About the Author

Matthew A. Pauley is associate professor of political science and director of legal studies at Manhattanville College, USA. A summa cum laude graduate of Williams College, he holds both a PhD and a JD from Harvard. Pauley is the author of Criminal Law: Its Nature and Sources and I Do Solemnly Swear: The President’s Constitutional Oath—Its Meaning and Importance in the History of Oaths.