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15 Sep 2023, 11:08 pm
Vikram D. [read post]
13 Sep 2023, 10:08 pm
Nearly three decades ago, Vikram and Akhil Amar argued that there is no difference between "Officers of the United States" and "Office[s] . . . under the United States," and the President is covered by both phrases. [read post]
8 Sep 2023, 10:00 am
Vikram David Amar (UC-Davis), Is Higher Education Spending Excessive? [read post]
7 Sep 2023, 10:00 am
Vikram David Amar (UC-Davis), Is Higher Education Spending Excessive? [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
As Professor (and then-Dean) Vikram Amar and Professor Jason Mazzone noted on Verdict, Dean Martinez sensibly committed to educating rather than punishing the students who had disrupted the talk.Dean Martinez’s letter also blamed “staff members who should have enforced university policies [but] failed to do so, and instead intervened in inappropriate ways that are not aligned with the university’s commitment to free speech. [read post]
28 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
Two months ago, I wrapped up an eight-year stint as the Dean of the University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign and returned to “civilian” life as “just” a law professor. [read post]
15 Aug 2023, 12:25 pm
Vikram D. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
With questions about the health of U.S. [read post]
2 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
As the calendar turns from July to August, attention is properly beginning to focus on the Supreme Court’s upcoming term (even as there is still much to digest from what came down in June.) [read post]
27 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
As America seems to be figuratively coming apart at the seams, movements throughout the nation to accomplish literal (geopolitical) separation in various states and regions continue to gather supporters too. [read post]
13 Jul 2023, 2:50 pm
What to Expect in This Justia Webinar In this highly anticipated program, Dean Amar and Professor Dorf will engage in a thought-provoking exploration of the Supreme Court’s most recent term. [read post]
10 Jul 2023, 4:00 am
On Wednesday, July 19, at 3 pm Eastern time, University of Illinois Law Dean and Professor Vikram Amar and I will discuss the Term's big cases in a one-hour webinar hosted by Justia (publisher of Verdict, for which Dean Amar and I are both columnists). [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 9:02 pm
Justices Thomas and Gorsuch did not embrace the majority’s views (which align tightly with the views Akhil Amar and I have advanced in many pieces of scholarship and in an amicus brief joined by Steven Calabresi). [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
In an important 1961 article in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel—who was a leading constitutional scholar of his generation—defended the Supreme Court’s exercise of what he called “the passive virtues. [read post]
28 Jun 2023, 5:34 pm
I wrote an amicus brief in this case with Yale Sterling Professor of Law, Akhil Reed Amar and Professor Vikram D. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
A recent controversy over an invited-speaker event at the University of Pittsburgh (a public university in Pennsylvania known as “Pitt”) illustrates how both sides in free speech controversies at public universities seem to do and say untenable things, and also how the Supreme Court could improve matters by providing more clarity on key doctrinal and practical questions.The following factual contentions are drawn (and quote) from a demand letter sent to Pitt officials by the Alliance… [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 6:00 am
Outside of my constitutional history seminar at NIU, Notre Dame has begun training students in doing constitutional history, and Akhil Amar at Yale is seeking to obtain credit for students assisting him, Vikram Amar and Steve Calabresi in filing historical amici. [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 9:03 pm
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently handed down an important 2-1 ruling in a case involving changes in the admissions policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (“Thomas Jefferson” or “TJ”) in Alexandria, Virginia, a public STEM-focused school that has a selective admissions process and that has traditionally served high-performing students. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
” Hasen argued that as we look with fear toward 2024’s election aftermath, we should [f]orget bonkers accusations about Italy using lasers to manipulate American vote totals and expect white-shoe lawyers with Federalist Society bona fides to argue next time about application of the “independent state legislature” doctrine in an attempt to turn any Republican presidential defeat into victory.My Verdict colleague Vikram Amar is arguably the leading expert on… [read post]
29 May 2023, 9:01 pm
A fast-moving lawsuit filed and ruled upon last week by a federal district judge highlights fundamental and recurring flaws in the judicial treatment of First Amendment freedom of expression, with plenty of blame to go around among various actors in our constitutional system.The dispute arose at Grand Valley High, a rural public high school about 45 miles from Grand Junction, Colorado. [read post]
