Biography
Michael McConnell is a former Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and a professor and Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School.
Awards
Josh Blackman holds the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law at South Texas College of Law and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has authored three books, and his latest, An Introduction to Constitutional Law, was a top five bestseller on Amazon. He is a contributing editor to Civitas Outlook.
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