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Professor Ronald J. Rychlak is Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Mississippi School of Law where he has been on the faculty since 1987. He is a graduate of Wabash College (BA, 1980, cum laude) and Vanderbilt University (JD, 1983, Order of the Coif). Prior to joining the faculty, Ron practiced law with Jenner & Block in Chicago, and he served as a clerk to Hon. Harry W. Wellford of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ron is an advisor to the Holy See's delegation to the United Nations and a member of the committee appointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court to revise that state's criminal code. He serves on the editorial boards of The Gaming Law Review and Engage: The Journal of the Federalist Society Practice Groups, and he is a member of the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. He also serves as the university's Faculty Athletic Representative.

Ron is the author or co-author of six other books, including Real and Demonstrative Evidence: Applications and Theory (1995, 2nd ed., 2003), and he has been published in Notre Dame Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Environmental Law (Lewis & Clark Law School), The Stanford Environmental Law Journal, The Fordham Environmental Law Journal, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and several other periodicals and journals. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his wife, Claire, and their six children.

Professor David W. Case is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law where he has been on the faculty since 2007. He is a graduate of the University of Mississippi (B.A., 1985; J.D., 1988, cum laude), Columbia University (LL.M., 1993), and Vanderbilt University (Ph.D., 2004). His Ph.D. is in Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental Law, Management and Policy. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Case was a Bridgestone Americas Fellow in Environmental Management at Vanderbilt University and a Research Associate with the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies (VCEMS). David also previously practiced law with Ott & Purdy in Jackson, Mississippi, served as an attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and served as a clerk to Hon. Rhesa H. Barksdale of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
David has published articles in the Emory Law Journal, the Environmental Law Reporter, the Mississippi College Law Review, the Mississippi Law Journal, the University of Colorado Law Review, the University of Memphis Law Review, the Washington & Lee Law Review, and the William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review, and several other book chapters and essays. He lives in Hernando, Mississippi with his wife, Catherine, and their four children.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Professors Rychlak and Case gratefully acknowledge the invaluable research assistance of Megan Black and Lori Johnson, both third-year law students at the University of Mississippi School of Law, in the preparation of this book.