Robin Fretwell Wilson is the Director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs (“IGPA”) for the University of Illinois System, of which the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a part, as well the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Professor Wilson is the author and editor of twenty books, including her recent books, International Survey Of Family Law 2022, with the University of Minnesota Professor June Carbone, and Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground, with Yale University Professor William Eskridge, Jr.

Professor Wilson has ranked among the Top Ten Family Law Scholars in the United States for scholarly impact in each ranking done by the Leiter Report since 2010; co-directs the College of Law’s Epstein Health Law & Policy Program and co-directs and founded its Family Law & Policy Program. Professor Wilson also founded and directs the Tolerance Means Dialogues and the Fairness for All Initiative, both which are made possible with private philanthropic support. Professor Wilson chairs IGPA’s Substance Abuse Disorder Working Group s and is a founding member of the genomic security and privacy theme of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She holds appointments with the Carle Illinois College of Medicine and the University of Illinois College of Medicine Urbana-Champaign. A member of the American Law Institute, Professor Wilson has thrice been honored for her work with lawmakers on innovative laws that address thorny questions, such as how to mesh LGBT rights with protections for religious belief and practice. Professor Wilson has led law-reform projects on same-sex marriage and gay rights, resulting in landmark legislation.

In 2022, Professor Wilson assisted Congress in its consideration and passage of P.L. 117-228, the Respect for Marriage Act. Members of the U.S. Senate acknowledged her co-authored analysis of the bill by name in the Congressional Register and she was invited to attend the White House signing ceremony.

Bill Duncan is a member of the Utah Bar and is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court and in the U.S. Court of Appeals, for the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th Circuits. He is the author of dozens of law review articles and teaches a legal course for undergraduates as an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University.