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Contributors albert w. alschuler is Professor of Law at Northwestern University and Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He has been a law clerk to Justice Walter V. Schaefer of the Illinois Supreme Court, a special assistant to the assistant attorney general in charge of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Justice Department, and a professor of law at the University of Texas, the University of Colorado, and the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Alschuler has written on many topics including plea bargaining , sentencing reform, civil procedure, jury selection, legal history, legal ethics, William Blackstone, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and American legal theory. matthew myer boulton is Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School. His research interests include public theology, biblical studies, ritual and cultural studies, and the arts. His most recent work is God against Religion: Rethinking Christian Theology through Worship (2007). sarah coakley is the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. A systematic theologian and philosopher of religion, she has wide interdisciplinary interests, including recent research and teaching at the intersection of theology and law. Her published works include Christ without Absolutes: A Study of the Christology of Ernst Troeltsch; Powers and Submissions: Spirituality , Philosophy, and Gender; Religion and the Body (editor); Re-Thinking Gregory of Nyssa (editor); and Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture (co-editor). She is at work on a four-volume systematic theology, the first volume of which will appear as God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay “On the Trinity.” w. clark gilpin is Margaret E. Burton Professor of the History of Christianity and of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Professor Gilpin is a historian of American Christianity whose research and writing have focused on Puritanism and on the relation between religion and education in American culture. He has published a biography of Roger Williams and A Preface to Theology , which examines American theological scholarship in terms of its historic responsibilities to a threefold public in the churches, the academic community, and civil society. kevin jung is Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Wake Forest University Divinity School. He is the coeditor of Humanity before God: Contemporary 273 V4366.indb 273 V4366.indb 273 8/22/07 3:21:55 PM 8/22/07 3:21:55 PM 274 Contributors Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics (2006). Jung works in the areas of moral philosophy and religious and social thought with particular interests in ethical theories and problems. ernie lewis has been Public Advocate for the Commonwealth of Kentucky since 1996. He has been with Department of Public Advocacy since 1977, serving as an appellate lawyer and head of the Department’s trial services efforts. He received the Kentucky Bar Association’s “Lawyer of the Year” award in 2000. Lewis has been a faculty member of the National Criminal Defense College in Macon, Georgia, since 1985 and is a charter board member of the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He has represented capital clients at trial, appeal, and state and federal postconviction. david little is the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict at Harvard Divinity School, and Director of Initiatives in Religion and Public Life. Until 1999, he was senior scholar in religion , ethics, and human rights at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington , D.C. From 1996 to 1998, he was a member of the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. He has written in the areas of moral philosophy, moral theology, history of ethics, and the sociology of religion, with a special interest in comparative ethics, human rights, religious liberty, and ethics and international affairs. lois gehr livezey is Professor of Christian Social Ethics at McCormick Theological Seminary, Emerita. An ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA), she served on the Committee on Social Witness Policy Task Force on “Why and How the Church Makes Social Policy and Social Witness.” She has published several articles and book reviews focusing on the church’s response in the areas of family ethics, feminist ethics, and sexual and family violence. marc mauer is the Executive Director of the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit organization engaged in research and advocacy on criminal justice policy. Mr. Mauer has written extensively and testified before Congress and other legislative bodies. His critically acclaimed book Race to Incarcerate was named...