Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky is a historian of the presidency, political culture, and the government. She produces history that speaks to fellow scholars as well as a larger public audience. Dr. Chervinsky is the author of the award-winning book The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, co-editor of Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture, and the recently published book Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic. She regularly writes for public audiences in The Wall Street Journal, Ms. Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Bulwark, Time Magazine, USA Today, CNN, and the Washington Post. Dr. Chervinsky also is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.

Barbara McQuade is a professor at Michigan Law, where she teaches criminal law and national security law, and is the author of the New York Times best seller Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America. Ms. McQuade served as the US attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan and Vice Chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, where she co-chaired its Terrorism and National Security Subcommittee. As US attorney, she oversaw cases involving public corruption, terrorism, corporate fraud, theft of trade secrets, civil rights, and health care fraud, among others. She also serves as a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Lawfare, Just Security, Slate, and National Public Radio, and she has been quoted in the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Politico, and other publications.

Christopher (Chris) Duggan, founder of the James Otis Lecture Series, is one of the most accomplished trial and appellate lawyers in the United States. He has tried more than 75 cases to jury verdict in federal and state courts throughout Massachusetts and in several other New England states. His clients include publicly traded and privately held companies, insurers and reinsurers, and individuals in complex, large risk litigation across a broad variety of matters, including product liability, premises liability, professional malpractice, aviation, insurance coverage disputes, and other high-profile, media-sensitive matters. An avid historian, Mr. Duggan enjoys representing universities, museums, and collectors in cases involving authenticity and title to works of art and historic artifacts.