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3 Oct 2021, 1:33 pm
Professor Vikram David Amar wrote in 2004 that Justice Stevens’ position is “quite scary” and could result in a Catch-22 for plaintiffs: “Give up an activity that they believe (and a district court agrees) is constitutionally protected, or risk criminal prosecution down the road if the district court is reversed. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 5:59 am
The best available debunking of the independent state legislature theory is in a draft paper by University of Illinois College of Law Dean Vikram Amar. [read post]
30 Sep 2021, 7:07 pm
“Some Hard Thought-Experiment Questions for Both Sides of the Abortion Debate”: Law professors Vikram David Amar and Alan E. [read post]
27 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
The right of abortion is one of the most contentious political and legal issues in the United States today. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
Immediately prior to taking the position at Illinois in 2015, Amar served as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law. [read post]
9 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
Immediately prior to taking the position at Illinois in 2015, Amar served as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law. [read post]
3 Sep 2021, 11:40 am
by Neil H. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:00 pm
But they reject our characterization of the recall mechanism as involving two decisions: “[Amar and Caminker] want to treat each question on the ballot as a separate election and don’t want to compare the votes between the two questions on the ballots. [read post]
24 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
For this, and other more pragmatic reasons, we do not expect the Illinois Supreme Court (where any aggressive lower state court ruling would be appealed to in any event) to support doing anything but letting the revised district lines (if they be revised as we expect) go into effect.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law on the Urbana-Champaign campus. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
Amar and Caminker imply that the California Supreme Court ruled on the merits of the argument we raise, and that is not so.As for the substance of the argument by Amar and Caminker, the recall ballot is structured with two questions. [read post]
15 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
(Indeed, in Amar’s last column he discussed precisely that topic, in the context of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s frivolous recent litigative attempt to undo the lifetime ban on state officeholding imposed on him by the Illinois Senate after his impeachment process over a decade ago.)Consider another perfectly permissible device that functionally denies voters the opportunity to elect whomever they might want: term limits. [read post]
9 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
At the beginning of this month, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich filed suit pro se (that is, by himself rather than through a lawyer on his behalf) in federal district court in Chicago to block the implementation of the Illinois State Senate’s decision over a decade ago to ban him from holding any state or local public office in Illinois for the rest of his life. [read post]
6 Aug 2021, 10:20 am
AALS, Banning Critical Race Theory Is Censorship Vikram Amar (Dean, Illinois), Resuming In-person Law School Instruction in the Face of the Delta COVID-19 Variant Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 69 Law Schools Now Accept The GRE For Admissions Cornell Chronicle, Cornell Professor Donates A Kidney To His Colleague Scott Fruehwald (Legal... [read post]
2 Aug 2021, 9:27 am
Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois), Resuming In-person Law School Instruction in the Face of the Delta COVID-19 Variant: Logistical planning for the upcoming academic year (nearly upon us) at America’s law schools is unquestionably challenging given the evolving effect of, and public-health guidance relating to, the COVID-19 Delta variant. [read post]
1 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
Immediately prior to taking the position at Illinois in 2015, Amar served as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law. [read post]
21 Jul 2021, 6:01 am
Professors Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar have put forward an Intermediate View: the elected President is an "officer of the United States," but members of Congress are not. [read post]
16 Jul 2021, 8:00 am
“New Texas Abortion Statute Raises Cutting-Edge Questions Not Just About Abortion but About the Relationship Between State and Federal Courts”: Law professors Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone have this essay online at Justia’s Verdict. [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm
Last month, Texas adopted an anti-abortion statute that is noteworthy not so much for how it tries to deter abortions but for how it tries to deter legal challenges to the statute itself. [read post]
29 Jun 2021, 9:20 am
Vikram D. [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm
In this—the second—installment in our series on McConchie v. [read post]
