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22 Oct 2024, 5:00 am
How fragile is the United States' Constitution? [read post]
17 Aug 2024, 2:01 pm by Mark Tushnet
I know there's some discussion of the non-unitary executive (Sandy Levinson and others have done stuff on this) and some on nonpartisan districting commissions, but not, I think, much on the idea of creating an independent electoral management body for state-level elections even as there's heightened attention to the risks that partisan election management poses.Maybe the problem is that a "democracy agenda" of constitutional revision is too obviously a… [read post]
8 Aug 2024, 11:11 am by Guest Blogger
Sandy Levinson John Mikhail has written a wonderful (in every sense of the word) review of Alison LaCroix’s pathbreaking reminder of the importance of what she calls “the interbellum Constitution,” i.e., the Constitution that developed following the War of ! [read post]
5 Jul 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  So I follow Lessig and Pozen in holding not only that apportioned delegates should be chosen in special elections, and they should not be identified with political parties on the ballots – although I am open to Levinson’s suggestion to select delegates from each state by lottery from a qualified pool of citizens, as long as they could each take one non-voting expert with them (compare Vile p.140). [read post]
4 Jul 2024, 1:06 pm by Randy E. Barnett
Since 2005, I have assigned 95 books by 87 authors, with James Fleming, Sandy Levinson, Gerard Magliocca, Eric Segall, Dan Farber, Philip Hamburger, Kim Roosevelt, and David Bernstein each making more than 1 appearances. [read post]
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]