Darby Dickerson joined Southwestern Law School as President and Dean, and as a Professor of Law, in July 2021. Before joining Southwestern, she served as Dean at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, The John Marshall Law School, Texas Tech University School of Law, and Stetson University College of Law.

Dickerson served as President of the Association of American Law Schools during 2020 and is currently the organization's delegate to the American Bar Association’s House of Representatives.

She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a Sustaining Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, a Past President and current Board Member of Scribes—The American Society of Legal Writers, and a former Director of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. She is active in the American Inns of Court. She is the current President of the Southwestern Law School Inn of Court and has been part of five different Inns across the country.

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L. Song Richardson is an award-winning educator, legal scholar, and lawyer who is recognized for her transformational leadership in higher education. She became Colorado College’s 14th president in July 2021. She earned her AB from Harvard College and her JD from Yale Law School.

Her vision for Colorado College is to prepare students to create a more just world by igniting their passions and potential, and encouraging them to reach across difference to find common ground and understanding.

President Richardson prioritizes expanding access and opportunities for students; welcoming different viewpoints and fostering courageous conversations; building thriving campus, alumni, and local communities; and elevating the profile of the college and its students. The college also will build on its bold and courageous history, which includes creating the Block Plan, becoming the 8^th higher education institution in North America to reach carbon neutrality, and being the first to adopt an antiracism commitment.

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Before becoming a Magistrate Judge, Judge Jean P. Rosenbluth was the Director of Legal Writing and Advocacy and a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.  She was also an academic contributor to the eighth edition of Black’s Law Dictionary and was a member of the Association of Legal Writing Directors’ Survey Committee and the Legal Writing Institute. Before joining the faculty at USC, she served as Assistant U.S. Attorney, Senior Litigation Counsel, and Acting Co-Chief of the Criminal Appeals Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. She also clerked for the Honorable Ferdinand F. Fernandez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the late Honorable Alicemarie H. Stotler of the District Court for the Central District of California, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. As a professor Rosenbluth regularly served as a legal expert for the media on criminal-law issues and high-profile trials; before that she was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Daily Variety, and Billboard, covering the music industry.

Judge Rosenbluth received her A.B. degree from Barnard College in 1983 and her J.D. in 1993 from the USC Gould School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Southern California Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif.

Jessica Levinson’s work focuses on constitutional law, the law of the political process, including election law and governance issues, and the Supreme Court.

Professor Levinson is a legal contributor for CBS News, a columnist for MSNBC, and has a weekly legal segment on NPR member station KCRW. She regularly appears as a legal and political expert on television, radio, podcasts, online outlets, and in print.

Professor Levinson is the founding director of Loyola Law School's Public Service Institute, which is dedicated to creating the next generation of leaders in government service. She is also the director of Loyola Law School’s Journalist Law School.

Professor Levinson served as the President of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission. She was appointed by the Los Angeles City Controller in 2013 to serve a five-year term.

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Jonah E. Perlin teaches legal practice and advanced legal writing at Georgetown Law. Before coming to the Law Center in 2018, Professor Perlin started his law career as a judicial law clerk to Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He then worked as a litigator for several years at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C. where he specialized in complex civil litigation in the United States and abroad. While at Williams & Connolly he also taught advanced legal writing at the Law Center as an Adjunct Professor.

Professor Perlin’s scholarship focuses on legal ethics, legal communication, the technology of law, and professional identity formation. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the peer-reviewed journal Legal Communication & Rhetoric and the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. In addition to his scholarship, Professor Perlin is the creator and host of the How I Lawyer Podcast where he interviews lawyers from across the profession about what they do, why they do it, and how they do it well. The more than 100 interviews of How I Lawyer have already been downloaded more than 175,000 times. The podcast is listened to by law students and lawyers across the country and has been used in the classroom at a number of law schools.

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Tiffany D. Atkins is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenburg College of Law, where she teaches Civil Procedure, Family Law, and Race and the Law. She was formerly a professor at Elon University School of Law, teaching first-year and upper-level legal writing courses. Prior to teaching, Professor Atkins was a staff attorney with Legal Aid of North Carolina, where she litigated family law, public housing law, unemployment, and educational justice cases.

As a scholar, Professor Atkins writes about—and is interested in—how law, culture, and systems impact the ability of Black people, and other people of color, to exist freely and fully in society. Her first full-length article, #FORTHECULTURE: Generation Z and the Future of Legal Education, which was published in the Michigan Journal of Race and Law, examined this within the context of law school classrooms; her latest article, These Brutal Indignities: Making the Case for Crimes Against Humanity in Black America, published in the Kentucky Law Journal, looks at the structure of domestic and international law, recognizing them as barriers to the full protection of Black human rights.

Professor Atkins has also completed a two-year Legal Method and Communication Fellowship at Elon in 2018 and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest Law School in 2019.