Principles to Guide Electoral Count Act Reform

Bob Bauer is Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU Law, and Co-Director of NYU’s Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic. He served as White House Counsel to President Obama, and returned to private practice in June 2011. In 2013, the President named Bob to be Co-Chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, which in January of 2014 submitted to the President its findings and recommendations in "The American Voting Experience: Report and Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration."

Bob was General Counsel to Obama for America, the President’s campaign organization, in 2008 and 2012. Bob has also served as co-counsel to the New Hampshire State Senate in the trial of Chief Justice David A. Brock (2000) and counsel to the Democratic Leader in the trial of President William Jefferson Clinton (1999).

He is the author on books on campaign finance law and articles on various topics for law reviews and periodicals. He is a contributing editor of Lawfare and writes legal commentary for Just Security, and has published opinion pieces in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and other publications. In 2000, he received the "Burton Award for Legal Achievement" for his legal writing.

Jack Goldsmith is Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. He is the author, most recently, of After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency and In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, A Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth, as well as of other books and articles on many topics related to presidential power, terrorism, national security, international law, and internet law. Before coming to Harvard, Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, from October 2003 through July 2004, and Special Counsel to the General Counsel to the Department of Defense from September 2002 through June 2003. Goldsmith taught at the University of Chicago Law School from 1997-2002, and at the University of Virginia Law School from 1994-1997. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, and a B.A. from Washington & Lee University. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, and Judge George Aldrich on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal.

David F. Levi is the Levi Family Professor of Law and Judicial Studies and director emeritus of the Bolch Judicial Institute. He was the James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke Dean of Duke Law School from 2007-2018. Following his tenure as dean, Levi served as the founding director of the Bolch Judicial Institute from 2018 until 2022. He also served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States in 2021.

In 2023, he was appointed to the Data Protection Review Court (DPRC). The DPRC independently reviews determinations made by the Civil Liberties Protection Officer of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in response to qualifying complaints sent by individuals through appropriate public authorities that allege certain violations of United States law in the conduct of United States signals intelligence activities.

Before becoming the 14th Dean of Duke School of Law in 2007, Levi was the Chief Judge for the Eastern District of California with chambers in Sacramento. Earlier in his career, he was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Levi was then nominated in 1990 to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California by President George H.W. Bush. 

After law school, he clerked with Judge Ben C. Duniway of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then with Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States.

In 2007, Levi was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2010 to 2014, he served on the Equal Justice Works board of directors. In 2014, he was appointed chair of the ABA’s Standing Committee on the American Judicial System, and in 2015, he was named co-chair of the North Carolina Commission on the Administration of Law and Justice. He served as a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States in 2021.

Levi was elected to The American Law Institute in March 1991, serving as an Adviser on the Federal Judicial Code Revision, Principles of the Law, Aggregate Litigation, and Principles of the Law, Student Sexual Misconduct: Procedural Frameworks for Colleges and Universities projects. He was elected to the Council in October 2005 and became ALI's 10th President in May 2017.