Regent University School of Law Alumni & Friends Weekend

Peter Breen serves as Executive Vice President and Head of Litigation at Thomas More Society. Over two decades of law practice, Breen has shown himself equally comfortable arguing in a federal courtroom, debating on the floor of a legislature, and explaining complex points of constitutional law in front of a television camera. Throughout, he has been in the thick of some of the nation’s most significant legal and public policy battles. Breen also served two terms in the Illinois House of Representatives, where he rose to become the Republican Floor Leader. He holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame.

Josh Craddock is an affiliated scholar with the James Wilson Institute.  As a practicing lawyer, he successfully petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States for certiorari and prevailed in Vega v. Tekoh and represented major technology clients in groundbreaking Section 230 litigation. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.  He then clerked for the Honorable Chief Judge Timothy Tymkovich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prior to law school, Mr. Craddock managed advocacy teams for several non-profit organizations at the United Nations. His writing has appeared in the Notre Dame Law Review, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Washington Post, Newsweek, and National Review.

Erin Hawley serves as the Senior Counsel and Vice President of the Center for Life and Regulatory Practice at Alliance Defending Freedom. She also serves as an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at Regent University School of Law. She has litigated extensively before the U.S. Supreme Court, as recently as March 2024, in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. 

Hawley received her bachelor’s degree in Animal Science from Texas A&M University and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served on the Yale Law Journal and as a Coker Fellow in Constitutional Law. Following law school, she clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Prior to joining ADF, Hawley practiced appellate law at Kirkland and Ellis LLP, Bancroft LLP, and King & Spalding LLP, all in Washington, D.C. 

As a frequent commentator on legal issues, Hawley’s work has been quoted or featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News, the Washington Examiner, World, the Legal Times, the Federalist, and the Hill, among others. Additionally, she authored a book on motherhood, entitled “Living Beloved: Lessons From My Little Ones About the Heart of God.”

Scott G. Stewart is the Solicitor General of Mississippi. He has litigated and presented oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court, in all regional federal courts of appeals, and in trial-level courts across the country. As Solicitor General of Mississippi, Stewart briefed, argued, and won the U.S. Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Stewart previously served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice and worked in private practice as a litigator. He served as a law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States and to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Stewart graduated from Princeton University and Stanford Law School.

Olivia Summers is Senior Litigation Counsel with the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), focusing on pro-life advocacy and protecting the freedoms of speech and religion. She earned her J.D. from Regent University School of Law. While at Regent, she clerked for the ACLJ and served as a board member for Regent Journal of International Law, was a member of the Honor Council, and was actively involved in Regent Students for Life. In addition, she spent one summer interning at the ECLJ where she gained experience in international law and human rights issues. Prior to attending Regent, she earned her B.A. in History from the University of Wyoming. In addition to her work at the ACLJ, Olivia served as a co-facilitator for a post-abortion healing group for women sponsored by a pregnancy resource center in Washington D.C. She also currently sits on the board of Infinite Worth, a pro-life organization that works to provide 24-hour nurse chat lines to pregnancy resource centers around that country.

Josh Turner currently serves in the Idaho Attorney General’s Executive Office as the Chief of Constitutional Litigation and Policy. In that role, he oversees any litigation in the office that has a constitutional component or challenges an Idaho law. In April 2024, he argued before the United States’ Supreme Court on behalf of Idaho in the case, Idaho v. United States.

After graduating from Liberty University School of Law in 2015, Turner spent a year clerking for Judge Lavenski Smith in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Arkansas before completing a second federal clerkship with Judge Leon Holmes in the Eastern District of Arkansas. He worked in private practice for four years before joining the Idaho Attorney General’s office in March 2023. Turner earned his undergraduate degree in 2012 in political science from the University of Wisconsin. He is a fellow with the James Wilson Institute and is passionate about utilizing natural law reasoning to defend and advance virtuous laws.

Edward Whelan is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) and holds EPPC’s Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies. He is the longest-serving President in EPPC’s history, having held that position from March 2004 through January 2021. As a contributor to National Review Online’s Bench Memos blog, he has been a leading commentator on nominations to the Supreme Court and the lower courts and on issues of constitutional law. He has written essays and op-eds for leading newspapers—including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post—opinion journals, and academic symposia and law reviews. A former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, he is co-editor of three volumes of Justice Scalia’s work: Scalia Speaks, On Faith, and The Essential Scalia.