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10 Apr 2019, 6:00 am by Rick Pildes
Board of Education (thanks to Akhil Amar for reminding me of this example). [read post]
6 Apr 2019, 11:13 am by Steven D. Schwinn
Check out the back-and-forth between Sean Wilentz and Akhil Amar at the New York Times. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 5:59 pm by Samuel Bray
He has an interestingly negative concept of the separation of powers in the English constitutional system, which is similar to what Akhil Amar and others have written about how the separation of powers in the American constitutional system requires the concurrence of all three branches for a conviction to occur. [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 11:16 am by Scott Fruehwald
Above the Law, Law School’s Revolutionary ‘Third Year Anywhere’ Program Is Just What Legal Education Needs Akhil Reed Amar (Yale), Be Skeptical of Law School and Other College Rankings. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Yet, Professor Akhil Amar has observed that by the time of Reconstruction, the term had come to encompass an individual right. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
As I have written in a number of columns analyzing various aspects of the NPV movement, the essential idea—a version of which was seriously floated by a small number of people including me, my older brother (Akhil Amar), and also (separately) by Professor Robert Bennett over a decade ago—seeks to permit and encourage various states to sign onto an agreement that would require each signatory state to cast its electoral college votes not for the candidate who garners a… [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 10:32 am by admin
The Interplay between the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause and the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause: Is the Supreme Court’s Test for “Public Use” Merely Rational Basis? [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 11:58 am by Philip Bobbitt
Both Professors Akhil Amar and Walter Dellinger—and Professor Tribe himself—have suggested that a sitting president might be indicted but not prosecuted. [read post]
31 Oct 2018, 2:22 pm by Adam Feldman
Several authors were cited in four observations, including Orin Kerr, Akhil Amar, Mark Lemley and Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash. [read post]
23 Oct 2018, 6:00 am by Sandy Levinson
 This facet itself of the Constitution forces us to realize that “fixity” may be a sometime thing, though, tellingly, the defense of Article VII must take the form either of an Ackermanian justified illegality or, as argued instead by his colleague Akhil Reed Amar, an assertion that the “confederation” announced in the Articles, including the strictures of Article XIII, had in effect been dissolved by the utter failure, for example, to elicit sufficient… [read post]
25 Sep 2018, 11:12 am by Tom Smith
Whether or not his nomination is withdrawn, Donald Trump should name a back-up nominee now in case Kavanaugh’s nomination fails (as Yale law professor Akhil Amar has suggested). [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 1:57 pm by Steve Gottlieb
Nevertheless, I doubt this president will make a better nomination, a point Akhil Amar, an old friend on the Yale Law faculty, made eloquently on these airwaves recently. [read post]
7 Sep 2018, 11:15 am by Kent Scheidegger
Akhil Amar of Yale testified this morning at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing. [read post]
31 Aug 2018, 6:59 pm by Ilya Somin
Akhil Amar, ACLU national legal director David Cole, and myself, among others. [read post]
23 Aug 2018, 5:50 pm by JB
Moreover, doing so would only bump me up two or three slots in his lists.However, the lesson here is that if you have ever written under more than one name (whether first or last), you should let Greg Sisk know in advance.There are, however, some amusing effects of using the correct citation counts.First, updating this list of most cited originalist scholars courtesy of Michael Ramsey, I am now the most cited originalist in the American legal academy.Second, among the top five most cited originalist… [read post]
17 Aug 2018, 6:27 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
Yale University 2160 Constitutional Law, Legislation 67 7 Akhil Amar Yale University 1600 Constitutional Law 60 8 Thomas Merrill Columbia University 1595 Administrative, Constitutional, and Property Law 69 9 Mark Tushnet Harvard University 1590 Constitutional Law, Legal History 72 10 Jack M. [read post]
5 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Board of Education) involve overruling past cases that were wrongly decided.Moreover, as my elder brother, Yale Law Professor Akhil Amar, and I argued many years ago when tackling this question, I think this “special justifications” approach wrongly submerges the meaning of the Constitution itself and improperly elevates the importance of the justices’ decisions. [read post]
3 Aug 2018, 12:17 pm by Josh Blackman
In America's Unwritten Constitution, Akhil Reed Amar wrote "Washington defined the archetypical presidential role," and "[a]s America's first 'first man,' [he] set precedents from his earliest moments on the job. [read post]