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Michael W. McConnell

Prof. Michael W. McConnell

Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, Director of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law School

Michael W. McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2002 to the summer of 2009, he served as a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. McConnell has held chaired professorships at the University of Chicago and the University of Utah, and visiting professorships at Harvard and NYU. He has published widely in the fields of constitutional law and theory, especially church and state, equal protection, and the founding. In the past decade, his work has been cited in opinions of the Supreme Court second most often of any legal scholar. He is co-editor of three books: Religion and the Law, Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought, and The Constitution of the United States. McConnell has argued fifteen cases in the Supreme Court. He served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. and is Of Counsel to the appellate practice of Kirkland & Ellis.

2019 National Lawyers Convention
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2019 National Lawyers Convention

Originalism

The Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Speakers:
G. Barry Anderson • John S. Baker • Jack M. Balkin • Stephanie H. Barclay • Randy E. Barnett • William P. Barr • Evan D. Bernick • Josh Blackman • Adam Candeub • Michael A. Carvin • Ronald A. Cass • Eric R. Claeys • Paul D. Clement • Alexander J.S. Colvin • William S. Consovoy • Harmeet K. Dhillon • Michael C. Dorf • John C. Eastman • Jennifer Walker Elrod • Kurt Damian Engelhardt • Richard A. Epstein • William N. Eskridge • Mark C. Fleming • Deborah A. Garza • Eric Goldman • Luke Goodrich • Neil M. Gorsuch • Jamal Greene • Tara Leigh Grove • Deepak Gupta • Christopher Hajec • Philip A. Hamburger • Mauricio R. Hernandez • Kristin E. Hickman • Ryan T. Holte • Brett M. Kavanaugh • F. Scott Kieff • Gene Kimmelman • Neil J. Kinkopf • Donald Kohn • Richard J. Lazarus • Renée Lettow Lerner • Jonathan Lowy • Nelson Lund • William P. Marshall • Michael W. McConnell • John O. McGinnis • Thomas W. Merrill • Bernadette Meyler • Thomas D. Morgan • Alan B. Morrison • Christina M. Mulligan • Ryan D. Nelson • Norman J. Ornstein • Michael Stokes Paulsen • James E. Pfander • Richard H. Pildes • Andrew J. Pincus • Alex J. Pollock • Saikrishna B. Prakash • William H. Pryor • David B. Rivkin • Edward L. Rubin • Stephen E. Sachs • David S. Schoenbrod • Jefferson B. Sessions • Ilya Shapiro • Paul Sheard • Kristen Silverberg • Mark W. Smith • Lawrence Solum • Ilya Somin • David R. Stras • Richard E. Sylla • Jonathan E. Taylor • Eugene Volokh • Elizabeth B. Wydra • John C. Yoo • Juan C. Zarate
Topics:
Constitution
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Beyond Trump: Threats to the Presidency
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Beyond Trump: Threats to the Presidency

New York University Student Chapter

New York University School of Law
Lipton Hall, 110 E. 3rd Street
New York, NY 10003
Speakers:
Bob Bauer • Josh Blackman • Samuel Estreicher • Samuel Issacharoff • Jamil N. Jaffer • Michael W. McConnell • Gillian E. Metzger • Trevor Morrison • Michael B. Mukasey • Max Raskin • Adam White
Topics:
Article I Initiative • Separation of Powers • Federalism & Separation of Powers
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The Executive Power: Prerogative Versus Delegated Powers – A King Minus Powers Given to Congress or Subservient to the Legislature?

The Executive Power: Prerogative Versus Delegated Powers – A King Minus Powers Given to Congress or Subservient to the Legislature?

2018 National Student Symposium

Hart Auditorium, Georgetown University Law Center
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Speakers:
Martin Flaherty • Michael W. McConnell • Saikrishna B. Prakash • Amul Thapar • John C. Yoo
Topics:
Constitution • Federalism • Founding Era & History
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Federalism

Federalism

This module in the Structural Constitution course highlights key debates about federalism: at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, throughout our history with...