saikrishna prakash
viduals that help exercise their federal judicial power, just as the President has a constitutional right to remove officers who help implement federal executive power. Taken together, Prakash’s work displays a knack for analyzing complex constitutional questions in a novel and convincing manner. His primary lens is originalism, and he focuses on the link between early historical practices and modern questions related to the division of governmental power. Prakash’s research often leads to surprising or controversial outcomes. But even those who resist originalist inquiry must contend with the creative and careful reasoning that drives him toward these conclusions. Only in the middle of his career, Prakash has become one of the leading scholars on executive power in the country—still inspired by current events, but now in a position to shape how to interpret them.
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