ABOUT THE AUTHORS

LAURENCE TRIBE has taught constitutional law at Harvard Law School for four decades and written widely about the law—including the most frequently cited treatise on the U.S. Constitution. He has argued dozens of cases at the Supreme Court, including the first argument in Bush v. Gore.

JOSHUA MATZ, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a former contributor to SCOTUSblog, is a clerk for a federal judge in Los Angeles. He will serve as a law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy from July 2014 to July 2015.

Together, Tribe and Matz taught an acclaimed course at Harvard College about the Supreme Court and the Constitution. Tribe lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Matz lives in Los Angeles, California.