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27 Feb 2015, 7:20 am
The main exception to this has been the use of African-American sources in the Second Amendment cases, Heller and McDonald, relying in part on work by scholars (Akhil Amar, Robert Cottrol & Raymond Diamond, and others), and in Justice Thomas’s opinions on affirmative action (e.g. [read post]
19 Dec 2008, 4:30 pm
Or if an embattled President were to step down to devote his attention to defending himself against impeachment as Akhil Amar recommended for President Clinton, would that empower the V.P. and Cabinet force him out of power under §4 next time around? [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 8:23 am
Other scholars such as Akhil Amar have made similar arguments. [read post]
24 Aug 2023, 6:00 am
Many scholars believe that Clause was drafted with an eye towards protecting economic liberty in particular, but it was (in the words of Akhil Amar) “strangled in its crib” by the Slaughter‐House Cases. [read post]
12 Jun 2009, 7:04 am
According to Yale Law Professor Akhil Amar: “The American people ratified the Civil War Amendments with full understanding of the breadth of their language authorizing ‘appropriate’ federal legislation and knowing that Congress believed this language authorized transformative new federal statutes to secure the franchise and uproot all vestiges of inequality. [read post]
31 Dec 2008, 12:11 am
What I do believe is that the Senate may have more options in this case than one might think.UPDATE: Akhil Amar and Josh Chafetz over at Slate reach conclusions similar to mine by a different route: They point out (as does Mark Tushnet) that the Senate is also the judge of the "return" which, in this case, means the report of an appointment. [read post]
29 Jun 2013, 12:04 am
Basically, it's an inversion of the argument that Akhil Amar has made that early perspectives on the Indian commerce clause should demonstrate a broad view of the interstate clause. [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 9:46 am
The most interesting question for me, as one interested in models of long-term structural constitutional change, is which version of living originalism – one that emphasizes punctuated equilibria and relatively large scale regime changes (see Bruce Ackerman and Akhil Amar) or one that emphasizes change in particular areas through social/intellectual/political movements, which may be ongoing, and incremental (see Jack Balkin, Reva Seigel, Robert Post, e.g.) best captures the… [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 5:41 am
The Philadelphia Inquirer features two op-eds on the case: one by Akhil Amar and Todd Brewster, who argue that a “court decision overturning the Affordable Care Act would be an egregious misreading of the Constitution,” and the other by Ilya Shapiro, who argues that, because “[t]he government has failed to articulate a meaningful, judicially administrable limit to its power . . . it must lose. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 6:09 am
Readings will be taken from Professor Levinson’s book, Framed: America’s 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance (Oxford University Press, 2012); The Federalist; The Founders’ Constitution; Akhil Reed Amar,America’s Constitution: A Biography; and John Dinan, The American State Constitutional Tradition. [read post]
18 Aug 2012, 6:03 pm
This got some attention back in 2008 when the New York Times first posted on it and then ran commentary by a number of distinguished law professors -- like Pam Karlen, Akhil Amar, and Randy Barnett. [read post]
19 Aug 2012, 9:20 pm
He uses a technique that Akhil Amar has called "intra-textualism" to glean the meaning of a term--"Office"--from how it and other terms are used in other parts of the document. [read post]
2 Feb 2013, 5:13 pm
This got some attention back in 2008 when theNew York Times first posted on it and then ran commentary by a number of distinguished law professors -- like Pam Karlen, Akhil Amar, and Randy Barnett. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 7:13 am
Readings will be taken from Professor Levinson’s book, Framed: America’s 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance (Oxford University Press, 2012); The Federalist; The Founders’ Constitution; Akhil Reed Amar,America’s Constitution: A Biography; and John Dinan, The American State Constitutional Tradition.WORKSHOP LEADERSanford Levinson is the W. [read post]
7 May 2007, 10:50 am
All good brief writers know to quote "surprising" support for their views, along with more predictable citations.What cuts against the "causal" hypothesis is that no judge identified as "liberal" has, to my knowledge, announced a change of mind following reading anything that Amar or I, or especially Tribe, by far the most important of all of us, has written. 2) The Second Amendment is a wonderful example of the tension between "static" and… [read post]
20 Sep 2008, 8:45 pm
"--Akhil Amar, author of America's Constitution: A Biography "One of America's leading constitutional experts has delivered a thought-provoking volume that illuminates the complexities of the country's most important document. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 11:54 am
Liptak pointed to Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar who holds the opinion that the Constitution “implicitly immunize[s] a sitting president from ordinary criminal prosecution. [read post]
14 Aug 2007, 4:12 pm
Various scholars like Akhil Amar and David Strauss start developing individual methods of interpretation to new levels of sophistication. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 6:43 am
Justice Kennedy spoke at the Aspen Institute about the Constitution and the Court, in an event moderated by Akhil Amar and Elliot Gerson. [read post]
2 Jan 2015, 7:53 am
Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, who addressed the grand project of American constitutionalism, past, present, and future. [read post]
