The 2025 Regent Law Review Symposium will be held on Friday, September 19, from 10:00AM to 4:30PM.

Speaker Biographies

CHRISTIANITY, THE FAMILY, AND EDUCATION IN AMERICA: 1620-2025

Mark David Hall

Mark David Hall is a Professor in Regent University’s Robertson School of Government, Director of Religious Liberty in the States, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy.  He is also Distinguished Scholar of Christianity & Public Life at George Fox University, a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, and a Senior Fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. 

Mark earned a BA in political science from Wheaton College (IL) and a PhD in Government from the University of Virginia. Mark has written, edited, or co-edited a fifteen books, including Who’s Afraid of Christian Nationalism?: Why Christian Nationalism is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Church; Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land: How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Americans (Fidelis Publishing, 2023); Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth (Nelson Books, 2019); Great Christian Jurists in American History (Cambridge University Press, 2019); America and the Just War Tradition: A History of U.S. Conflicts(University of Notre Dame Press, 2019); Faith and the Founders of the American Republic (Oxford University Press, 2014); Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic  (Oxford University Press, 2013); America’s Forgotten Founders (ISI Books, 2011); The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009); The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding (Liberty Fund Press, 2009); The Founders on God and Government (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742-1798 (University of Missouri Press, 1997).

SUPREME COURT ROUNDUP

Jason Muehlhoff

Jason Muehlhoff is the Chief Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Florida, where he manages the civil appellate docket for the office. He regularly drafts and files appellate briefs at all levels of the federal and state court. 

Before this, Jason was an appellate associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He previously served as a law clerk for the Honorable Lawrence VanDyke of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Jason graduated with Honors from Harvard Law School in 2021. While in law school, he served as the Articles Chair of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and was a research assistant for the Harvard Law School Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors from Biola University in 2016, where he studied Political Science and Theology.

Joseph Kohm III

Joseph Kohm III, Esq. serves as Vice President of Public Policy at Family Policy Alliance and Family Policy Alliance Foundation. In this role, he leads FPA’s policy strategy, providing legal and legislative expertise to elected representatives working to enact laws that protect women’s safety and opportunities, vulnerable children and families, parental rights, and born and unborn children. He has worked extensively on FPA’s Help Not Harm, After Roe, Save Girls Sports, and Let Parents Parent campaigns to facilitate the enactment of numerous laws achieving these and other pro-family policy objectives.

Joseph has testified in many state government hearings and spoken at various events on these and other social issues. He works closely with FPA's network of more than 40 state Family Policy Councils (FPCs) to advance pro-family policy around the United States and the world. He also regularly hosts the House to Home podcast for FPAF to inform and educate thousands of listeners and viewers on family policy news.
Joseph is a U.S. Army veteran of the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), where he served as an officer in First Brigade Combat Team. His previous legal experiences are in military justice investigations within the armed forces as well as anti-human trafficking efforts, both in foreign and domestic jurisdictions.

Joseph is licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C. and the state of New York. He earned his Juris Doctorate from Regent University School of Law and holds a B.A. in English Literature from Virginia Military Institute, Class of 2014.

Christian Edmonds

Christian Edmonds is an assistant professor of law and director of Regent’s Robertson Center for Constitutional Law. He holds a J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Oklahoma Baptist University.

Before joining the Law School’s faculty, Professor Edmonds served as an assistant solicitor general in the state of Nebraska, where he argued before both state and federal courts concerning various constitutional issues. He previously clerked for the Hon. L. Steven Grasz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the Hon. Thomas R. Lee of the Utah Supreme Court.

Professor Edmonds's writing interests mainly concern conflict of laws (in particular, the enforcement of judgments and choice of law); federal jurisdiction; and religious liberty. His scholarly works have appeared or are forthcoming in outlets such as the George Washington Law Review, Illinois Law Review, and the Texas Review of Law and Politics.

Professor Edmonds and his wife, Laura, have three young children, Charlie, Elle, and Addie. He is an ordained Baptist minister and loves history, crime novels, and all things fantasy football.

SEX DIFFERENCE, EQUALITY, AND THE LAW: PAST AND PRESENT BATTLES

Erika Bachiochi

Erika Bachiochi is Professor of Practice at the School for Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses in the history of political thought, directs the Mercy Otis Warren Initiative for Women in Civic Life and Thought, and serves as editor-in-chief of its online journal, Fairer Disputations. She is also a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington DC and a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, MA, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School not long ago. 

Her latest book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, was published by Notre Dame University Press in 2021, and was named a finalist for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s 2022 Conservative Book of the Year award. [you can keep or omit -- Ms. Bachiochi’s essays have appeared in publications such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, Christian Bioethics, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Politico, First Things, American Compass, CNN.com, The New Digest, National Review Online, National Affairs, Claremont Review of Books, SCOTUSblog, and Public Discourse. She is the co-founder of a thriving Catholic classical school in Massachusetts and mother of seven children, ages 23 to 7.

Suzanne Beecher

Suzanne Beecher serves as legal counsel for the Center for Conscience Initiatives at Alliance Defending Freedom.

Prior to joining ADF, Beecher was the director of student programs at the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America, where she coordinated programs relating to human rights, Catholic social teaching, and civic engagement.

Beecher has also served as a civil rights analyst for the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division within the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Her responsibilities included engaging with stakeholders to analyze their discrimination claims, providing training to students in the medical field on legal protections for conscience and religion, and drafting responses to comments on proposed rules.

Before serving at HHS, Beecher was associate counsel at First Liberty Institute. In this position, she represented the organization at religious liberty meetings and events, performed legal research and writing, and assisted in preparing educational materials on the legal status of religious liberty in different arenas.

Beecher received a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Notre Dame Law School and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University. She is a member of the California and District of Columbia bars.

Inez Stepman

Inez Feltscher Stepman is a senior policy and legal analyst for Independent Women’s Forum and Independent Women’s Law Center.

She has over a decade of experience in education policy, and also handles issues related to institutional capture and the definition of sex in law and culture. 

She is a Lincoln Fellow with the Claremont Institute and a senior contributor to The Federalist. Her work has additionally appeared in outlets such as USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Post, and she has made appearances on Fox News, PBS, CSPAN, and NPR.

Inez has a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego, and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.

THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY IN THE CONSTITUTION

Jeremy Christiansen

Jeremy M. Christiansen is an associate professor of law at Regent University Law School. He holds a J.D., summa cum laude, from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, and a B.A., summa cum laude, from Southern Utah University.

Prior to joining the Regent faculty, Professor Christiansen was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he practiced in the appellate and constitutional law, litigation, administrative law, and intellectual property practice groups. He represented a wide array of clients in numerous industries in high-stakes trials and appeals in state and federal courts nationwide, including in multiple merits cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. Before entering private practice, he clerked for the Honorable Jay S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Thomas R. Lee of the Utah Supreme Court.

Professor Christiansen’s scholarship focuses on the Classical Legal Tradition and its application to contemporary legal problems in both public and private law. He has had scholarly works published in the George Washington University Law Review, Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, and the Hawaii Law Review, and his articles have been cited and relied upon by numerous state appellate courts and judges. He is a co-managing editor of, and contributor to, The New Digest, the leading online publication dedicated to the revival of the Classical Legal Tradition.

He and his wife, Carly, have eight children. He enjoys thinking about the Roman Empire, playing guitar, weight training, and lazing about the beach.

Benjamin Bull

Benjamin W. Bull serves as General Counsel of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. He leads the NCOSE Law Center fighting child sexual abuse, illegal pornography, sex trafficking, and other forms of sexual abuse and exploitation.

A noted constitutional lawyer and former prosecutor, Mr. Bull has had great success preventing the spread of illegal pornography, winning more than 14 jury trials against pornographers without a loss. He has also won numerous obscenity and child pornography appellate cases, including at the Supreme Court.

Mr. Bull has trained prosecutors at the U.S. Department of Justice, and numerous state attorneys general and prosecutorial organizations. He has lectured to over two dozen state bar associations, and also testified before Congress as well as many state legislatures. He is widely published and has co-authored two books that serve as teaching manuals on winning obscenity cases and stopping the urban blight of sexually oriented businesses.

Mr. Bull formerly served as Chief Counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom where he launched and built its litigation and advocacy components, hiring and leading more than 60 attorneys as well as opening and supervising its offices in Washington, D.C, New York City, London, Brussels, Geneva, Vienna, New Delhi, and around the world.

He was the founder and Executive Director of ADF International, a leading global human rights organization.

Mr. Bull also served as founding Executive Director of the European Center for Law and Justice in Strasbourg, France, where he practiced human rights law, and has held leadership positions at several other well-respected legal organizations.

He is the recipient of the prestigious William Bentley Ball Award, from the Christian Legal Society, for outstanding contribution to religious freedom.

Mr. Bull lives in Maine and Arizona and is married to Lynda Griffin Bull, a psychotherapist. They have three children and seven grandchildren.

Andrew Koppelman

Andrew Koppelman is John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science, and Philosophy Department Affiliated Faculty at Northwestern University.  The argument of his 1988 law student note, that discrimination against gay people is illegal sex discrimination, was adopted by the Supreme Court in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020).  He received the Walder Award for Research Excellence from Northwestern, the Hart-Dworkin award in legal philosophy from the Association of American Law Schools, and the Edward S. Corwin Prize from the American Political Science Association. 

He has written more than 150 scholarly articles and eight books, most recently Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed (St. Martin’s Press, 2022).  His column appears regularly at The Hill.  You can find his recent work at andrewkoppelman.com.

Nadine Strossen

Nadine Strossen, New York Law School Professor Emerita and Senior Fellow at FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), was national President of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008. An internationally acclaimed free speech scholar and advocate, who regularly addresses diverse audiences and provides media commentary around the world, Strossen is the Host and Project Consultant for Free To Speak, a 3-hour documentary film series distributed on public television in 2023.

Her most recent books are: The War On Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail (coauthored with FIRE President Greg Lukianoff); Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2023); HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018); and Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights (1995), which was republished with a new Preface in 2024 as part of the NYU Classics Series.

In 2023, Strossen received the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Free Speech. She serves on the Advisory Boards of several free speech/academic freedom organizations, including: ACLU, Academic Freedom Alliance, Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR), Heterodox Academy, National Coalition Against Censorship, and Voices for Liberty Initiative.

KEYNOTE REMARKS

Benjamin Bull is our keynote speaker as well.