A visit from Michael Paulsen

 

My students and I got a real treat today.  The visitor in my undergraduate course on constitutional interpretation was the incomparable Michael Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas School of Law.  He is the lead editor of the casebook we are using.  He was in town to visit his son Luke, a sophomore at Princeton.  We opened with a conversation about competing approaches to constitutional interpretation and ideas about the scope and limits of judicial power under the Constitution of the United States.  Then we invited the students into the discussion, broadening the topics to include such issues as the purpose and meaning of various provisions of the 14th Amendment.  Michael was sparkling, as anyone who knows him would have predicted he would be.