Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Center on Ethics at Stanford University . She is the former president of the Association of American Law Schools, the former chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, and the former director of Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She also served as senior counsel to the Minority members of the Judiciary Committee, the United States House of Representatives, on presidential impeachment issues during the Clinton administration. She is the second most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics and the National Law Journal has profiled her as one of the country ' s fifty most influential women lawyers. She has received the American Bar Association's Michael Franck award for contributions to the field of professional responsibility; the American Bar Foundation ' s W. M. Keck Foundation Award for distinguished scholarship on legal ethics, and the American Bar Association ' s Pro Bono Publico Award for her work on expanding public service opportunities in law schools.

Professor Rhode graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Yale College and received her legal training from Yale Law School . After clerking for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, she joined the Stanford faculty. She writes primarily in the area of legal ethics and gender equity. She is currently a columnist for the National Law Journal and Vice Chair of the Board of Legal Momentum (formerly the NOW Legal Defense Fund). She has also served as a trustee of Yale University and member of the board of Equal Rights Advocates.

She is the author or coauthor of nineteen books and over 150 articles. Her publications include Moral Leadership (Jossey Bass, 2006); Gender and Law (with Katharine T. Bartlett, Aspen, 2006) Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice ( Stanford University Press, 2005) ; Brown at Fifty: The Unfinished Legacy (American Bar Association, 2004) (ed. with Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.); Access to Justice (Oxford University Press, 2004); Legal Ethics (Foundation Press, 4 th ed. 2004) (with David Luban); The Difference Difference Makes: Women and Leadership (Stanford University Press, 2003); Professional Responsibility and Regulation (with Geoffrey Hazard, Jr., Foundation Press 2002); In the Interests of Justice (Oxford University Press, 2000); Ethics in Practice (Oxford University Press, 2000); Professional Responsibility: Ethics by the Pervasive Method (Aspen, 1998); Speaking of Sex (Harvard University Press, 1997); Sex Discrimination and the Law (with Barbara Babcock, et al., Aspen, 1996); Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference (Yale University Press, 1990); and Justice and Gender (Harvard University Press, 1989). She is married to Ralph Cavanagh, an environmental public interest lawyer.

Noa Ronkin received her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies in 2003 from Oxford University and her BA and MA in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include a range of issues associated with Theravada Buddhist philosophy and psychology, and comparative Western and Indian philosophy. She is the author of Early Buddhist Metaphysics: The Making of a Philosophical Tradition (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), a monograph that accounts for the major doctrinal development in the history of Theravada Buddhism in India from the Sutta literature to the systematic thought of the Abhidhamma movement. Before joining the Center on Ethics, Noa was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Stanford's Introduction to the Humanities Program and a lecturer at the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies.

As Associate Director, Noa is responsible for oversight of the Center's administrative operations, including program development, planning, finance and staff.