F. Scott Kieff is a professor at George Washington Law School and the Ray and Louise Knowles Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he directs the Project on Commercializing Innovation. That project involves the law, economics, business, and politics of innovation, including entrepreneurship, corporate governance, finance, economic development, intellectual property, antitrust, bankruptcy, property rights, contracts, and dispute resolution.

Kieff also serves on Hoover’s Property Rights Task Force and as a faculty member in the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at Germany’s Max Planck Institute; previously he was a professor at the Washington University School of Law in Saint Louis, Missouri, with a secondary appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Neurological Surgery.

Richard Epstein is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at Hoover. He is also the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at The University of Chicago. His areas of expertise include constitutional law, intellectual property, and property rights. His most recent books are The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act (Hoover Press, 2009) and Supreme Neglect: How to Revive the Constitutional Protection for Private Property (Oxford Press, 2008).