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22 Nov 2008, 9:06 pm
This is illustrative of the disappearance of what Vik Amar in a 1996 article in Vanderbilt called "interbranch rotation," individuals moving directly from the Senate into the executive branch, especially cabinet posts, then back into the Senate soon after leaving the cabinet. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 12:49 pm
The Court may be "nonchalant," but, I think, this doctrine in particular is unusually weak as a vehicle for protecting "voting rights" under the Constitution.It’s also consistent with the views of Dean Vik Amar and Professor Jason Mazzone looking at this very case. [read post]
12 Feb 2017, 1:12 pm
For a thoughtful analysis of the tough questions that await WHO, see Vik Amar and Michael Schaps, How Strong is San Francisco’s ‘Sanctuary City’ Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration, available here. [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 9:22 am
Dean Vik Amar's columns on Verdict (archived here) have been especially good at cataloguing the multiple ways in which ISL is ahistorical, atextual, and senseless. [read post]
11 Apr 2010, 1:48 pm
Rose.Can't help, though, but be concerned about the dearth of women on this list (reflective, no doubt, of the proportion in the academy as a whole, an issue that my deans, Kevin Johnson and Vik Amar, tackle in this new column on need for faculty diversity).And can't help harbor concern about the fact that not 1 woman is on Brian's list of Ten Most Cited Faculty 2005-2009; indeed, the list drops a full 660 citations to get to the 1st woman (Kathleen Sullivan) below… [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 7:19 am
(Vik Amar disagrees to some degree). [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 10:34 am
Even so, a few reactions to the story have been thoughtful and have even used the controversy to make good points, such as my Verdict colleagues Vik Amar and Jason Mazzone's piece earlier this week (the first of a two-parter, with the second part not yet published), in which they commit the unpardonable sin of observing that "shouting down" a speaker is actually a nuanced issue.I use the sarcastic phrasing "unpardonable sin" because the standard… [read post]
13 Mar 2023, 4:00 am
To see why, readers could do no better than to read the terrific amicus brief by law professors Akhil Amar, Vik Amar, and Steve Calabresi. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 4:20 pm
You can watch the event that I moderated, from UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project, here: [read post]
28 Jan 2024, 6:26 am
[1] My fellow Balkinization blogger Mark Tushnet has suggested, and amici Akhil and Vik Amar have argued, that the Court should opt for a fourth option—namely, to affirm the legality of Colorado’s refusal to place Trump’s name on the primary election ballot without deciding the substantive question of his eligibility to be President. [read post]
19 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
In my column last Thursday, I cited a Verdict column by Illinois Law’s Dean Vik Amar and his colleague Professor Jason Mazzone. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 9:12 am
(My friend Vik Amar has written a very intelligent commentary on this question which can be found at http://verdict.justia.com/2011/10/28/an-update-on-the-fisher-v-university-of-texas-affirmative-action-case.) [read post]
4 Aug 2023, 1:20 pm
When the last was enacted in 2021, Professor Vik Amar highlighted constitutional objections, based on a law review article he published in 2008. [read post]
1 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm
And as Vik Amar and Alan Brownstein ably argued in their column on the subject, the law likely does not conflict with clinics’ First Amendment freedom of speech (or, in this case, freedom against compelled speech).Pro-Life PerspectivePutting myself in the shoes of a pro-life advocate, I would almost certainly object to the California law. [read post]
30 May 2016, 9:01 pm
Fear not, Justice Thomas: in most cases, it does.Precisely because state actors can so easily game the system, a number of prominent commentators, including Second Circuit Judge Jon Newman and my fellow Verdict columnist Vik Amar, as well as the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, have argued we should do away with peremptory strikes altogether. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 1:45 pm
This is, incidentally, one of the things that is potentially disastrous--and, Akhil and Vik Amar have argued, unconstitutional--about the present succession in office act, by which Nancy Pelosi is now second in line for the White House should anything happen to Bush and Cheney. [read post]
11 Sep 2012, 8:27 am
Vik Amar asked: “Why is a percentage plan in which the racial demographics are taken into account in deciding the criteria of admission constitutionally superior to a Harvard-style plus added at the moment when those criteria are applied? [read post]
13 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm
And it can only be answered in Trump’s favor if our highest court has become as blindly partisan as the rest of Washington.Note: Please see Vik Amar’s column of this situation which he did here on April 7.Follow @JohnWDean John W. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 9:01 pm
I wrote about the case when the Court first took it, on May 30, and Vik Amar and Alan Brownstein wrote about the oral argument last week, here, on November 8 and also earlier on June 7. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 1:18 pm
Akhil Amar showed in The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction how originalism leads to incorporation of the Bill of Rights. [read post]
