Elizabeth Price Foley and David Rivkin

Law Professor; Senior Advisor, FDD

Elizabeth Price Foley is a Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law, a public law school in Miami, where she teaches constitutional law and health care law. Foley was a law clerk to the Honorable Carolyn King of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and spent several years on Capitol Hill as a health policy advisor and lobbyist. She is now a recovering liberal who believes passionately in defending the original meaning of the Constitution. She is the author of Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality (Yale 2006); The Law of Life &amp; Death (Harvard 2011); and The Tea Party: Three Principles (Cambridge 2012). Her website can be found at: http://www.elizabethpricefoley.com<br /> <br /> David B. Rivkin, Jr., is a partner in the Washington office of Baker Hostetler LLP, and Co-Chairs the Firm’s Appellate and Major Motions practice. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He specializes in litigation and regulatory work, with a particular emphasis on constitutional, international law and public policy issues. Mr. Rivkin has been involved in numerous high-profile cases. He is the lead counsel in the Section 1983 Civil Rights Action case brought against several Wisconsin state government officials, alleged who have initiated a sprawling John Doe investigation directed solely at conservative and right-of-center policy advocacy groups in the State. As part of BakerHostetler’s role as court-appointed counsel to the Securities Investor Protection Act Trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, David is responsible for the appellate litigation in more than half a dozen Second Circuit and Supreme Court cases. David is also a lead lawyer on a team that represents a former London-based JP Morgan managing director whose cooperation was sought in the investigation related to a multibillion-dollar trading loss for the bank. He has represented the 26 States that have challenged the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and was the lead outside counsel in the District Court and Court of Appeals.