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26 Dec 2023, 9:01 pm
But we must be careful to distinguish those kind of prudential arguments from the much more careless “removing an opposition candidate from the ballot, indeed, a candidate currently leading in some polling averages . . . . through the exercise of judicial power is [inherently] a remarkably antidemocratic act” language.That latter kind of language and reasoning undermines, rather than promotes, what democracy means in America’s distinctive constitutional system.Follow… [read post]
25 Dec 2023, 9:01 pm
”Professor Lessig’s essay never returns to this “strong argument” to debunk it, making all the time and effort he spends on whether a sensible Section 3 could have intentionally excluded the President (which is beside the point if the President does hold office under the United States) the real puzzle.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is a Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law and a Professor of… [read post]
2 Dec 2023, 7:25 pm
My Northwestern colleague, Steve Calabresi, asked me to post this on his behalf: In an earlier post on the Volokh Conspiracy, I described Professors Akhil Reed Amar's and Vikram David Amar's disagreement with an amicus brief that former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, Professor Gary Lawson, and I filed in Moore v. [read post]
30 Nov 2023, 9:01 pm
A decision by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit late last month concerning Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), in Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP v. [read post]
15 Nov 2023, 10:21 pm
United States – raises two vital matters: 1) Can Congress tax unrealized capital gains, as Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman argues in an amicus brief; and 2) Can Congress enact a Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren-style wealth tax, including on unrealized capital gains, as the two Amar brothers (Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar) argue? [read post]
6 Nov 2023, 10:00 am
ABA Journal, 5 Jurisdictions Commit To Using NextGen Bar Exam ABA Journal, BigLaw Firms Ask Law School Deans To Respond To Antisemitism In Campus Protests Vikram David Amar (UC-Davis), Big Change to the LSAT May Alleviate Time Pressure for Some Takers American Lawyer, Big Law Firms Call on Top Law... [read post]
29 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
Notwithstanding some recent competition, the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) remains the most widely used and accepted standardized test considered by American law schools to admit new students to law school. [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 9:30 pm
Supreme Court Invented ‘Strict Scrutiny’ as a Result,” which appeared in the May 2023 issue of the Oklahoma Bar Journal.ICYMI: Vikram David Amar on Hylton v. [read post]
25 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
I am counsel of record in an amicus brief filed earlier this week on behalf of Professor Akhil Amar and myself, trying to provide an originalist answer to the questions the Court should be asking. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
Now that one U.S. [read post]
27 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
This is an important week for determining the fate of congressional district lines in the state of New Mexico. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:00 pm
Partisan gerrymandering, one of the subjects of the Supreme Court’s important ruling in June in the Moore v. [read post]
8 Sep 2023, 10:00 am
Vikram David Amar (UC-Davis), Is Higher Education Spending Excessive? [read post]
7 Sep 2023, 10:00 am
Vikram David Amar (UC-Davis), Is Higher Education Spending Excessive? [read post]
28 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
Two months ago, I wrapped up an eight-year stint as the Dean of the University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign and returned to “civilian” life as “just” a law professor. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
With questions about the health of U.S. [read post]
2 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
As the calendar turns from July to August, attention is properly beginning to focus on the Supreme Court’s upcoming term (even as there is still much to digest from what came down in June.) [read post]
27 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
As America seems to be figuratively coming apart at the seams, movements throughout the nation to accomplish literal (geopolitical) separation in various states and regions continue to gather supporters too. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 9:02 pm
Justices Thomas and Gorsuch did not embrace the majority’s views (which align tightly with the views Akhil Amar and I have advanced in many pieces of scholarship and in an amicus brief joined by Steven Calabresi). [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
A recent controversy over an invited-speaker event at the University of Pittsburgh (a public university in Pennsylvania known as “Pitt”) illustrates how both sides in free speech controversies at public universities seem to do and say untenable things, and also how the Supreme Court could improve matters by providing more clarity on key doctrinal and practical questions.The following factual contentions are drawn (and quote) from a demand letter sent to Pitt officials by the Alliance… [read post]
