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5 Nov 2010, 3:05 am by JB
Nice.In our recent essay on constitutional dictatorship Sandy Levinson and I offer Bernanke as an example of a distinctive and important feature of American government, what we call distributed dictatorship. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 9:43 am by Marc DeGirolami
  Maybe Sandy Levinson himself comes close, but I don't think even he is a pure Cassandra pessimist. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 3:15 am by Guest Blogger
His misdiagnosis also seems to influence Sandy Levinson’s unduly pessimistic view of the chances for reform. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 7:00 pm by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) In a post commenting on the controversy generated by our earlier exchange (see here and here), Sandy Levinson writes: It is obvious that contemporary libertarians are prone to blame individuals for most (even if .... not all) things that befall them; political liberals are far more likely to offer structuralist explanations that have the consequence of exempting individuals from “responsibility” for much of their fate. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 1:05 am by Ilya Somin
Sandy Levinson is a leading constitutional law scholar, and his work on the issues where he is an expert is almost always insightful and interesting. [read post]
16 Oct 2010, 7:18 am by Stephen Griffin
As Sandy Levinson has argued on this blog and in his book, we need to take a more critical stancein examining how the Constitution is connected with what has gone wrong in politics and policy. [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 7:30 am by JB
The contributors will be Stephen Gardbaum of UCLA, Sandy Levinson of Texas, and Stephen Griffin of Tulane. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 2:37 pm by Brian Tamanaha
As readers of this blog know, co-blogger Sandy Levinson believes that our national political institutions are broken and the Constitution is largely to blame. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 11:45 am by Howard Wasserman
Update, October 5: As I say, I was only channeling Sandy Levinson on this one. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 1:24 pm by JB
This is Sandy Levinson's and my notion of partisan entrenchment.If Rick is right that modern Presidents cannot easily punish the Supreme Court directly, how is it, he asks, that the Supreme Court can be more or less guaranteed to stay in touch with the values of the dominant national coalition? [read post]
25 Sep 2010, 8:27 am by Brian Leiter
My former colleague Sandy Levinson (Texas) comments. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 8:55 am by JB
Sandy Levinson is perhaps the greatest intellectual value investor in the American legal academy. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 6:18 am by Adam Chandler
In a post at Balkinization discussing when filibusters are justified, Sandy Levinson offers a critique of Senator Lindsey Graham’s explanation for why he will vote to confirm Elena Kagan. [read post]
24 Jul 2010, 12:53 pm by Paul Horwitz
Sandy Levinson calls the question of whether President Obama will nominate Elizabeth Warren as head of the new Consumer Protection Agency "an acid test as to whether the Obama Administration really does have backbone. [read post]
24 Jul 2010, 7:29 am by Jonathan H. Adler
  UT’s Sandy Levinson thinks this decision is an “acid-test” for the Administration: ” Both crass politics and the public interest make Elizabeth Warren the right person at the right time. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 2:30 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Liberal law professor Sandy Levinson writes that for himself and his fellow lefties that: For many of us, this is an acid test as to whether the Obama Administration really does have backbone, except when Rahm Emanuel wants to curse liberals for not being sufficiently "understanding" of the need to capitulate, again and again, to self-proclaimed "realities. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 4:07 pm by Ilya Somin
Outside the judiciary, leading liberal constitutional law scholars such as Akhil Amar, Jack Balkin, and Sandy Levinson have defended the idea that the Second Amendment protects an important individual right enforceable against all levels of government. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 9:18 am by Glenn Reynolds
” That includes people like Larry Tribe, and Sandy Levinson, whose 1992 Yale Law Journal essay, The Embarrassing Second Amendment, really kicked things off by signaling to the legal academy that it was okay to write about this. [read post]