Michael McConnell

Director at the Constitutional Law Center

Professor at Stanford Law School

Michael McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, as well as a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. A leading authority on constitutional history and constitutional law, he is the author of numerous articles and co-author of two casebooks, including “The Constitution of the United States.” McConnell brings wide practical experience to bear on his teaching and scholarship. Before joining Stanford in 2009, he served as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He has argued 14 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, served as assistant to the Solicitor General in the Department of Justice under President Ronald Reagan, and was a member of the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board from 1988 to 1990. He is of counsel to the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.

Debates Featuring Michael McConnell

The President Has Usurped the Constitutional Power of Congress

With Adam Cox, Michael McConnell, Eric Posner, Carrie Severino

June 8, 2016

The Constitution provides that "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States," and it goes on to grant Congress a robust-and fearsome-list of powers. James Madison assumed that "[i]n republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates," and he cautioned that the legislative department may tend to "draw[] all power into its impetuous vortex." But modern politics and law seem to tell a quite different story. With executive orders, administrative regulations, creative interpretations of…

The President Has Usurped the Constitutional Power of Congress

With Adam Cox, Michael McConnell, Eric Posner, Carrie Severino

June 8, 2016

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