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22 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm
But legislatures and courts need to understand what the Twenty-Sixth Amendment says and means to prevent this invidious disparate treatment from continuing to affect election outcomes in future years.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law on the Urbana-Champaign campus. [read post]
25 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]
11 Feb 2021, 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]
29 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
In my last column, I explored some aspects of an important case, Arizona Legislature v. [read post]
2 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
As the calendar turns from July to August, attention is properly beginning to focus on the Supreme Court’s upcoming term (even as there is still much to digest from what came down in June.) [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
In our last column, we explored some threshold justiciability issues (focusing on the plaintiff’s standing to sue in federal court) in the recent federal lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR), challenging HLR’s use of race and gender in selecting members and also in selecting authors for publication. [read post]
4 Jul 2022, 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]
30 Jun 2022, 4:14 pm
(For more on all this, interested readers can scour a law review article I co-authored with Akhil Amar that is viewable here and slated to be published any day now.)All of these arguments, separately and together, are compelling. [read post]
7 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
Immediately prior to taking the position at Illinois in 2015, Amar served [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm
As my brother Akhil Amar and I wrote in the LA Times last week, imagine that Hillary Clinton wins and the Democrats also regain the Senate. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm
Understanding Where the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact Plan Stands Today and How Partisan Roadblocks May Impede Its Continued Progress As I have written in a number of columns 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) by Professor Robert Bennett over a decade ago—seeks to permit and encourage various states to sign onto… [read post]
4 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm
(Justices Alito and Gorsuch in their dissent cast the issue more broadly, to include not just the Electors Clause of Article II, but also the Elections Clause of Article I, which contains similar language with regard to congressional elections as distinguished from presidential elector selection.)One of us (Vikram Amar) has elsewhere argued that the Republican Party’s theory here—that the federal Constitution frees state legislatures from state judicial review to… [read post]
16 Apr 2023, 9:02 pm
But for a recent example of the problems that arise when people speak before thinking these issues through, see this prior column that one of us (Amar) wrote.4. [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]
15 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
One of the important Supreme Court cases currently being briefed (with oral argument set for March), Arizona Legislature v. [read post]
1 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
About a month ago I wrote an essay for this website commenting on the drop in bar passage rates in many states in the fall of 2014. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
One of the important Supreme Court cases currently being briefed (with oral argument set for March), Arizona Legislature v. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
It is time for an update on a proposal—about which I wrote two columns (the second of which is here) last summer—that seeks to carve California up into three separate states. [read post]
12 Sep 2013, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we analyze an important and interesting decision, Demers v. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm
When doctors consider whether to administer a particular medical treatment, they have to balance the treatment’s efficacy (that is, how likely the treatment is to help the patient, and by how much) against negative side effects (that is, how likely the treatment is to harm the patient, and how badly). [read post]
