Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He has also served as Mellon Professor of the Humanities for the Bard Prison Initiative. He has authored or edited more than one hundred books, including Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Human Execution.
Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought and Chair of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. Professor Douglas is the author of seven books, including The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust and The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial, a New York Times Editor’s Choice. His most recent book is Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Electoral Meltdown in 2020.
Martha M. Umphrey is Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government In the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst, the author of many law review articles, and is the co-editor of the Amherst Series in Law and Jurisprudence.
