The Sweep and Force of Section Three

Professor Michael Stokes Paulsen will present his widely publicized law article "The Sweep and Force of Section Three: The Constitution's Disqualification from Office of Oath-Breaking Insurrectionists," published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Professor Paulsen co-wrote the article with Professor William Baude of the University of Chicago School of Law.

The paper is especially important as our nation seeks to discern the meaning of a long-dormant constitutional provision enacted around the time of the Civil War and its application to the events of January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.