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2 Oct 2020, 4:24 pm
But under an alternate theory advanced by Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar, the Presidential Succession Act is unconstitutional. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 7:23 am
He's 86, and maybe he knows that, while he's okay hanging on as a Senator, he doesn't belong in the presidency.There is also a serious argument, first laid out by Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar and his brother, Vikram Amar, now dean of the University of Illinois College of Law, in a 1995 essay in the Stanford Law Review, that the Succession Act is unconstitutional. [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
On November 10, the Supreme Court will hear argument in California v. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s career will be remembered for so many things, most notably her work as a litigator, a law professor, a lower court judge and a Justice at the Supreme Court (where she sat for over a quarter century). [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 10:20 am
Vikram Amar (Dean, Illinois), What About the Bar Exam After the 2020 Dust Settles? [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm
My thoughts and prayers go out to the (tens of) thousands of students who are slated to take remote bar exams in several states (including large states like California, New York, and Illinois) a little over two weeks from now, on October 5 and 6. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm
Last week a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 9:01 pm
As I have explained in many essays analyzing different nuances of this concept, the NPV plan—a version of which was seriously floated by a small number of people including me, my older brother Akhil Amar, and also (separately) Professor Robert Bennett over a decade-and-a-half ago—seeks to permit and encourage states to sign onto an agreement that would require each signatory state to cast its electoral college votes not for the candidate who necessarily garners the largest… [read post]
13 Jul 2020, 9:01 pm
There is both good and bad news in the pair of cases, Chiafalo v. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 9:01 pm
Last week, the California legislature approved Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 5 (“ACA 5”) and sent it to the California Secretary of State, who in turn will submit the matter to the people of the state to vote on this November. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 9:00 pm
When can federal judges, selected and given life tenure under Article III of the Constitution, inject themselves into core prosecutorial functions and decisions managed by the U.S. [read post]
22 May 2020, 11:00 am
ABA Journal, Expanded Online Law School Classes Could Continue Under Plan Endorsed by ABA Legal Ed Council ABA Journal, Law school still out of compliance with ABA admissions standard and dealing with fraud allegations Above the Law, The Time Is Now To Support Real Innovation In Legal Education Vikram Amar... [read post]
21 May 2020, 10:31 am
Following up on my previous post, New York's Discrimination Against Graduates Of Out-Of-State Law Schools Is Unconstitutional — 'Whether It’s Toilet Paper Or Bar Exam Seats, Hoarding Is Wrong': Vikram Amar (Dean, Illinois), Why It is Unconstitutional for State Bars, When Doling out Bar-Exam Seats, to Favor In-State Law Schools:... [read post]
20 May 2020, 9:01 pm
As bar examiners around the country grapple with administering bar exams this summer (either in July, as originally scheduled, or a month or two later) in the kind of socially distanced format the COVID-19 pandemic seems likely to require, a troubling pattern is emerging. [read post]
14 May 2020, 9:01 pm
An important case pending before the Supreme Court may provide important guidance on the question whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits states from denying government subsidies to religious organizations who will use the funds for religious purposes. [read post]
12 May 2020, 9:00 pm
COVID-19 has (rightly) pushed from the headlines almost every political controversy lacking a coronavirus angle. [read post]
8 May 2020, 10:20 am
Vikram Amar (Dean, Illinois), The New York Bar’s Misguided Discrimination Against Out-Of-State Law Schools Sara Berman (AccessLex Center... [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 8:47 pm
Over at Justia, Vikram Amar and Jason Mazzone make the case that there was not constitutional violation justifying federal court intervention. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 8:50 am
For example, University of Illinois law school Dean Vikram Amar argues that constraints on federal power to regulate interstate commerce unjustifiably prevent the federal government from ordering a nationwide lockdown, and could also block it from requiring mandatory vaccination of all Americans when and if a vaccine becomes available. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 8:20 am
” Law professors Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone have this essay online at Justia’s Verdict. [read post]
