Paul Brest Hall
555 Salvatierra Walk
Stanford, CA 94305

4:30pm – 5:30pm Lecture
5:30pm – 6:30pm Reception

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Please join us for Stanford University’s annual Constitution Day Lecture, which commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution by the delegates to the Philadelphia Convention on September 17, 1787.  Michael Stoke Paulsen and Luke Paulsen will be presenting on All This Has Happened Before: The Supreme Court’s 2015 “Landmark” Cases in Historical Perspective. 

Confirmed Speakers:

Michael Paulsen received his B.A. degree with distinction from Northwestern University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received an M.A. degree in Religion from Yale Divinity School and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and a recipient of the Harlan Fiske Stone Prize for appellate advocacy. After graduation from law school, he joined the Department of Justice in the Criminal Division Honors Program, and has also served as staff counsel for the Center for Law & Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C. and as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel. Prior to coming to the University of St. Thomas School of Law, Paulsen served as the McKnight Presidential Professor of Law and Public Policy, Briggs and Morgan Professor of Law, and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship at the University of Minnesota Law School. Professor Paulsen is among the nation’s leading scholars of constitutional interpretation, and his publications include articles in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Chicago Law Review, NYU Law Review, Texas Law Review, California Law Review, and the Georgetown Law Journal, among many others.

Luke Paulsen is a graduate of Princeton University, where he majored in Computer Science with minors in Classics and Humanities. He is the co-author, with his father Michael Stokes Paulsen, of The Constitution: An Introduction (2015). Luke currently works as a software engineer in Mountain View, California.