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26 Dec 2023, 9:01 pm
Immediately prior to taking the position at Illinois in 2015, Amar served as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
Immediately prior to taking the position at Illinois in 2015, Amar served as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law. [read post]
13 Sep 2023, 10:08 pm
Nearly three decades ago, Vikram and Akhil Amar argued that there is no difference between "Officers of the United States" and "Office[s] . . . under the United States," and the President is covered by both phrases. [read post]
20 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm
In addition to eliminating the possibility of a divisive prosecution, such a bipartisan gesture would appear more legitimate and might even begin to repair what this ugly campaign has broken.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
31 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
., selective service conscription).In this regard, harken back to what another prominent constitutional scholar, Akhil Amar (my older brother), wrote about Obamacare in 2012: The next terrorist attack might very well be biological. . . . [read post]
17 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm
The three recent pickups mean that 14 states (plus DC, which is not a state but which participates in the electoral college) have adopted; these 15 jurisdictions represent 189 electors—70% of the needed 270.In 2001, in some academic writings, my brother (and fellow law professor) Akhil Amar and I—and, separately, another law professor, Robert Bennett—laid out the intellectual foundations of this plan that would move the country close to having a national popular election… [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 9:30 pm
Supreme Court Invented ‘Strict Scrutiny’ as a Result,” which appeared in the May 2023 issue of the Oklahoma Bar Journal.ICYMI: Vikram David Amar on Hylton v. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm
Over the past month or two, religious accommodation laws that have been enacted or proposed by states have attracted much attention in the media and among legal analysts. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
Near the end of February, a high-profile group of lawyers and law professors filed a suit challenging the permissibility of the way Texas goes about administering presidential elections. [read post]
25 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm
In Part One of this two-part discussion of Senate reform proposals, I shared some thoughts on the filibuster. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
Shortly before Christmas, the California State Bar released detailed data on the July 2015 bar exam results, and the information confirms some national patterns but also contains a few surprises. [read post]
12 May 2022, 9:01 pm
The state gas tax in Illinois had been slated, by laws passed before this year, to increase by 2.4 cents/gallon in about six weeks, on July 1, 2022. [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm
Two weeks ago the Republican Minority Leaders in both Houses of the Illinois legislature (known as the General Assembly), in their official capacity and as individual registered voters, brought suit in federal district court in McConchie v. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 8:54 am
The following contribution to our Fisher symposium comes from Vikram Amar, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. [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]
10 Jul 2023, 4:00 am
On Wednesday, July 19, at 3 pm Eastern time, University of Illinois Law Dean and Professor Vikram Amar and I will discuss the Term's big cases in a one-hour webinar hosted by Justia (publisher of Verdict, for which Dean Amar and I are both columnists). [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
So whether or not a broader executive privilege should have been recognized by the Court, Richard Nixon should not have benefitted from it, in the same way that other privileges do not protect persons engaged in ongoing criminality.That said, as commentators such as Akhil Amar have observed, there are aspects of the Court’s reasoning that don’t hold up well to careful scrutiny. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm
Late last month, a federal trial court in Texas issued a nationwide order preventing the federal Department of Education (DOE), as well as a number of other federal agencies, from enforcing—anywhere in the country—their “interpretation of the definition of ‘sex’ in the various written directives … as applied to Title IX … and Title VII” (which are federal laws that prohibit certain entities from discriminating on the basis of sex). [read post]
6 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
As my co-author (Akhil Amar) and I discuss in an Article forthcoming in The Supreme Court Review (a draft of which is available on SSRN here), recent attention concerning ISL theory may have been generated by members of the Supreme Court itself; four Justices, drawing on arguments advanced in the Bush v. [read post]
