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14 Sep 2017, 10:41 am
Dean Vikram Amar is Dean of the University of Illinois College of Law and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
In my last column, I began analyzing a recent plan by Silicon Valley billionaire investor Tim Draper to break up California into three separate states stemming from his view that “California’s diverse population and economies [have] rendered the state nearly ungovernable. [read post]
24 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm
It is often (and rightly) said today that there are many people and forces working to divide America. [read post]
17 Aug 2017, 8:00 am
Vikram D. [read post]
11 Aug 2017, 11:00 am
Legal Educ. 538-652 (2017) Vikram Amar (Dean. [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
8 Aug 2017, 1:00 pm
Vikram Amar (Dean. [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
Although for my money the big news of the week has been the resurrection of efforts by Republicans in the U.S. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
In what some commentators believe is one of the most important cases of the Supreme Court’s recently concluded term, Matal v. [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
Professor Vikram Amar argued in an April column that developments since the Jones case could buttress Trump’s argument that a president deserves temporary immunity. [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
So whether or not a broader executive privilege should have been recognized by the Court, Richard Nixon should not have benefitted from it, in the same way that other privileges do not protect persons engaged in ongoing criminality.That said, as commentators such as Akhil Amar have observed, there are aspects of the Court’s reasoning that don’t hold up well to careful scrutiny. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
Debunking those ideas—not shouting them down or trying to suppress their expression—is what I want my students to learn how to do.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 May 2017, 9:01 pm
As I have written in a number of columns analyzing various aspects of the NPV movement, the essential idea—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 an agreement that would require each signatory state to cast its electoral college votes not for the candidate who garners a… [read post]
18 May 2017, 9:01 pm
Although I had planned to write on another subject this week, recent and fast-moving events warrant attention to the topic of impeachment, a process more and more commentators (and some legislators on Capitol Hill) have been mentioning. [read post]
5 May 2017, 9:50 am
ABA Journal, Law school leader among four deans dismissed from Florida A&M Above the Law, 2017 Law School Graduation Speaker Round-Up Above the Law, Readers Speak Out On The Closing Of Whittier Law School Vikram Amar (Dean Illinois), Evaluating Legal Education’s Vital Signs At The End Of The Academic Year... [read post]
4 May 2017, 9:01 pm
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm
When state and local governments create policy discriminating against federal contractors, they are not simply withholding assistance to the feds, but instead are affirmatively trying to make it harder for the feds to find third parties to implement national programs.More generally, I think whether we are talking presidential election reform or federal-state relations, we should always remember that the rules and doctrines we forge must apply equally well regardless of which political party or… [read post]
6 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm
Three days before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, Summer Zervos—a woman who had participated on Mr. [read post]
23 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm
One of the vexing legal questions raised by President Trump’s original and revised executive orders concerning entry into the United States by nationals of several Middle Eastern and African countries is whether and how courts ought to take into account the subjective motives behind the executive order, whether or not these motives are reflected in the text of the orders themselves. [read post]
19 Mar 2017, 9:05 pm
" Law professor Vikram Amar has this essay online at The Washington Post. [read post]
