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8 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
My friend and case-book co-editor Akhil Reed Amar believes that it is “nonsensical” to argue that there was the slightest merit to the Southern argument for secession as presented in 1860-61. [read post]
21 Dec 2022, 6:00 am
In addition to his narrow critique of progressive opponents of originalism, Solum’s post offers a capsule history tracing progressive originalism from Frederick Douglass through Justice Hugo Black to Akhil Amar, Jack Balkin, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 7:46 am
Akhil Amar and a pre-Bruen essay by Prof. [read post]
12 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
Last week’s Supreme Court oral argument in Moore v. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 7:48 am
Progressive constitutional scholars like Akhil Amar and Jack Balkin at Yale, and progressive lawyers like Elizabeth Wydra at the Constitutional Accountability Center, have labored for decades to lay the foundations for a progressive and originalist resistance to a conservative juristocracy. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 6:00 am
Progressive constitutional scholars like Akhil Amar and Jack Balkin at Yale, and progressive lawyers like Elizabeth Wydra at the Constitutional Accountability Center, have labored for decades to lay the foundations for a progressive and originalist resistance to a conservative juristocracy. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 11:28 am
" It featured Judges James Ho (5th Cir.) and Lisa Branch (11th Cir.) in conversation with Professor Akhil Amar of Yale Law School, followed by a wide-ranging discussion with the (standing room only) audience. [read post]
6 Dec 2022, 10:56 am
” As Akhil Amar, Vik Amar and Steve Calabresi explain in their must-read amicus brief in Moore, however, Article I’s Election Clause didn’t originate with the Constitution. [read post]
30 Nov 2022, 11:55 am
Featuring Judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch; Moderated by Akhil Reed Amar. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 9:55 am
Bowie knives are back in constitutional law news these days, after a very long absence. [read post]
14 Nov 2022, 4:00 am
One of the potentially most persuasive of them was filed last month on behalf of Yale Law Professor Akhil Amar, University of Illinois Law School Dean Vikram Amar, and Northwestern Law Professor Steven Calabresi. [read post]
8 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm
Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission), Akhil Amar explored the more general phenomenon of words and phrases that recur in the Constitution. [read post]
30 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
As Amar put it, “‘[e]mpower’ does not mean ‘require;’ rather, it means to create the power to do or not do something” (emphasis in original). [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 5:55 am
As Vikram Amar, Akhil Amar, and Stephen Calabresi (a co-Founder of the Federalist Society) put it in their striking brief: “Miserably. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 4:28 pm
Check out the smack-down, no-holds-barred explanation why ISL isn't a thing, at least by an original understanding, in this amicus brief by none other than Akhil Amar, Vikram Amar, and Steven Calabresi. [read post]
24 Oct 2022, 2:23 pm
Stop what you're doing and read the extraordinary amici curiae brief Akhil Amar, Vik Amar and Steve Calabresi have just filed in Moore v. [read post]
24 Oct 2022, 8:55 am
Here is the abstract: Building on Akhil Amar’s book, The Words That Made Us, this symposium essay examines constitutional conversations among ordinary Americans: what I call constitutional small talk. [read post]
16 Oct 2022, 9:02 pm
(For more background on these, and many other, reasons why ISL has no merit, readers can consult a recent law review article I co-wrote with my brother Professor Akhil Amar that was published four months ago. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 6:21 am
Academic disagreements risk becoming reality shows. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 11:30 am
Here is the abstract: This essay provides a balanced critique of Akhil Amar’s important book on early constitutional theory and practice. [read post]
