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29 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
In this, the second of a two-part essay series, we continue to explore the constitutional issues raised by a recent episode in which a public high school (Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North Carolina) imposed disciplinary suspension on a student, Christian McGhee, for invoking the term “illegal alien” when asking a question to his teacher about an assignment. [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
The two of us just finished co-teaching a law school class focused on the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, and this semester has not lacked for plenty of cutting-edge, ripped-from-the headlines fodder for us to explore with our students. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 9:00 am
Vikram Amar suggested there were indeed problems. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
Every several years, around this time in the spring semester, I try to collect and update advice to offer to law students as they enter final-exam period (which is about to take place over the next few weeks at virtually every law school in the country). [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
A year ago, almost to the day, my (co-authored) Verdict column focused on the lessons to be learned from a high-profile and boisterous protest by Stanford Law School students at a Federalist Society Speaker Event featuring Judge Kyle Duncan, a conservative Trump-appointed judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
In two of my last three Verdict columns (this one and then this one co-authored with Jason Mazzone), I have discussed—in connection with the Supreme Court’s consideration in Trump v. [read post]
24 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
Earlier this month, in Trump v. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we raise and begin to analyze several interesting legal issues raised by the recent decision by a federal district court judge to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Disney Corporation against Florida officials for alleged retaliation (against Disney’s outspoken opposition to certain Florida laws and policies) by altering the structure of the board that regulates the land in which Disney World is located. [read post]
20 Feb 2024, 2:16 pm
[The issues, arguments, and evidence raised by Mikhail has already been addressed by our scholarship. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 10:38 am
Also online there, law professor Vikram David Amar has an essay titled “The Supreme Court’s Oral Argument in Trump v. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 9:00 pm
The Court’s manipulation of the meaning of Section Three can’t address the basic reality that states can (and ultimately will) do whatever they want as long as we have an electoral college model for picking Presidents, something on which our originalist Constitution is (for better or worse) quite clear.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is a [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 9:36 am
Akhil Amar & Vikram Amar.] [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 11:00 pm
The Amar brothers think that our current setup of having legislative officers in the line of succession to the presidency is unconstitutional as they argued in print in Akhil Reed Amar & Vikram David Amar, Is the Presidential Succession Law Constitutional? [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 7:47 pm
Professor Akhil Reed Amar and Professor Vikram Amar Retreat From Their "Global" Rule for the "Offices" and "Officers" of the Constitution (1/27/24). [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 6:51 am
As Vikram David Amar has pointed out in these pages, the Incompatibility Clause (Art. [read post]
31 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
We don’t think there is a convincing answer to that question, which is one straightforward reason why we would be extremely surprised if this lawsuit ending up having any real legs.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is a Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law and a Professor of Law and Former De [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 8:09 am
Akhil Reed Amar (Yale) and Vikram David Amar (Illinois) in Trump v. [read post]
27 Jan 2024, 7:54 pm
[This post is co-authored with Professor Seth Barrett Tillman] On January 18, Professor Akhil Reed Amar and Professor Vikram Amar filed an amicus brief in Trump v. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 7:53 am
In late December, University of Illinois standout basketball player Terrence Shannon Jr. was arrested by Kansas officials for alleged digital penetration of a woman’s vagina without her consent at a bar in Lawrence, Kansas, back in September. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
Say what you will about Donald Trump, he is a prodigious generator of constitutional law. [read post]
