Can the president pardon himself?

John C. Harrison is the James Madison Distinguished Professor of Law and the Thomas F. Bergin Teaching Professor of Law at UVA. He joined the faculty after a distinguished career with the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as counselor on international law in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.

Brian Kalt is professor of law and Harold Norris Faculty Scholar at Michigan State University. His research focuses on structural constitutional law and juries. His recent publications include the books Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies and Unable: The Law, Politics, and Limits of Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

Bernadette Meyler is the Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law; professor, by courtesy, of English; and the associate dean for Research and Intellectual Life at Stanford University. She is a scholar of British and American constitutional law and of law and the humanities and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in Constitutional Studies. Her research and teaching bring together the sometimes surprisingly divided fields of legal history and law and literature. They also examine the long history of constitutionalism, reaching back into the English common law ancestry of the U.S. Constitution.

Micah Schwartzman ’05 is director of the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy and the Hardy Cross Dillard Professor of Law at UVA. His research and teaching focus on law and religion, jurisprudence, political philosophy, and constitutional law, Schwartzman joined the school’s faculty in 2007.