Dan Spokojny is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. His dissertation focuses on the effect of expertise within the institutions of U.S. foreign policy on international outcomes. Prior to coming to Berkeley, Dan served in government for over a decade as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer and a legislative staffer in Congress.
John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies international and constitutional law, focusing on foreign and defense policy with a particular interest in how modern weapons technology could change the rules for armed conflict.
Marika Landau-Wells is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. She studies the effects of cognitive processes on political behavior writ large, investigating the ways in which the psychological and neurological underpinnings of threat perception influence policy preferences, with a particular focus on national security decision-making.
