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12 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
Last week’s Supreme Court oral argument in Moore v. [read post]
1 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
For many practical purposes, we all must accept the meaning of the Constitution to be what the U.S. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 9:00 pm
The latest filing in the Supreme Court’s biggest pending case is a perfect illustration of how not to do serious originalism.The case, Moore v. [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]
11 Nov 2022, 5:20 am
Most pertinently, it seems clear that the Supreme Court will soon rule in favor of the so-called Independent State Legislature theory (which my Verdict colleague Vikram Amar thoroughly debunked again two days ago), allowing gerrymandered Republican state legislatures in swing states to override the will of their voters in 2024 and award electors to Donald Trump (or whoever is the Republican presidential nominee).More broadly, the moving parts in our constitutional rules for… [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]
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]
6 Oct 2022, 7:50 am
” Law professors Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone have this essay online at Justia’s Verdict. [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
And membership changes have continued to influence doctrinal developments in fundamental areas of constitutional law: When one of us (Amar) graduated from law school in 1988, the Court was deferential to exercises of federal power. [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 10:00 am
ABA Journal, 2 of Puerto Rico's 3 Law Schools Will Get More Time to Meet Bar Pass Standard Vikram Amar (Dean, Illinois) & Jason Mazzone (Illinois), Where Have All the (Aspiring) Law Profs Gone? [read post]
21 Sep 2022, 12:05 am
, by Vikram Amar (Dean, Illinois) & Jason Mazzone (Illinois): It’s law professor hiring season again, the time of year when (most of)... [read post]
16 Sep 2022, 9:30 pm
Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone respond to Erwin Chemerinsky on originalism (Verdict). [read post]
14 Sep 2022, 9:01 pm
And the other, Amar, has, as Dean, been on the hiring committee at Illinois for each of the past eight years, and for the several years prior to that on the hiring committee at the UC Davis Law School, a peer institution, as its Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. [read post]
11 Sep 2022, 9:01 pm
The past term at the Supreme Court will certainly be known for the Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 8:34 am
The symposium begins with a panel moderated by the University of Illinois College of Law Dean, Dean Vikram D. [read post]
5 Sep 2022, 9:01 am
Following up on Friday's post, Sixty Deans Oppose Proposal To Make Law School Admission Tests Optional: the ABA has received over 100 comments thus far: AccessLex Institute Vikram Amar Fariha Amin Anonymous Anonymous Jordan Armstrong Matthew Asmar Shawn Bayern Jessica Braun Tamere Briley Thomas Browning Patricia Bryan Alec Burns CABL... [read post]
28 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm
I find the start of each academic year invariably invigorating. [read post]
