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5 Jul 2012, 9:45 am
Less well known is the influence of the “New Textualists,” a group of scholars that includes Akhil Reed Amar (Yale), Jack Balkin (Yale), and Einer Elhauge (Harvard). [read post]
4 May 2009, 2:42 pm
Davis Law School Akhil Amar, Yale Law School Heather K. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 3:48 pm
The Yale constitutional law professor Akhil Reed Amar has long argued that the health care act could be upheld as a tax, whether or not the statute actually used the “T-word,” as he put it. [read post]
16 May 2010, 2:49 am
Indeed, as my colleague Akhil Amar points out, he might welcome de-nationalization if it frees him from certain obligations to the U.S. [read post]
11 Sep 2012, 9:11 pm
FISA strains Fourth Amendment [Julian Sanchez] Paging Akhil Amar: Romney on Meet the Press says “I am as conservative as the constitution” [Tucson Citizen] Randy Barnett vs. [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 2:50 pm
Though I don't know if he loves the Constitution quite so much as his Yale colleague (and our mutual friend and casebook co-editor Akhil Reed Amar), both are basically without genuine anxiety when they ask if the Constitution itself, and not, as Akhil (or Paul Krugman) might put it, simply the fact that one of our two major political parties has been taken over by right-wing crazies, might help to explain why we might in fact be "a pathetic basket case of a nation." [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 10:07 am
A chapter of Akhil's fascinating book relies on the precedents set by George Washington (and the first Congress). [read post]
12 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
Last week’s Supreme Court oral argument in Moore v. [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 9:30 am
My friend Akhil Reed Amar, author of a new book on The Unwritten Constitution, weighs in with the following interestingn comments on the status of the presidential oath of office:* The sealing of the commission, not the taking of the oath of office, is the decisive moment of investiture. [read post]
7 Aug 2007, 5:35 am
Original meaning originalism just doesn't have the consequences you think it does.There's now a bunch of folks who have studied the issues for some time-- including, among others Randy Barnett (who is libertarian, not progressive), Akhil Amar and myself. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 10:14 am
Bruce Ackerman's huge multi-volume project, We the People, is a form of originalist popular constitutionalism, as is Akhil Amar's America's Constitution, in a very different way. [read post]
1 Aug 2020, 8:00 am
The fact that most liberals today don't like originalism doesn't mean that in the future they won't be attracted to liberal originalist theories like mine.For many years now, people like me, my colleague Akhil Amar, and the folks at the Constitutional Accountability Center have been showing liberals and progressives why originalism is important to a progressive vision of the Constitution. [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 7:16 am
In other words, innocent people.Nonetheless, Professors Akhil Reed Amar and Neal Katyal think King was a great decision because it passes the true test of the Fourth Amendment which is ... well, swabbing the DNA of innocent people for a government database is "not unreasonable":On one hand, the swabbing itself is not particularly intrusive — no more so than a fingerprint or a lineup. [read post]
7 May 2018, 7:09 am
Neily III Of course, there are numerous other excellent and influential books I might have mentioned by such well-known authors as John Hart Ely, Ronald Dworkin, Akhil Amar, James Ely, Bruce Ackerman, Richard Epstein, Barry Friedman, Richard Fallon, David Strauss, Jack Balkin, Sandy Levinson, James Fleming, Tom West and many more. [read post]
18 Sep 2016, 1:32 am
Also reviewed is Padraig Riley's Slavery and the Democratic Conscience: Political Life in Jeffersonian America.In the Los Angeles Review of Books is a review of Akhil Reed Amar's The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era.Public Books carries a review of Sebastian Conrad's What Is Global History?. [read post]
1 Jul 2022, 9:30 pm
Akhil Reed Amar on Why Liberal Justices Need to Start Thinking Like Conservatives (Time). [read post]
31 Jan 2025, 9:30 pm
It opens with a panel discussion including Jeffrey Rosen, David Blight, and Akhil Amar, which will be open to the general public and livestreamed. [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… [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm
As my co-author (Akhil Amar) and I explain in great detail in an Article forthcoming in The Supreme Court Review (a draft of which is available on SSRN here), the ISL theory has its “modern” origins in the Bush v. [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… [read post]
