Search for: "David R. Wright" Results 361 - 380 of 683
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
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]
4 May 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
He is a co-author, along with William Cohen and Jonathan Varat, of a major constitutional law casebook, and a co-author of several volumes of the Wright & Miller treatise on federal practice and procedure. [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In the space below, I analyze a pending effort by California lawmakers to cleanse the California statute books of (what are to my mind) some mean-spirited provisions concerning the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the State. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
., we ought not waste time on any hearing.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]
17 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
One of the most-watched set of Supreme Court cases last term involved efforts by reformers to enlist the federal judiciary in the fight to rein in what some people believe is problematically aggressive partisan gerrymandering. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In my last column, Part I of this Two-Part series, I argued that lower courts are justified in paying (indeed perhaps required to pay) close attention to Justice Kennedy’s concurring opinion in this summer’s blockbuster Burwell v. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Perhaps the reason the Harris Court did not discuss justiciability at all is that the plaintiff’s allegations of significant partisan motivation were factually baseless in any event, but had Justice Scalia remained on the Court, I would not have been surprised to see him comment on whether the Court should be reaching the merits at all.As in so many other areas, the Court in this setting is different in his absence.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is… [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the dean at the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Legal magazines have recently been reporting on a spate of legislative proposals in various states that seek, albeit in different ways, to give legislatures increased power to interpret and implement the Constitution in the face of judicial rulings with which the legislators may disagree. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
He is a co-author, along with William Cohen and Jonathan Varat, of a major constitutional law casebook, and a co-author of several volumes of the Wright & Miller treatise on federal practice and procedure. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
For many folks, next week’s Republican presidential debate in Cleveland—sponsored by Fox News and Facebook and scheduled to air on the Fox News Channel—fully kicks off the 2016 presidential election season. [read post]
Over the past month or two, religious accommodation laws that have been enacted or proposed by states have attracted much attention in the media and among legal analysts. [read post]
1 Dec 2008, 4:14 pm
Broadcast Law Blog David Oxenford, David Silverman and Brendan Holland, three broadcast attorneys with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, operate the Broadcast Law Blog. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
One of the important Supreme Court cases currently being briefed (with oral argument set for March), Arizona Legislature v. [read post]
1 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
About a month ago I wrote an essay for this website commenting on the drop in bar passage rates in many states in the fall of 2014. [read post]