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18 Mar 2024, 8:10 am by Steven D. Schwinn
Check out the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Spring 2024, essays on law and democracy: Jud Campbell, Four Views of the Nature of the Union Sandy Levinson, Templates of American Democracy for the 21st Century: The Importance of... [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Although all of the eminent commentators—Bruce Cain, Wilfred Codrington, Alex Keyssar, Sandy Levinson, Derek Muller, Dan Tokaji, Michael Waldman, and Emily Zhang— have many positive things to say about this book, a constitutional amendment, and my work more generally (and for that I am grateful), there’s a definite Goldilocksian problem: I am either too bold in my proposals, or too naïve about the possibility of change in our hyperpolarized political era, or… [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 8:16 am by Rick Hasen
Sandy Levinson in the symposium on my book, A Real Right to Vote: So Hasen’s latest book is his latest exercise of warning the American public about the deficiencies of our electoral system and calling on us to engage in… Continue reading The post Sandy Levinson in Balkinization Symposium: “Do We Need Audacity Instead of Measured Prudence? [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 6:00 am by JB
Bruce Cain (Stanford), Wilfred Codrington III (Brooklyn), Alex Keyssar (Harvard), Sandy Levinson (Texas), Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Daniel Tokaji (Wisconsin), Michael Waldman (NYU - Brennan Center), and Emily Rong Zhang (Berkeley)At the conclusion, Rick will respond to the commentators. [read post]
28 Dec 2023, 6:11 am by Rick Hasen
For almost two decades now, Sandy Levinson has been advocating a constitutional convention as a means to reconsider and revamp the Constitution’s most pernicious structural… Continue reading The post “A New, and Old, Approach to Constitutional Conventions” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
16 Dec 2023, 9:36 am by David Pozen
For almost two decades now, Sandy Levinson has been advocating a constitutional convention as a means to reconsider and revamp the Constitution’s most pernicious structural features. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
This was the plan but the whole undertaking was accompanied by an understanding that the participants (David Rasmussen, Ken Baynes, Andrew Koppelman and Rainer Forst in the first, Karl Klare, Steve Winter, Dennis Davis, and David Dyzenhaus in the second, Dieter Grimm, Sandy Levinson, Linda McClain, Jim Fleming and Oliver Gerstenberg in the third, and Rosalind Dixon, Alessandro Ferrara and Neil Walker in the fourth) were free to cross lanes, so as to engender a lively open… [read post]
26 Aug 2023, 12:26 pm by Mark Graber
  Sandy Levinson and others think the constitutional bar on persons born abroad creates second-class citizens. [read post]
17 Aug 2023, 8:55 am by Jonathan H. Adler
This paper is "highly recommended" by Larry Solum, as is this competing view offered by Jack Balkin and Sandy Levinson. [read post]
9 Aug 2023, 8:46 am by JB
Sandy Levinson and I have posted a draft of our latest essay, Frederick Douglass as Constitutionalist, on SSRN. [read post]
9 Jul 2023, 6:30 am by JB
Sandy Levinson, Martin Loughlin on taming the judiciary (and ending the interpretation wars)7. [read post]
6 Jul 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Martin Loughlin,  Against Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2022).Martin Loughlin Since one purpose in publishing Against Constitutionalism (AC) with Harvard was to maximise the chance of it being read by American constitutional scholars, I cannot be other than delighted with the reviews. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  Fetishizing obscure bits of text with methods inaccessible to ordinary citizens makes the problem much worse, and lends what is already a juristocracy a quasi-religious sort of authority whose fundamentally antidemocratic nature Sandy Levinson has fruitfully explored. [read post]
28 Jun 2023, 10:00 am by JB
We have assembled a terrific group of commentators, including Yasmin Dawood (Toronto), Joey Fishkin (UCLA), Paul Gowder (Northwestern), Mark Graber (Maryland), Sandy Levinson (Texas), Julie Suk (Fordham), and myself.At the conclusion, Martin will respond to the commentators. [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 6:30 am by JB
Sandy Levinson, Christian Fritz on The Continuing Mysteries (and Challenges) of Constitutional Politics in a Federal System3. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Sandy Levinson is surely correct that James Madison left much to be desired as a constitutional theorist, throwing out ideas that he did not fully explain or develop. [read post]
14 Jun 2023, 6:00 am by JB
We have assembled a terrific group of commentators, including Jessica Bulman-Pozen (Columbia), Mark Graber (Maryland), Alison LaCroix (Chicago), Sandy Levinson (Texas), Grace Mallon (Oxford), Edward Purcell (New York Law School), and David Schwartz (Wisconsin).At the conclusion, Chris will respond to the commentators. [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
”  My former colleague, Sandy Levinson, has contributed enormously to our study of deep constitutional failure. [read post]