Risa Goluboff is the 12th, and the first female, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law. She is a nationally renowned legal historian whose scholarship and teaching focuses on American constitutional and civil rights law, and especially their historical development in the 20th century.

Leslie Kendrick is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs and Director of the Center for the First Amendment. She is an expert in the First Amendment and freedom of expression, particularly the scope and structure of free speech rights. Her scholarship and teaching focus on freedom of speech, torts and property law. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Virginia Law Review, the Supreme Court Review, Legal Theory, and Philosophy & Public Affairs.