Adrian Vermeule Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School

Adrian Vermeule (Harvard College B.A. 1990, Harvard Law School J.D. 1993) is the Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. Before coming to the Law School, he was the Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is the author or co-author of ten books, most recently Common Good Constitutionalism (Polity Books 2022). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.

J.H.H. Weiler, Professor, N.Y.U. Law School

JHH Weiler is University Professor at NYU School of Law and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Center for European Studies. He is Co-Editor in Chief of EJIL – the European Journal of International Law and ICON – the International Journal of Constitutional Law. He is currently working on a book entitled Reconsidering the Trial of Jesus – A Reading for Our Times.  See Professor Weiler’s Oral Pleading defending the presence of crucifixes in Italian classrooms in Lautsi v. Italy before the European Court of Human Rights. See Professor Weiler’s lecture “The Secret Life of Bees”.

Robert P. George McCormick — Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

Robert P. George has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the President’s Council on Bioethics. He was a Judicial Fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, he holds the degrees of JD and MTS from Harvard University and the degrees of DPhil, BCL, DCL, and DLitt from Oxford University, in addition to twenty-two honorary doctorates. He is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Freedom, and Princeton University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

George Weigel (virtual) —Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds EPPC’s William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.

George Weigel is perhaps best known for his widely translated and internationally acclaimed two-volume biography of Pope St. John Paul II: the New York Times bestseller, Witness to Hope (1999), and its sequel, The End and the Beginning (2010). In 2017, Weigel published a memoir of the experiences that led to his work as a papal biographer: Lessons in Hope — My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II.

George Weigel is the author or editor of more than thirty other books, many of which have been translated into other languages. His essays, op-ed columns, and reviews appear regularly in major opinion journals and newspapers across the United States. A frequent guest on television and radio, he is also Senior Vatican Analyst for NBC News. Mr. Weigel is the recipient of nineteen honorary doctorates, including one in law from Ave Maria School of Law, and has been awarded the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.

Joan Lewis, EWTN Rome Bureau Chief (emerita)

Joan Lewis has an extensive journalism career, specializing in the Vatican. In 1990, she  was invited to work for the then newly-created Vatican Information Service in the Holy See Press Office as the English language writer and editor. While working for the Holy See, she was a member of Holy See delegations to four United Nations conferences. Joan Lewis was appointed Rome Bureau Chief for EWTN in the fall of 2005, and is now a Special Contributor. “Joan’s Rome” is the name of her daily blog and a series of videos. She hosts a weekend radio show called “Vatican Insider” and appears every Monday on EWTN’s TV show, “At Home with Jim and Joy.”