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.
Welcome & Luncheon Debate: Resolved: Employment Division v. Smith Should be Overruled
23rd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Webinar & Live StreamThe American Judicial System
Stanford Student Chapter
Stanford Law School559 Nathan Abbott Way
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Twelfth Annual Rosenkranz Debate & Luncheon
2019 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Showcase Panel III: Does Originalism Protect Unenumerated Rights?
2019 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
2019 National Lawyers Convention
Originalism
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
McConnell v. Barnett | Retained by the People
The FedSoc Films Podcast
In this episode of the FedSoc Films Podcast, esteemed law professors Michael W. McConnell (Stanford...
Welcome & Luncheon Debate: Resolved: Employment Division v. Smith Should be Overruled
23rd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Welcome12:00 pm - 12:15pm Hon. Lee Liberman Otis, The Federalist Society Luncheon Debate: Resolved: Employment...
Panel III: Originalist Theories of Constitutional Interpretation [Archive Collection]
1987 National Student Symposium
On April 3-5, 1987, the Federalist Society's Chicago Student Chapter hosted the sixth annual National...
Panel III: Originalist Theories of Constitutional Interpretation [Archive Collection]
1987 National Student Symposium
On April 3-5, 1987, the Federalist Society's Chicago Student Chapter hosted the sixth annual National...
Retained by the People: The Ninth Amendment
Short video featuring Laurence Tribe, Randy Barnett, and Michael McConnell
It has been called a dead letter, an inkblot, the most important amendment in the...

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...