Franklin Allen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania & Jun "QJ" Qian, Carroll School of Management, Boston College- "Comparing Legal and Alternative Institutions in Commerce"
Yash Ghai, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, "Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Ethnic Diversity"
Thomas Ginsburg, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – "The Lifespan of Written Constitutions"
Terence Halliday, American Bar Foundation – "The Fight for First Generation Rights: A Comparative Essay on the Mobilization of the Legal Complex for Basic Legal Freedoms"
Ron Harris, Tel Aviv University – “Law, Finance and the First Corporations”
Margaret Levi, University of Washington & Brad Epperly, University of Washington - “Principled Principals in the Founding Moments of the Rule of Law”
Robert Nelson, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University & Lee Cabatingan, University of Chicago - "Introductory Essay: New Research on the Rule of Law"
Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - "Rule of Law Temptations"
Barry Weingast, Stanford University – “Why Developing Countries Prove So Resistant to the Rule of Law”
James Heckman, American Bar Foundation and University of Chicago - “The Viability of the Welfare State”
Katharina Pistor, Columbia University, Antara Haldar, Trinity College, University of Cambridge & Amrit Amirapu – “Social Norms, Rule of Law, and Gender Reality”