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13 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In what some commentators believe is one of the most important cases of the Supreme Court’s recently concluded term, Matal v. [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Richardson and his next-in-command, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, both refused to carry out the president’s order and resigned instead, the acting head of the Department of Justice, Solicitor General Robert Bork, carried out President Nixon’s wishes and fired Mr. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 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 May 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Last week saw a very important development in the election reform movement known as the National Popular Vote (“NPV”) interstate compact plan. [read post]
18 May 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Although I had planned to write on another subject this week, recent and fast-moving events warrant attention to the topic of impeachment, a process more and more commentators (and some legislators on Capitol Hill) have been mentioning. [read post]
4 May 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
He is a co-author, along with William Cohen and Jonathan Varat, of a major constitutional law casebook, and a co-author of several volumes of the Wright & Miller treatise on federal practice and procedure. [read post]
6 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Three days before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, Summer Zervos—a woman who had participated on Mr. [read post]
One of the vexing legal questions raised by President Trump’s original and revised executive orders concerning entry into the United States by nationals of several Middle Eastern and African countries is whether and how courts ought to take into account the subjective motives behind the executive order, whether or not these motives are reflected in the text of the orders themselves. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Legal magazines have recently been reporting on a spate of legislative proposals in various states that seek, albeit in different ways, to give legislatures increased power to interpret and implement the Constitution in the face of judicial rulings with which the legislators may disagree. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Michael Schaps
With many eyes this week on the Ninth Circuit litigation challenging President Trump’s Executive Order regulating entry into the U.S. by nationals of seven Middle Eastern and African countries, less noticed but potentially as important is a separate lawsuit (San Francisco v. [read post]
26 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Philadelphia’s mayor signed into law this week a measure that prohibits employers in the city from asking job applicants to provide their past salary data, something supporters of the ordinance hope will help reduce the wage gap between men and women.The theory appears to be that if women’s wages currently lag men’s for illegitimate reasons, and if employers base new starting salaries in any significant measure on salary histories (which in turn would be affected by improperly low… [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]