The Trump impeachment episode: Party wars and the Constitution

Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, is an expert in national security law, the law of armed conflict and military ethics. In 2012, Finkelstein founded Penn Law’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), a non-partisan interdisciplinary institute that preserves and promotes the rule of law in modern day national security, U.S. governance and warfare. She is also a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and has briefed Pentagon officials, Special Ops forces, congressional staff and JAG Corps members on various issues in national security law and practice.

Finkelstein is a co-editor (with Jens David Ohlin) of The Oxford Series in Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law, and a volume editor of its four titles thus far. Her prior scholarly work focused on criminal law theory, moral and political philosophy, jurisprudence, and rational choice theory.

Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and other schools.

In addition to his extensive publications, Turley has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades including the representation of whistleblowers, military personnel, judges, and members of Congress. He is a frequent witness before Congress and his testimony includes the confirmation hearings of attorney general nominees Loretta Lynch and William Barr as well as Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. He is one of only two academics to testify at both the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings.

Sidney M. Milkis is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Governance and Foreign Affairs, Cavaliers' Distinguished Teaching Professor, and professor of politics. His research focuses on the American presidency, political parties and elections, social movements, and American political development. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate students, he regularly gives public lectures on American politics and participates in programs for international scholars and high school teachers that probe the deep historical roots of contemporary developments in the United States. His many books include the recently published Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics.