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Jean Bethke Elshtain

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, is author, most recently, of Sovereignty: God, State, and Self.

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Eamonn Callan

Eamonn Callan is Pigott Family Professor of Education at Stanford University.

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Rogers M. Smith

Rogers M. Smith is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Linda Bosniak

Linda Bosniak, Professor of Law at Rutgers University Law School, is author of The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership.

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Rainer Bauböck

Rainer Bauböck holds a chair in social and political theory at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute.

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Gerald L. Neuman

Gerald L. Neuman is J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School. He is author of Strangers to the Constitution and coauthor with Louis Henkin et al. of Human Rights.

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Douglas S. Massey

Douglas S. Massey is Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and coauthor of American Apartheid and Miracles on the Border.

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Gara LaMarche

Gara LaMarche is President of The Atlantic Philanthropies and former Associate Director of Human Rights Watch.

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Carol M. Swain

Carol M. Swain, Professor of Political Science and Law and Director of Public Policy Studies at Vanderbilt University, is editor of Debating Immigration. Her Web site is carolmswain.com.

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Arash Abizadeh

Arash Abizadeh is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University.

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Peter H. Schuck

Peter H. Schuck, Simon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale University, is co-editor of Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation and author of Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics.

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Mae M. Ngai

Mae M. Ngai is Professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University and author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.

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T. Alexander Aleinikoff

T. Alexander Aleinikoff is University Professor at The New School for Social Research, where he also serves as Executive Dean. He was United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees from 2010 to 2015.

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Joseph H. Carens

Joseph H. Carens is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and author of The Ethics of Immigration.

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Mike McGovern

Mike McGovern is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. His forthcoming book is Making War in Cóte d’Ivoire.

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Edward Miguel

Edward Miguel, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, is author of Africa’s Turn? and coauthor with Raymond Fisman of Economic Gangsters.

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Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson is Director of Financial Reform at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.

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Larry Diamond

Larry Diamond is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.

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William Easterly

William Easterly, Professor of Economics at New York University, is Co-Director of the Development Research Institute and author of The White Man’s Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good.

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Sarah Binder

Sarah Binder, Professor of Politcal Science at George Washington University and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, is, most recently, coauthor of Advice and Dissent: The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary.

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Stephen D. Krasner

Stephen D. Krasner, Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations at Stanford University, is Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and the Hoover Institution and author of Power, the State, and Sovereignty: Essays on International Relations.

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Paul Collier

Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at Oxford University and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, is author of Wars, Guns, and Votes and The Bottom Billion.

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Emily Thorson

Emily Thorson is a PhD student in the Annenberg School for Communication and in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Richard Johnston

Richard Johnston is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. From 2006 to 2009, he was Research Director of the National Annenberg Election Study and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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