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7 May 2021, 11:27 am
The Year That Changed Everything By Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University Akhil Reed Amar argues that Charles Beard and other historians who wrote that the Founders created the Constitution to solidify their wealth and power fail to appreciate the great democratic thrust of the document and the true Founders’ motives, but notes that those who wrote the Constitution did make a tragic mistake: accepting slavery. [read post]
19 Mar 2021, 9:30 pm
Via Balkinization: Akhil Amar (Yale Law School) has started a podcast on "America's Constitution.Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers. [read post]
15 Mar 2021, 8:52 am
In connection with his highly anticipated new book, The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversations, 1760-1840 (the first volume in a trilogy), Akhil Amar has started a fantastic podcast called "Amarica's Constitution. [read post]
22 Feb 2021, 1:46 pm
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7 Feb 2021, 1:01 pm
[This post was co-authored by Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman] On Thursday, February 4, 2021, we discussed the First Amendment arguments in the House of Representatives' Managers' trial memorandum. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 12:05 pm
Following up on my earlier joint post today on the election cases (and now writing by myself), I want to flag the compelling essay Akhil Amar, Vik Amar and Neil Katyal published yesterday in The New York Times under the title "The Supreme Court Should Not Muck Around in State Election Laws. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court now filled, many are taking stock of her judicial legacy. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 8:16 am
“The Supreme Court Should Stay Out of State Election Law; Allowing federal courts to muck around with state election laws is dangerous and destabilizing”: Law professors Akhil Reed Amar, Vikram David Amar, and Neal Kumar Katyal have this essay online at The New York Times. [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 3:15 pm
Akhil Amar, for example, has literally written the book on how those amendments should change interpretation of the Bill of Rights. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
As readers of this series will no doubt recall, in 2012 the Supreme Court in National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) v. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
For the Balkinization Symposium on Alexander Keyssar, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 9:11 pm
" In 2004, Akhil Amar testified before Congress about the constitutionality of the Presidential Succession Act. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 4:24 pm
But under an alternate theory advanced by Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar, the Presidential Succession Act is unconstitutional. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 9:37 am
Yale scholar Akhil Reed Amar has written frequently on this subject. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 7:23 am
He's 86, and maybe he knows that, while he's okay hanging on as a Senator, he doesn't belong in the presidency.There is also a serious argument, first laid out by Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar and his brother, Vikram Amar, now dean of the University of Illinois College of Law, in a 1995 essay in the Stanford Law Review, that the Succession Act is unconstitutional. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 8:40 am
Constitution (Oxford 2013) Louis Michael Seidman, On Constitutional Disobedience (Oxford 2012) Fall 2012: Gerard Magliocca, John Bingham: America's Founding Son (NYU, 2013) (assigned ms) Akhil Reed Amar, America's Unwritten Constitution (Basic Books, 2012) John Inazu, Liberty's Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly (Yale 2012) Justice Antonin Scalia, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (West, 2012) Abner Greene, Against Obligation (Harvard 2012) Sandy… [read post]
1 Aug 2020, 8:00 am
The fact that most liberals today don't like originalism doesn't mean that in the future they won't be attracted to liberal originalist theories like mine.For many years now, people like me, my colleague Akhil Amar, and the folks at the Constitutional Accountability Center have been showing liberals and progressives why originalism is important to a progressive vision of the Constitution. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 8:36 am
President Trump continues to misuse the constitutional power to pardon. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 6:30 am
This seems to be the prevailing view from Michael McConnell, Akhil Amar, Jeffrey Rosen, Mark Movsesian, David French, and others. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 9:01 pm
As I have explained in many essays analyzing different nuances of this concept, the NPV plan—a version of which was seriously floated by a small number of people including me, my older brother Akhil Amar, and also (separately) Professor Robert Bennett over a decade-and-a-half ago—seeks to permit and encourage states to sign onto an agreement that would require each signatory state to cast its electoral college votes not for the candidate who necessarily garners the… [read post]
