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21 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In my last column, 2020 Election Legal Maneuvering, I described a recent lawsuit filed by some prominent lawyers and law professors challenging Texas’s use of the so-called Winner-Take-All (WTA) approach to selecting the state’s representatives to the so-called Electoral College. [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Legal and political commentators have already spent thousands of hours on how best to understand Justice Alito’s majority opinion in Burwell v. [read post]
3 May 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
It is usually a happy coincidence when my two professional roles—constitutional scholar/teacher and academic administrator—come together in a work task. [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
My biweekly column slot this week roughly coincides with the beginning of the new academic year at most law schools across the country. [read post]
1 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
As is typical, the Supreme Court this year delivered some of its biggest rulings at the end of the term. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
June 2019 might become known in Illinois as the month the state legalized marijuana use, but I hope it remains better remembered as the 100th anniversary of Illinois’ ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment—the provision in the Constitution that prohibited discrimination in voting on account of sex. [read post]
14 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
As the fall semester approaches and college freshmen prepare to start school, there is renewed criticism of the University of California’s decision, implemented over the last few years at all or nearly all of the system’s campuses, to increase the number and percentage of out-of-state and international college students. [read post]
30 Nov 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Over the next few weeks, law school final exams will be in full swing at almost every law school in the country. [read post]
31 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
This three-part series looks at intriguing constitutional questions raised by California’s statutory enactment of SB 826, which requires publicly held corporations with principal executive offices located in California to have a prescribed number of women on their boards of directors. [read post]
With all the discussion these days over what public universities and municipalities can and should be doing to handle large, raucous rallies and protests without sacrificing public health and safety, one topic that has been mentioned but not often thoroughly analyzed is what the rules are, or ought to be, when a boisterous and angry crowd “shouts down” a speaker. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
With the president and the Senate staking out their relative positions concerning the Supreme Court vacancy created by Antonin Scalia’s death, Americans need to understand the basic ground rules of the judicial appointments game. [read post]
24 Feb 2008, 10:19 am
" said Lynch, whose seven-room raised ranch on nearly 1 acre is assessed at $243,080.The residents, who live on Fox Run Drive, Wolf Pit Drive and Forest Park Road, are relying on a 2000 study by researchers at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, which studied approximately 3,200 home transactions in Montgomery County, Ohio. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 4:16 pm
- I heard something else; at the foot of that cross, inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion's den, Ezekiel's field of dry bones. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In an essay for this website a few weeks ago, my fellow columnist and friend Mike Dorf wrote about how the Obamacare statute (Act) might be in danger in the King v. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Michael Schaps
When doctors consider whether to administer a particular medical treatment, they have to balance the treatment’s efficacy (that is, how likely the treatment is to help the patient, and by how much) against negative side effects (that is, how likely the treatment is to harm the patient, and how badly). [read post]