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5 Nov 2010, 10:33 pm
Balkin characterizes the Federal Reserve as an example what Sandy Levinson and he “call distributed dictatorship. [read post]
31 Jan 2010, 5:03 pm
[Update: Sandy Levinson weighs in, calling this a textbook example of unconstitutional conditions, the type that would outrage liberals if it were attached to, for example, NEA funds). [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 6:41 am
Earlier this week, in his Ideas column in the Boston Globe, Leon Neyfakh considered the possibility of a bipartisan executive, as well as other remedies that have been proposed for the dysfunction in our national government, including Sandy Levinson’s “Undemocratic Constitution” and the “unbundled executive” of Christopher Berry and Jacob Gersen. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 5:37 am
Sandy Levinson suggests the election is a "good thing," although he calls the October election in which Iowa voters unseated three Supreme Court justices as a response to the same-sex marriage decision "less good," at least from his political perspective. [read post]
28 Apr 2020, 6:30 am
***It is appropriate to begin with Sandy Levinson’s comment in this symposium because his extraordinary 1995 book on constitutional amendmentshowed me, for the first time, in 1998 or 1999, while I was still an undergraduate student at Yale, just how exciting studying constitutional amendment could be. [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 6:30 am
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]
19 Feb 2019, 2:34 pm
You should note as well that one of the panels is honoring the collective work of our colleague Gary Jacobsohn, a truly major figure in the field of comparative constitutional law.The entire program follows: The Future of Liberal… [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 2:13 pm
Panelists: Mickey Edwards, Bill Galston, Sandy Levinson, Tom Mann, Norman Ornstein, Alan Wolfe. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Wrestling with Religious Diversity, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 6:30 am
Jennifer Hochschild Like others in this series of posts, I start with Sandy Levinson’s publications on “our undemocratic Constitution. [read post]
9 Nov 2016, 4:07 am
A few days ago on the conlawprof listserv, Sandy Levinson asked what we should say to our students on Wednesday morning if Trump won. [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 7:56 am
Sandy Levinson, for one, has argued that we should consider adding such a feature to our Constitution, and in our essay on constitutional dictatorship, Sandy and I discussed how such a system might work.Trump's example shows the advantages of a system with a vote of no confidence over our current presidential system. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 9:43 am
Maybe Sandy Levinson himself comes close, but I don't think even he is a pure Cassandra pessimist. [read post]
7 May 2018, 7:09 am
Neily III Of course, there are numerous other excellent and influential books I might have mentioned by such well-known authors as John Hart Ely, Ronald Dworkin, Akhil Amar, James Ely, Bruce Ackerman, Richard Epstein, Barry Friedman, Richard Fallon, David Strauss, Jack Balkin, Sandy Levinson, James Fleming, Tom West and many more. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 10:14 am
Sandy Levinson pointed the way even earlier in 1989, with his articulation of "protestant constitutionalism" in Constitutional Faith. [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 7:12 pm
Sandy Levinson said...Frankly, one of the pathologies of our thinking is the belief that "dictators" are omnipotent (or, as I originally had written, omniscient) within their countries. [read post]
29 Dec 2013, 7:48 am
Speakers include Randy Barnett (Georgetown), David Law (Washington), Sandy Levinson (Texas), and, perhaps for comic relief, me. [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 9:13 pm
9:00 Opening Remarks 9:15-10:45 Panel One: Helene Landemore, DEMOCRATIC REASON: to be discussed by Dennis Thompson and Paul Woodruff 11-12:30 Panel Two: Jamie Kelly, FRAMING DEMOCRACY: A BEHAVIORAL APPROACH TO DEMOCRATIC THEORY: Joseph Fishkin and Jeffrey Friedman 2-3:30 Panel Three: Ilya Somin, DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL IGNORANCE: Heather Gerken and Sandy Levinson 3:45-5:15 Panel Four: General discussion on the… [read post]
7 May 2016, 12:52 pm
And because parties are key elements of our constitutional order, their continuous malfunction puts the legitimacy of that order into serious question.As Sandy Levinson has argued on this blog for a number of years, I think sometimes we tend to concentrate on the battles between the parties, on which party is at fault for what mess rather than looking at the broader picture of systemic failure. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 7:30 am
WhittingtonAs I recently noted, Repugnant Laws has now been published by the University Press of Kansas in its excellent Constitutional Thinking series edited by Sandy Levinson and Jeff Tulis. [read post]
