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16 Sep 2016, 10:57 am
Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 9:06 pm
Akhil Reed Amar, guest-blogging) My new book, America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By, is organized around different techniques of constitutional interpretation. [read post]
22 Dec 2012, 3:26 pm
Akhil Reed Amar makes an interesting argument that the Act is unconstitutional, though this has been disputed by Seth Barrett Tillman. [read post]
23 May 2013, 2:33 pm
My friend Akhil Amar has made another point with regard to the compromises on slavery. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 9:13 am
Here, on the Florida Law Review's website.... [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 9:00 pm
In 2020 I began work on a comprehensive law review article (now co-authored with Akhil Amar) that is due out any week in The Supreme Court Review. [read post]
14 Mar 2017, 6:32 am
Akhil Amar, Yale University Law School, Delivers the Phelps Lecture on the First Amendment, titled: First Amendment Gumbo. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 6:21 am
Our panelists today are: Paul Clement, counsel to the plaintiff states; Michael Carvin, counsel to plaintiff National Federation of Independent Business; Neal Katyal, former Acting Solicitor General; Akhil Reed Amar, professor, Yale Law School. [read post]
13 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
A corollary of this point is, as Akhil and I have argued, that the Court’s repudiation of ISL in the Article I setting in the Arizona Elected Legislature v. [read post]
7 May 2021, 11:27 am
The Year That Changed Everything By Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University Akhil Reed Amar argues that Charles Beard and other historians who wrote that the Founders created the Constitution to solidify their wealth and power fail to appreciate the great democratic thrust of the document and the true Founders’ motives, but notes that those who wrote the Constitution did make a tragic mistake: accepting slavery. [read post]
23 Jul 2015, 6:30 am
But as their critics have pointed out, the key concept at the center of the popular turn has gone largely unexamined.The aim of this paper is to examine “the people” as it has been conceptualized in the work of three major theorists of the popular turn — Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Amar, and Larry Kramer. [read post]
28 Jul 2015, 9:43 am
The aim of this paper is to examine “the people” as it has been conceptualized in the work of three major theorists of the popular turn — Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Amar, and Larry Kramer. [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]
7 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
Immediately prior to taking the position at Illinois in 2015, Amar served [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm
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]
21 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm
Akhil Amar and I have argued that this congressional statute (which is different from some of its predecessors) is itself unconstitutional, because members of Congress are not “officers” within the meaning of the Constitution’s Succession Clause. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm
Interestingly, there was no great movement to amend the Constitution in the wake of the 1796 election to prevent a recurrence of a divided White House.As Akhil Amar and I explained in a Virginia Law Review article, the adoption of the Twelfth Amendment eight years hence (in 1804) did make it easier for political parties (a formidable reality by the mid-1790s, even though their existence at the constitutional founding was neither guaranteed nor prohibited) to elect an aligned… [read post]
31 May 2017, 9:01 pm
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… [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 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]
