spoken about his work in numerous venues, from the American Political Science Association annual meeting to the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and internationally.