Akiva Shapiro is a litigation partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s New York office, Chair of the Firm’s New York Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Group, and Co-Chair of its Religious Liberty Working Group. Akiva’s practice focuses on a broad range of high-stakes constitutional, administrative, commercial, and appellate litigation matters. He is a two-time Columbia University alumnus (undergraduate and law school) and a 2023 recipient of AAJLJ's Pursuit of Justice Award.

Joshua Mitts is the David J. Greenwald Professor of Law at Columbia University, where he has taught since 2017. Professor Mitts serves as faculty advisor to the Law Students Against Antisemitism student group at Columbia Law School, the only student group in recent history to be initially denied funding and recognition by the Columbia Law School Student Senate.  In March, he hosted a forum at Columbia on "Israel as a Law-Abiding, Liberal Democracy in Wartime" with former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Danziger, former Israeli Attorney General Mandelblit and other dignitaries in the Israeli legal community.