Dr Michael Klarman is the Kirkland and Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School and received his PhD in legal history from the University of Oxford where he was a Marshall Scholar Dr Klarman is the author of numerous books on constitutional law and history In this episode he discusses his book The Framers Coup Building a United States which was one of seven finalists for the 2017 George Washington Prize Dr Klarman spoke at a Ford Evening Book Talk on April 11 2017