Ilan Wurman is the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. He is also the author of The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (2020) and A Debt against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism (2017), as well as a leading casebook on administrative law. He splits his time between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and rural Arizona.
‘An impressively sweeping yet accessible interpretation of the Constitution through the lens of originalism, the method that now prevails on the Supreme Court. Wurman powerfully illuminates debates among originalists on how their method applies to crucial questions. He intervenes in those debates with sophistication, wit and scholarly zest.' Nicholas Parrillo, Yale Law School ‘Comprehensive, clear-headed and packed with essential information, The Constitution of 1789 is terrific one-stop shopping to our nation's founding document – and to many of the great issues of the modern era.' Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University, and author, How to Interpret the Constitution ‘This is a marvelous – simultaneously sophisticated and accessible – introduction to the world of structural constitutionalism. It provokes careful thought on virtually every page.' Gary Lawson, University of Florida Levin College of Law, and co-author of ‘A Great Power of Attorney': Understanding the Fiduciary Constitution