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18 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
This week’s proposal by President Trump that immigrants detained at the border be relocated to so-called “sanctuary” cities (which the federal government has previously defined as jurisdictions that refuse to assist in federal immigration enforcement), so that these cities will bear the costs of absorbing the detainees, is not the first time the federal government has considered punishing (as distinguished from simply withholding federal funding from) sanctuary jurisdictions. [read post]
17 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
If Red state voters and elected officials believe (as do I) that all votes should count equally nationwide and also that presidential elections should not focus only on a handful of swing states and ignore states like Texas and California that are solidly in the R or D column from the outset, they could simply agree to adopt NPV now, but declare that their adoption in their state won’t take effect until the election of 2032. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
(For a full explanation of why the AIRC ruling means direct democracy is permissible in electoral college reform, see my Justia essay written in the wake of the ruling.)Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In our two previous columns on the recent lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR) for its use of race and gender in selecting its members and authors for publication, we explored challenges the plaintiff faces in establishing standing to sue in federal court, the relationship of Title VI and IX (the statutory provisions the plaintiff has invoked) to the constitutional… [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
In our last column, we explored some threshold justiciability issues (focusing on the plaintiff’s standing to sue in federal court) in the recent federal lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR), challenging HLR’s use of race and gender in selecting members and also in selecting authors for publication. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Public universities all over the country are grappling with the challenges that arise when members of the university community (especially so-called Registered Student Organizations or RSOs) invite contentious speakers to campus for events that threaten to generate tremendous passion on all sides of controversial issues, and that carry with them the realistic prospect of violence. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 6:14 am
McLeod, and Anitha Reddy, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Thursday, February 14, 2019 Tags: Boards of Directors, Books and records, Delaware cases, Delaware law, DGCL, DGCL Section 220, Forum selection, Securities litigation, Shareholder suits Firms’ Innovation Strategy under the Shadow of Analyst Coverage Posted by Bing Guo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), David Pérez‐Castrillo (Autonomous University of… [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
For many law students, membership in and service on an academic journal is a highlight of the law school experience. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Last week an Alabama trial court judge (Michael Graffeo) made national news when (literally just minutes before his judicial term expired and he began retirement) he held that the Alabama Memorial Protection Act (AMPA)—which prohibits public jurisdictions within the state from altering or otherwise disturbing public monuments that have been in existence for at least forty years—violated the Fourteenth Amendment free speech and due process rights of the City of Birmingham, which sought to… [read post]
10 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In my last column, Part One of this series, I examined a lawsuit challenging the Arizona state law scheme for holding a replacement election to fill the US Senate vacancy created by John McCain’s death last year. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
An interesting and potentially important lawsuit in federal court in Arizona is challenging the way state officials have sought to deal with the vacancy in the US Senate created by Senator McCain’s death four months ago (on August 25, 2018). [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
As the vote tallies for the November 2018 federal elections become finalized, one seat in the House of Representatives may not be resolved for several weeks because of an unusual lawsuit filed by Republican incumbent Bruce Poliquin (along with three Republican voters) in Maine. [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [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]
18 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
4 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 826, a landmark measure that requires each publicly held corporation whose principal executive offices are located in California to have, by the end of 2019, at least one woman on its board of directors. [read post]