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3 Nov 2016, 5:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
In July, in the aftermath of FBI Director James Comey’s wrong-headed decision to go public with the recommendations he was making to prosecutors in the DOJ that there was no plausible basis for prosecution of Hillary Clinton arising out of her email transgressions (and equally wrong-headed decision to opine about matters that went beyond whether prosecution was warranted), I wrote a column for this website identifying broader constitutional lessons to be gleaned from the episode.Since, as… [read post]
20 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Michael Schaps
Previously, he served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 2:40 pm
Friday, October 7, 2016 8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast   9:00 am - 9:15 am Welcome and Introduction Jennifer Johnson, Dean of the Law School Amy Bushaw, Chair of the Business Law Committee George K. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Given that this week is the first in the Supreme Court’s new Term, it is hardly surprising that I will devote today’s column to a case on the Court’s docket this week. [read post]
22 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
The defendants are the Governor and various other state officials, who plaintiffs allege are violating the constitutional rights of Detroit children by depriving students of their “fundamental right” to literacy under the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process and equal protection clauses.The Snyder Complaint—crafted by a high-powered team of litigators that includes Mark Rosenbaum from Public Counsel, famed Supreme Court specialist Carter Phillips from the Sidley Austin law… [read post]
Late last month, a federal trial court in Texas issued a nationwide order preventing the federal Department of Education (DOE), as well as a number of other federal agencies, from enforcing—anywhere in the country—their “interpretation of the definition of ‘sex’ in the various written directives … as applied to Title IX … and Title VII” (which are federal laws that prohibit certain entities from discriminating on the basis of sex). [read post]
24 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In a very unusual recent law review essay, University of Chicago (emeritus) law Professor Al Alschuler seeks to expose what he sees as judicial wrongdoing by Frank Easterbrook, a prominent judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (who came to the bench after a prolific career as a law professor and legal scholar, also at the University of Chicago.) [read post]
11 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Sometimes when a lawmaking body adopts a new rule that seeks to promote the protection of civil liberties, the effort backfires. [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 9:02 pm by Vikram David Amar
The biggest problem with the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case law over the last four decades is the lack of candor (some would say dishonesty) in the way the Court discusses the constitutional limits on government’s ability to use race. [read post]
16 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Donald Trump’s calls for the judge presiding over the federal fraud lawsuit against Trump University, Gonzalo Curiel, to remove himself from the case because of ethnicity-inspired bias against Mr. [read post]
15 Jun 2016, 2:22 pm by Rishabh Bhandari
The Post’s Greg Miller has more on this change in strategy. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Previously, he served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. [read post]
27 May 2016, 6:44 am
I’m cast in one of my least favorite plays of all time, ‘The Crucible,’ by Arthur Miller! [read post]
19 May 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Miller, a 1939 case in which a majority of the Kansas state senate challenged the actions of the state executive branch in connection with the ratification process of a proposed federal constitutional amendment. [read post]
5 May 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Greg Miarecki
Previously, he served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
This week the lower house of Brazil’s national legislature (the Chamber of Deputies) voted to approve the impeachment accusations leveled against President Dilma Rousseff, which means the case moves over to the upper house of the legislature, the Federal Senate. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Previously, he served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. [read post]