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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
But I do think (and have thought for some time) that it is a question worth examining carefully, as each passing election gives us information about how we might improve American democracy.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]
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]
10 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm
It is only to say that, while permissible, advisory measures like Proposition 49 that ask exaggerated questions, are of limited assistance in thinking meaningfully about the specific kinds of language we might include in our Constitution to make elections (and policy results) more fair and democratically responsive.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of Illinois College… [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]
11 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm
One often-overlooked aspect of the attention paid to U.S. [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 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]
11 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
Shortly before Christmas, the California State Bar released detailed data on the July 2015 bar exam results, and the information confirms some national patterns but also contains a few surprises. [read post]
1 Jan 2016, 11:00 am
At Justia.com's Verdict, law professor Vikram David Amar had an essay titled "Why the Challenges to California's Reproductive Fact Act Are Likely Unpersuasive. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm
How Seriously to Take Mismatch Theory We stress (and one of us, Dean Amar, has written over the years) that we do not believe the case for mismatch theory has been empirically made; there is scholarship going both ways, and much more scholarship to be done. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm
Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm
In the space below, I preview a case to be argued in the Supreme Court next week, Harris v. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we analyze the essential issues raised in Spokeo v. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 9:01 pm
Last year at the Supreme Court, there was some level of drama about who would win or lose what I (and many other analysts) thought were the major cases; most people expected Justice Kennedy to join (as he did) with the more liberal Justices to recognize a national right of marriage equality for same-sex couples, but folks were less confident about the results in the Obamacare tax subsidies case and the challenge to Arizona’s independent redistricting commission, to name just a few. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 9:01 pm
Many of the essays posted on Verdict deal with Supreme Court cases; in today’s column I focus on an opinion issued by a court at the base, rather than the pinnacle, of the federal judicial system—this month’s ruling by a federal district court in Arizona disposing of residual challenges brought against Arizona’s SB 1070 statute, the statute passed in 2010 attempting to deal with immigration stresses in the state, parts of which were struck down two years later by the Supreme… [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 9:01 pm
We are now just weeks away from the start of the Supreme Court’s 2015-2016 Term, and in the coming months the Justia Verdict site will feature previews and analyses of many important upcoming cases. [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 9:01 pm
Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the dean at the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 9:01 pm
What can I say about a university system that I am leaving after twenty-three years as a professor? [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]
16 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm
Vikram David Amar is a law professor and the dean designate of the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
