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21 May 2022, 6:30 am
Guest Blogger This post was prepared for a roundtable onPublic Memory and Public Monuments, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
1 May 2022, 6:30 am
Guest Blogger This post was prepared for a roundtable on Reforming the Supreme Court of the United States, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
6 May 2014, 6:52 am
In a powerful dissenting opinion (rightly praised by Sandy Levinson below), Justice Kagan raises the possibility of prayer in the courtroom before a trial, prior to a naturalization ceremony, at a polling place on election day, or at the DMV. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 6:30 am
Sandy Levinson is surely correct that James Madison left much to be desired as a constitutional theorist, throwing out ideas that he did not fully explain or develop. [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 8:20 pm
Roe would enter what Sandy and I call the "anti-canon"; it would become the canonical example of how one shouldn't decide constitutional cases. [read post]
14 Aug 2007, 4:12 pm
Bruce Ackerman and Sandy Levinson were important here. [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 7:35 am
Sandy Levinson's and my theory of partisan entrenchment argues that Presidents generally attempt to install jurists who agree with their constitutional and policy positions on the issues most important to them. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 6:10 pm
In another post for Balkinization, University of Texas at Austin law professor Sandy Levinson suggests that Obama take the alternative route of educating the public “about the unconstitutional behavior of his Republican adversaries. [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 3:05 am
Nice.In our recent essay on constitutional dictatorship Sandy Levinson and I offer Bernanke as an example of a distinctive and important feature of American government, what we call distributed dictatorship. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 1:24 pm
This is Sandy Levinson's and my notion of partisan entrenchment.If Rick is right that modern Presidents cannot easily punish the Supreme Court directly, how is it, he asks, that the Supreme Court can be more or less guaranteed to stay in touch with the values of the dominant national coalition? [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 11:22 am
” If we can just get rid of the Electoral College, eliminate state equality in the Senate, abandon life tenure for federal justices, and change the rules for constitutional amendment, my friend Sandy Levinson and others imply, gridlock would disappear, the American people would cherish their governing officials, and most other ills of contemporary American politics would be significantly alleviated. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 1:49 pm
o Sanford Levinson and Jack Balkin - Morton Horwitz and The Rule of Lawo Laura Kalman - Transformationso Bill Nelson - Who Should Judge Legal History: Lawyers or Historians? [read post]
11 Jan 2007, 11:00 am
My good friend and mentor Sandy Levinson would have us agonize over the possibility that an incompetent president has 740 days yet to reign. [read post]
17 Aug 2023, 8:55 am
This paper is "highly recommended" by Larry Solum, as is this competing view offered by Jack Balkin and Sandy Levinson. [read post]
1 Jan 2007, 8:16 am
Consider, for example, the numerous arguments against the Constitution made in Sandy Levinson's book on the right. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 7:08 pm
Some people, like Sandy Levinson, argue that this is because those states have dysfunctional constitutions. [read post]
23 May 2007, 11:53 am
Even at Yale, which has long had a reputation for not caring much about law at all, this simply isn't the case.Apropos of Yale's reputation, this post wouldn't be complete without poking a little fun at my own law school, so let me close with this story, which Sandy Levinson likes to tell. [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 5:00 am
And I suppose everyone is just channeling Sandy Levinson, who has been arguing for several years that the Senate is a democratically abhorrent institution that undermines everything the federal government can or wants to do. [read post]
28 Sep 2008, 7:12 pm
Sandy Levinson apparently agrees with the need for more-active moderators (perhaps drawn from the smartest and more-principled of the commentariat--he names, among others, Andrew Sullivan, Paul Krugman, Charles Krauthammer, and E.J. [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 3:30 am
And surely if Sandy Levinson had been invited to write a chapter, more of this perspective would have been included.One might have expected more attention to recent battles in state constitutionalism in the volume especially, if only because progressives have ultimately prevailed in state courts with arguments the federal courts have thus far rejected. [read post]
