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Washington Delivering His Inaugural Address, engraved by Henry Sadd, 1849. Gift of Thomas and Sylvia Church, 1994 [Print-4287/RP-631] MVLA

Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Julian Davis Mortenson's research project, The Founders’ President

Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Mortenson is researching presidential power at the American founding.

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Julian Davis Mortenson, the James G. Phillipp Professor of Law at Michigan Law, is a legal historian, constitutional litigator, and award-winning teacher who specializes in the constitutional and political history of early America.

A legal historian who specializes in the legal and political history of early America, he is currently working on a book project that develops a comprehensive account of presidential power at the American founding. 

Mortenson’s constitutional law casebook, Constitutional Law: An Integrated Approach, has already been widely adopted in its first three years of publication; it is now going into a second edition.

He has held visiting appointments on the faculties of the University of Cambridge, KU Leuven, and the University of Tokyo, and teaches constitutional law, presidential powers, administrative law, legislation and regulation, international law, and international commercial arbitration.