Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Lauter is the Los Angeles Times’ Washington bureau chief. He began writing news in Washington in 1981 and since then has covered Congress, the Supreme Court, the White House under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and four U.S. presidential campaigns. He lived in L.A... Read More →

Chemerinsky is the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law. He is the author of ten books, including "Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable... Read More →

Gottlieb, educated at Princeton and Yale Law School, is the author of six books including “Unfit For Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics” (NYU 2016). He is a Distinguished Professor at Albany Law School, a regular commentator for radio, television... Read More →

Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He served as dean of the University of Chicago Law School and as Provost of the University of Chicago, and is one of the nation's leading constitutional scholars. His most recent book, "Sex and... Read More →

Zirin is the author of two books, “Supremely Partisan,” published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2016, and “The Mother Court,” published by ABA Books in 2014. He is host of the critically acclaimed television talk show, “Conversations in the Digital Age,” which airs weekly... Read More →