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Christopher Brooks is a Professor of History at East Stroudsburg University Education: B.A., 1994, East Stroudsburg University | M.A., 1998, East Stroudsburg University | M.Litt. (studies), 2001, University of Edinburgh | Dr. phil., 2006, University of Kassel

Prof. Brooks’ current research projects include the history of early African-American attorneys, free speech, and utility of a history degree in corporate professions.

Michael R. Dimino is Professor of Law at Widener University Commonwealth Law School, where he teaches courses related to constitutional law, election law, federal courts, statutory interpretation, and criminal law. Professor Dimino graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1998 with degrees in political science and history. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and from which he graduated cum laude in 2001. Professor Dimino served as Chief Clerk to Associate Judge Albert M. Rosenblatt of the New York State Court of Appeals, and then clerked for Senior Circuit Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Judge Paul L. Friedman of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. A two-time recipient of Widener’s Douglas E. Ray Award for Faculty Scholarship and a Fulbright scholar, Professor Dimino has written extensively on constitutional law, election law, and judicial behavior, and has co-authored Voting Rights and Election Law (3d ed. forthcoming 2020), The Best Candidate: Presidential Nomination in Polarized Times (forthcoming 2020); Understanding Election Law and Voting Rights (2016), Sports Law: Cases and Materials (2d ed. 2007), and The Mueller Investigation and Beyond (2020).