Edward L. Rubin is Distinguished University Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University, specializing in administrative law, constitutional law and legal theory. He is the author of Soul, Self and Society: The New Morality and the Modern State (Oxford, 2015); Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State (Princeton, 2005), and two books with Malcolm Feeley, Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise (Michigan, 2011) and Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons (Cambridge, 1998). He has written two casebooks, The Regulatory State (with Lisa Bressman and Kevin Stack) (3rd ed., 2019); The Payments System (with Robert Cooter) (West, 1990), four edited volumes (one forthcoming: Judicial Policy Making, Empirical Data and Scientific Evidence: Can Courts Manage the Twenty-first Century? (Edward Elgar, 2025)), numerous journal articles and The Heatstroke Line (Sunbury, 2015) a science fiction novel about the fate of the United States if climate change is not brought under control. Rubin served as a consultant to the People's Republic of China on administrative law and to the Russian Federation on payments law.