What does the Constitution say?  What tools do we have to discern its meaning?  Americans ask these questions, or variants of them, when they consider fundamental issues of the day. Lawyers, in particular, require methods to address these issues; in law school they are taught to utilize case reading and analysis.

Professor Akhil Amar teaches these foundational lessons to his Yale Law students in his Constitutional Law class.  He always uses as an exemplar “…what many would deem the most central case in our constitutional canon: McCulloch v. Maryland.”

In this seminar, he will teach us the beauty and elegance of McCulloch.  Of this case, he says: “McCulloch commands our attention not merely for what it says but for how it says, featuring a richer mixture of elegant constitutional arguments of various types than its rivals. To read McCulloch is to see (and for many beginning students, to learn) how to do constitutional argument.”

Join Professor Amar and EverScholar for a rare opportunity: a close reading of the masterpiece of perhaps America’s greatest jurist, John Marshall, and become a constitutional lawyer in 90 minutes.