Richard L. Hasen is the Gary T. Schwartz Endowed Chair in Law, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy), and Director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA School of Law. He is an internationally recognized expert in election law, writing as well in the areas of legislation and statutory interpretation, remedies, and torts. He is co-author of leading casebooks in election law and remedies. Hasen served in 2022 and 2024 as an NBC News/MSNBC Election Law Analyst. He was a CNN Election Law Analyst in 2020. From 2001-2010, he served (with Dan Lowenstein) as founding co-editor of the quarterly peer-reviewed publication, Election Law Journal. He is the author of over 100 articles on election law issues, published in numerous journals including the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Supreme Court Review, and Yale Law Journal. He was elected to The American Law Institute in 2009 and serves as Reporter (with Professor Douglas Laycock) on the ALI’s law reform project: Restatement (Third) of Torts: Remedies. He also is an adviser on the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Concluding Provisions. Professor Hasen holds a B.A. degree (with highest honors) from UC Berkeley, and a J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. (Political Science) from UCLA. After law school, Hasen clerked for the Honorable David R. Thompson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then worked as a civil appellate lawyer at the Encino firm Horvitz and Levy.

Jeremiah Chin is a professor of law at the University of Washington. He teaches Constitutional Law I and II and Race and the Law. His work focuses on the relationship between law and social science through the lens of critical race theory. Chin is the co-author of The School-Prison Trust (University of Minnesota Press 2022) which explores the connection between indigenous boarding schools and the juvenile prison system. He holds a B.U.S. from the University of Utah, and an M.S., J.D., and Ph.D. from Arizona State University.

Robin Maril is an Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University teaching Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Health Law. Prior to entering teaching, Professor Maril served as the associate legal director at the Human Rights Campaign. Professor Maril's work at HRC focused on federal laws and policies impacting LGBTQ people, including the administrative preparation and implementation of U.S. v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges with the Obama White House. Her current scholarship explores the intersection of constitutional law and administrative law with a focus on democracy and LGBTQ equality.

Jim Oleske is a professor at Lewis & Clark Law School. He joined the faculty after serving as Chief of Staff of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs during the first two years of the Obama Administration. Professor Oleske’s research focuses on the intersection of religious liberty and other constitutional values, and he was a Fulbright Scholar based at Cardiff University’s Centre for Law and Religion in 2019. His 2015 article, The Evolution of Accommodation: Comparing the Unequal Treatment of Religious Objections to Interracial and Same-Sex Marriages, was quoted by Justice Sotomayor in her dissent in 303 Creative v. Elenis. He holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.   

Alison Gash (Moderator) is a professor of political science at the University of Oregon. She teaches Her research centers on the intersection of law and social policy. Her most recent book, Democracy’s Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency (Oxford University 2022) focuses on young people as agents of change in America’s democracy. Her work has been featured in Politico, the LA Times, and the Chicago Tribune. Gash holds a B.A. from Vassar College, an MPA-URP from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.  

Panel 2: What We Learned About the State of Judicial Power from the Recently Concluded SCOTUS Term 

Dustin Buehler serves as special counsel to the Attorney General of Oregon. He previously served as general counsel for the governor of Oregon during the term of Kate Brown. He litigated cases in both state and federal courts as an attorney at Oregon’s Department of Justice. Buehler teaches administrative law at the University of Oregon’s Portland program. He was previously a tenured law professor at the University of Arkansas and a law lecturer at the University of Washington. He holds a B.A. from Willamette University and a J.D. from the University of Washington. 

Stuart Chinn is the Frank Nash Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. He writes and teaches about constitutional law, legislation, legal and political history, and American higher education. Stuart received his B.A., Ph.D. (political science) and J.D. degrees from Yale University. 

John Parry is a professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School. Prior to Lewis & Clark, Parry taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of law and was a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He teaches courses on Constitutional Law and civil litigation. His research centers on civil rights law, foreign relations and international law, and criminal justice. Parry is the author of Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity (University of Michigan 2010) which examines the widespread use of torture in modern America. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. 

The Honorable Jack L. Landau (Moderator)  is a Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Willamette University College of Law, where he teaches courses in Legislation and State Constitutional Law.  He also teaches Constitutional Law at Lewis and Clark Law School and in the past has taught as a pro tem instructor at Oregon Law.  He served as an Associate Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court for seven years and as a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals for 18 years.  Before his appointment to the bench, he served in the Oregon Department of Justice, first as Attorney-in-Charge of the department’s Special Litigation Unit and later as the Deputy Attorney General.  He holds a B.A. and J.D. from Lewis and Clark and an Ll.M. from the University of Virginia School of Law. 

Garrett Epps is a Professor of Practice at Oregon Law. He returned to Oregon from the University of Baltimore Law School. Before heading east, Professor Epps taught Constitutional Law at Oregon Law. While at Baltimore, he served for ten years as Supreme Court Correspondent of The Atlantic, publishing more than 400 essays analyzing the Supreme Court’s evolving jurisprudence and constitutional issues. His book To an Unknown God: Religious Freedom on Trial is a comprehensive history of Employment Division v. Smith, the 1990 Oregon “peyote case.” His scholarship has appeared in law journals including Duke Law Journal, North Carolina Law Review, and American University Law Review.  Garrett Epps received his LL.M. and J.D. from Duke University and an M.A. from Hollins College.

Joel Sati is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. Professor Sati's work focuses on the phenomenon of illegalization, which he defines as state practices of criminalization that use immigration enforcement as a tool of social degradation. His scholarship includes publications in the Washington Post, Duke University Press, and the University of California Press. His article "Privacy and the Impossibility of Borders" was published by the UCLA Law Review in 2025. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and his JD from Yale Law School. He lives with his two cats, Bruce and Ricky.  

Christine Zeller-Powell (Moderator) is the director of Catholic Community Services of Lane County’s Refugee and Immigrant Program. She began working at Catholic Community Services of Lane County in 2018. Her work focuses on aiding with refugee resettlement and general immigration legal services. She holds a J.D. from the University of Oregon’s School of Law.