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Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute
B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies; Director- Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute
Roger Pilon is the founder and director of Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies, which has become an important force in the national debate over constitutional interpretation  and judicial philosophy. He is the publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review and is an adjunct professor of government at Georgetown University through The Fund for American Studies. Prior to joining Cato, Pilon held five senior posts in the Reagan administration, including at State and Justice, and was a National Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. In 1989 the Bicentennial Commission presented him with its Benjamin Franklin Award for excellence in writing on the U.S. Constitution. In 2001 Columbia University's School of General Studies awarded him its Alumni Medal of Distinction. Pilon lectures and debates at universities and law schools across the country and testifies often before Congress. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Legal Times, National Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Stanford Law & Policy Review, and elsewhere. He has appeared on ABC's Nightline, CBS's 60 Minutes II, Fox News Channel, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and other media. Pilon holds a B.A. from Columbia University, an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from the George Washington University School of Law.
Kurt Rotthoff is an Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business, which is located in South Orange, NJ (20 kilometers from New York City). His research interests include financial economics, industrial organization, the application of economics and finance to the sports industry, and the economics of education. Dr.  Rotthoff teaches Principles of Economics, Money & Banking, Sport Finance, and a seminar on Economics & Liberty to undergraduate students. He also teaches Principles of Economics, Principles of Finance, and Sports Finance to MBA students. He holds a B.S. from Westminster College (PA), and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Clemson University (SC). He has papers in Applied Economics Letters, Applied Financial Economics, Economic Affairs, Economics Letters, Economics of Education Review, International Journal of Sports Finance, International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, Journal of Economics and Finance, Journal of Sports Economics, and Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. Dr. Rotthoff has been involved with AIPES both as a Teaching Assistant and as a Faculty Member since 2007. He also presented on the economic panel at the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner’s Banking Symposium in December 2010.
Sam Potolicchio- AIPES/IIPES Faculty Member
Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
Sam Potolicchio is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown University where he teaches American Politics and Public Affairs and Research Methods for the Semester in Washington Program. At Georgetown, Potolicchio has taught courses on Presidential Rhetoric, Religion and Politics, Constitutional Law, and the United States Political System. He is a decorated teacher, winning three "Teacher of the Year" awards at Georgetown and the K. Patricia Cross Award from the American Association of Colleges and Universities as one of the future leaders of American higher education. He is the lecturer on American Federalism for the Open World Leadership program at the Library of Congress, where he speaks weekly to visiting dignitaries from the post-Soviet republics. Potolicchio's book chapters on Religion and Politics have been published in volumes by Congressional Quarterly Press and Oxford University Press. He has delivered keynote lectures internationally at 23 different universities in the Czech Republic, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Moldova, Georgia and Bulgaria.
In addition to his doctoral work at Georgetown, Potolicchio holds a B.A. from Georgetown University in Government and in Psychology, an M.A. from Georgetown University in Government, and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University. During his teaching career, Potolicchio has taught at every age-level of the educational system as an elementary school Latin teacher, a middle school basketball coach in Washington DC (6 undefeated championship seasons), and a history teacher in the Boston public schools. He also currently serves as Assistant Director of Admissions at Landon School.
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