Nina J. Crimm is Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law in New York. She clerked for Judge Irene F. Scott, U.S. Tax Court, and later became Attorney-Advisor/Senior Attorney in the Office of the Chief Judge of the U.S. Tax Court. She practiced tax and nonprofit law with a Washington, D.C. law firm before entering academia. She was recipient of a research grant from the American Tax Policy Institute and an ATAX Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She is "The Quarterly Commentator" for the Exempt Organization Tax Review and is the author of numerous articles and books involving taxation and First Amendment issues related to nonprofit organizations and philanthropy.
Laurence H. Winer is Professor of Law and Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science, & Innovation at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. After graduating from Yale Law School, Professor Winer practiced with a Boston law firm before joining A.S.U. Prior to law school, he taught mathematics at Boston University where he earned his Ph.D. degree in 1973. Professor Winer is the Faculty Editor of Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, a peer-reviewed journal published by the College of Law and the American Bar Association's Section of Science & Technology Law. He also is a member of the First Amendment Advisory Council of The Media Institute in Washington, D.C.