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12 May 2019, 9:01 pm
President Trump’s tweet a few weeks ago—indicating that he “would first head to the U.S. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm
This week’s proposal by President Trump that immigrants detained at the border be relocated to so-called “sanctuary” cities (which the federal government has previously defined as jurisdictions that refuse to assist in federal immigration enforcement), so that these cities will bear the costs of absorbing the detainees, is not the first time the federal government has considered punishing (as distinguished from simply withholding federal funding from) sanctuary jurisdictions. [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]
13 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm
(For a full explanation of why the AIRC ruling means direct democracy is permissible in electoral college reform, see my Justia essay written in the wake of the ruling.)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]
7 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm
In our two previous columns on the recent lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR) for its use of race and gender in selecting its members and authors for publication, we explored challenges the plaintiff faces in establishing standing to sue in federal court, the relationship of Title VI and IX (the statutory provisions the plaintiff has invoked) to the constitutional… [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]
19 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
Public universities all over the country are grappling with the challenges that arise when members of the university community (especially so-called Registered Student Organizations or RSOs) invite contentious speakers to campus for events that threaten to generate tremendous passion on all sides of controversial issues, and that carry with them the realistic prospect of violence. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
For many law students, membership in and service on an academic journal is a highlight of the law school experience. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week an Alabama trial court judge (Michael Graffeo) made national news when (literally just minutes before his judicial term expired and he began retirement) he held that the Alabama Memorial Protection Act (AMPA)—which prohibits public jurisdictions within the state from altering or otherwise disturbing public monuments that have been in existence for at least forty years—violated the Fourteenth Amendment free speech and due process rights of the City of Birmingham, which sought to… [read post]
10 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm
In my last column, Part One of this series, I examined a lawsuit challenging the Arizona state law scheme for holding a replacement election to fill the US Senate vacancy created by John McCain’s death last year. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm
An interesting and potentially important lawsuit in federal court in Arizona is challenging the way state officials have sought to deal with the vacancy in the US Senate created by Senator McCain’s death four months ago (on August 25, 2018). [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm
As the vote tallies for the November 2018 federal elections become finalized, one seat in the House of Representatives may not be resolved for several weeks because of an unusual lawsuit filed by Republican incumbent Bruce Poliquin (along with three Republican voters) in Maine. [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm
§ 1373), but state attempts to regulate federal land sales are not likely to succeed.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 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
This three-part series looks at intriguing constitutional questions raised by California’s statutory enactment of SB 826, which requires publicly held corporations with principal executive offices located in California to have a prescribed number of women on their boards of directors. [read post]
18 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
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]
9 Oct 2018, 1:38 pm
Vikram Amar & Jason Mazzone, Is California's Mandate That Public Companies Include Women on their Boards of Directors Constitutional? [read post]
9 Oct 2018, 1:38 pm
Vikram Amar & Jason Mazzone, Is California's Mandate That Public Companies Include Women on their Boards of Directors Constitutional? [read post]
4 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 826, a landmark measure that requires each publicly held corporation whose principal executive offices are located in California to have, by the end of 2019, at least one woman on its board of directors. [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
Earlier this summer, Illinois became the 37th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the United States Constitution originally proposed by Congress on March 22, 1972. [read post]
