David Luban is Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University Law Center and Department of Philosophy. His primary affiliation is with the Law Center, with a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy. Born in Milwaukee, he was educated at the University of Chicago and Yale, from which he received the Ph.D. in philosophy in 1974. After teaching at Yale for one year and Kent State University for four, he joined the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland in 1979, to conduct the Institute's project on legal ethics. At the same time he began teaching legal ethics at the University of Maryland School of Law, where he eventually became Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law. He has held visiting appointments in the philosophy departments of Dartmouth College and the University of Melbourne, as well
as Harvard Law School and Yale Law School. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.

Since Patrick Byrne launched Overstock.com® in 1999, he and his company have garnered attention from numerous national media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Fortune, CBS Marketwatch, and Business Week, among others, and is a frequent guest on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and Fox shows (such as Cavuto and Kudlow & Cramer). In 2002, Byrne was named to Business Week's list of the 25 most influential people in e-Business: the magazine cited survival strength and vision as qualities that qualified Byrne for the list. In 2003 Ernst & Young awarded Byrne an "Entrepreneur of the Year" award in the category of Lifetime Achievement. Patrick Byrne received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College (Asian Studies & Philosophy), a master's degree in philosophy from
Cambridge University as a Marshall scholar, and a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University.