DAHLIA LITHWICK
Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate, and in that capacity, has been writing their "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns since 1999. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary, among other places. She is host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court. She was Newsweek’s legal columnist from 2008 until 2011.
In 2018, Lithwick received the American Constitution Society’s Progressive Champion Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, Lithwick was the recipient of a Golden Pen Award from the Legal Writing Institute, the Virginia Bar Association’s award for Excellence in Legal Journalism and the 2017 award for Outstanding Journalist in Law from the Burton Foundation for a distinguished career in journalism in law. Lithwick won a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act. She has been twice awarded an Online Journalism Award for her legal commentary. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October, 2018.
Lithwick has held visiting faculty positions at the University of Georgia Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, and the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem.
Ms. Lithwick delivered the annual Constitution Day Lecture at the United States Library of Congress in 2012 and 2011. She has been a featured speaker on the main stage at the Chautauqua Institution. She speaks frequently on the subjects of criminal justice reform, reproductive freedom and religion in the courts. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has called her “spicy.”
Lithwick was the first online journalist invited to be on the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. She serves on the board of the Jefferson Center for Free Expression.
Ms. Lithwick has testified before Congress about access to justice in the era of the Roberts Court. She has appeared on CNN, ABC, The Colbert Report, the Daily Show and is a frequent guest on The Rachel Maddow Show.
Ms. Lithwick earned her BA in English from Yale University and her JD degree from Stanford University. She is currently working on a new book, Lady Justice, for Penguin Press. She is co-author of Me Versus Everybody (Workman Press, 2006) (with Brandt Goldstein) and of I Will Sing Life (Little, Brown 1992) (with Larry Berger). Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies including Jewish Jocks (2012), What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013), About What was Lost (2006); A Good Quarrel (2009); Going Rogue: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare (2009); and Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary (2008).
KHIZR KHAN
Khizr Khan is a Muslim-American U.S. Gold Star Parent who made headlines in July of 2016 with an electrifying speech at the Democratic National Convention. He described the death of his son, a U.S. Army Captain, in Iraq and called attention to the diverse backgrounds and cultures represented at Arlington Cemetery.
Mr. Khan is a lawyer and constitutional rights advocate and a patriotic Muslim American born in Pakistan. He attended Punjab University and University Law School, was licensed to practice law in 1974, including before the Supreme Court of the United States. He moved to the United Arab Emirates and later to the U.S., where he attended Harvard Law School and received his LL.M degree in 1986. Mr. Khan is licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C., New York and Federal District Courts, and the Southern and Western Districts of New York. He is a member of the American Bar Association, D.C. Bar Association, and New York State Bar Association, and specializes in Commercial Civil Litigation Electronic Discovery, Veterans, Women and Children Rights, and Health Privacy Law Compliance.
He is the author of two books, published by Random House: An American Family - Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice and This is Our Constitution - for Middle School Students. Proceeds from the sales of both books are allocated for a need-based scholarship at the University of Virginia - the Captain Humayun Khan Memorial Scholarship.
With Ghazala Khan he is a proud parent of three sons, including late U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, and four grandchildren. The family resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.
