Michael W. McConnell
Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Michael W. McConnell, In Defense of Citizens United, 123 Yale Law Journal ___ (forthcoming 2013) (available on SSRN.com at ).
Michael W. McConnell, The Constitution and Same-Sex Marriage, Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2013, p. A15
Michael W. McConnell, What if Robert Bork Had Joined the Supreme Court?, Slate, December 14, 2012.
Michael W. McConnell, Origins of the Fiscal Constitution, in Is U.S. Government Debt Different? Franklin Allen, Anna Gelpern, Charles Mooney & David Skeel, eds., Philadelphia, PA: FIC Press, 2012.
Michael W. McConnell, Reflections on Hosanna-Tabor, (The Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention, 2011), 35 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 821 (2012).
Gillian Metzger, Michael McConnell, Laurence Tribe, Bradley W. Joondeph, Law Blog Expert Panel: Reactions to the Health-Care Ruling, (Law Blog), Wall Street Journal Online, June 29, 2012.
Michael W. McConnell, You Can’t Say That: The Harm in Hate Speech, by Jeremy Waldron, New York Times Sunday Book Review, June 24, 2012.
Michael W. McConnell, Citizens United and the Wisconsin Vote, Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2012, p. A11.
Michael W. McConnell, Ruling the Future, Slate, June 11, 2012.
Nathan S. Chapman, Michael W. McConnell, Due Process as Separation of Powers, 121 Yale Law Journal 1672 (2012).
Michael W. McConnell, Hatch Is a Loyal Advocate for Religious Liberty, Deseret Morning News, May 27, 2012.
Michael W. McConnell, The Liberal Legal Meltdown Over ObamaCare, Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2011, p. A13.
Michael W. McConnell, The Anchor of Our Republic, in, The Constitution: The Essential User's Guide, New York: Time Books, 2012
Michael W. McConnell, O’s Ugly ‘Warning’ - Bizarre Shot at Supreme Court, New York Post, April 4, 2012.
Michael W. McConnell, What Would Hamilton Do?, 35 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 259 (2012).
Michael W. McConnell, Schism, Plague, and Last Rites in the French Quarter: The Strange Story Behind the Supreme Court's First Free Exercise Case, in First Amendment Stories, Richard W. Garnett, Andrew Koppelman, editors, New York: Foundation Press, 2012.
Michael McConnell, The OLC Opinion on Recess Appointments, Advancing a Free Society, January 12, 2012.
Michael McConnell, Democrats and Executive Overreach, Wall Street Journal, January 10, 2012, p. A13.
Michael W. McConnell, Falling Short of Our Ideals, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, December 22, 2011.
Michael W. McConnell, Is Religion Special?, Deseret Morning News, November 20, 2011.

mcconnell@law.stanford.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BA Michigan State University 1976
JD Order of the Coif University of Chicago Law School 1979

Expertise:

Constitutional History
Constitutional Law
Religion and Law
The Supreme Court