Bob Barr

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Bob Barr represented the 7^th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, serving as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and as an eight-year veteran of the Committee on Financial Services.

Bob Barr occupies the 21^st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union, and serves as a Board Member at the Patrick Henry Center. Bob is a Member of the Long-Term Strategy Project for Preserving Security and Democratic Norms in the War on Terrorism, at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; he also serves as the Chairman of Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances. He provides advice to several organizations, including consulting on privacy issues with the ACLU, serving on the Legal Advisory Board for Southeastern Legal Foundation, serving as the Chair for Youth Leadership Training at the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia, and as a member of The Constitution Project’s Initiative on Liberty and Security based at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. Recognizing Bob Barr’s leadership in privacy matters, New York Times columnist William Safire has called him “Mr. Privacy.”

Bob serves as a contributor for CNN and writes a regular column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He also hosts a nationally-syndicated weekly radio show, “Bob Barr’s Laws of the Universe.” Bob is a Contributing Editor for The American Spectator, and his writings have appeared in numerous academic, local, regional, and national publications. Bob is the author of “The Meaning of Is, The Squandered Impeachment And Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton,” published by Stroud & Hall, and available from Amazon.com. Bob also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy.

As President and CEO of Liberty Strategies, LLC, which specializes in partnering with firms, associations, and individuals to broaden governmental relations and solve problems, Bob brings an impressive array of relationships and respected policy advocacy to the table.

Bob was appointed by President Reagan to serve as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia (1986-90), and served as President of Southeastern Legal Foundation (1990-91). He was an official with the CIA (1971-78), and practiced of law for many years. He currently serves Of Counsel with the Law Offices of Edwin Marger, with a national and international practice in both civil and criminal law. He is a board member in the National Rifle Association.

Bob Barr has traveled widely and spoken to audiences across America and internationally, especially in Europe and Latin America, and has served as an official member of the U.S. delegation at two major United Nations conferences. He also speaks to local and national groups on a regular basis and is affiliated with one of the largest agencies specializing in professional speaking engagements, Keppler Associates.

Edwin Meese III

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Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese was among President Ronald Reagan’s most important advisors. As Chairman of the Domestic Policy Council and the National Drug Policy Board, and as a member of the National Security Council, he played a key role in the development and execution of domestic and foreign policy.

During the 1970s, Mr. Meese was Director of the Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management and Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He earlier served as Chief of Staff for then-Governor Reagan and was a local prosecutor in California.

Mr. Meese is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute of United States Studies, University of London. He earned his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Tim Edgar

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Timothy H. Edgar is the National Security Policy Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. He has testified before Congress and executive agencies. He was named the 2003 "Pro Bono Attorney of the Year" by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He was a law clerk for Judge Sandra Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Harvard Law School, where he served on the Harvard Law Review.

Barry Alan Shain

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Dr. Barry Shain is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. His specialties include American political thought (especially that of the Founding periods), Enlightenment political thought, problems of modernity and the theory of classical republicanism and contemporary communalism.

His interests include the history and meanings of the most significant Western political concepts in the early-modern period, the relationship between Protestantism and Catholicism and the rise of individualism and modern political institutions, and natural and international law (with an emphasis on early-modern theorists).

Dr. Shain has been invited to speak at many lectures and conferences across the globe and published a number of books. In 2003, he served as Director of Colgate University’s Geneva-based International Institutions Study Group.

He has directed and served as a discussion leader for Liberty Fund Colloquia on modern political thought and political theology, and serves as referee for many publications including the American Political Science Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Politics, and Perspectives in Political Science.

Dr. Shain’s publications include The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought(Princeton University Press, 1994); and Man, God and Society: An Interpretive History of Individualism (University of London, 2000).

Dr. Shain is the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) "We the People Project" Fellow for the Understanding of American History and Culture, and received the 2000-2001 Colgate IFC/Panhellenic Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award. He also received an award to direct the NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers in 1996-97.

Additional awards and honors include National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 1992; Executive Board of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1991-93; John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow in History 1993; and Richard M. Weaver Fellow 1987-88.

Dr. Shain earned two B.A.s, one from San Jose State University, and one from San Francisco State University. He received his M.A., as well as his Ph.D., from Yale University.