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23 Apr 2017, 12:00 am
” In the same publication, Jeremy Waldron reviews Akhil Reed Amar’s The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era, which argues that the “Constitution has to be both timeless and timely. [read post]
12 Aug 2024, 4:00 am
Hunter's Lessee and revived (and tweaked) by Akhil Amar in a 1985 article. [read post]
8 Dec 2021, 5:00 am
They lurk behind our debates on how to best understand the Constitution, and they largely turn on unwritten ideas.For similar reasons, Professor Akhil Amar wrote a book titled "America's Unwritten Constitution," and Professor Laurence Tribe authored a book titled "The Invisible Constitution. [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]
21 Oct 2013, 3:30 pm
Judge Jacobs has cited articles written by students, judges and scholars, century-old chestnuts and brand new work, he cites celebrities like Akhil Amar and William Stuntz writing in the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal, and lesser-known scholars writing in less fancy venues. [read post]
10 Jul 2008, 1:55 pm
The pro-incorporation view was given powerful further scholarly support by Michael Kent Curtis starting in 1980, joined by Akhil Reed Amar, Richard Aynes, Earl Maltz, and Stephen Halbrook, among others, in the 1990s. [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]
26 May 2007, 2:18 pm
" Rather, on a nice Akhil Amar intratextualist reading, the reference to "legislation" instead of "bills" and the absence of any reference to the veto power plainly mean that legislation passed under the post-Civil War Amendments is not subject to the veto power. [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]
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]
4 Jan 2009, 4:02 pm
For a spirited defense of this approach, see this nice piece by Akhil Amar and my colleague Josh Chafetz.4) Finally, if all else fails, there's what we might call the Andrew Jackson approach--named for the President who, so the probably-false legend goes, said in response to the Supreme Court's decision in Worcester v. [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 2:32 pm
” This history has been told lately in superb works by Akhil Amar and Jack Balkin, but Vinson ignored it.Vinson’s trade theory is inconsistent with not one, but two, of Chief Justice Marshall’s landmark opinions. [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
