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26 Apr 2008, 10:02 am
Fleming, Securing Constitutional Democracy (2006)Mark Graber, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (2006)Sanford Levinson, Our Undemocratic Constitution (2006)Walter F. [read post]
16 Feb 2008, 9:05 pm
"--Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It)"Michael Gerhardt's sophisticated and subtle book is the definitive treatment of how precedent really works in constitutional law. [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 7:10 am
Estrich, Sanford Levinson, Michael W. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 7:59 am
See Glenn Greenwald’s The Lawless Surveillance State See also Jack Balkin and Sanford Levinson in their paper The Processes of Constitutional Change: From Partisan Entrenchment to the National Surveillance State [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 12:40 pm
On this view, the apparently supportive views of "liberal academics" -- including Sanford Levinson, Akhil Amar, Lawrence Tribe -- have been crucial in legitimating the individual rights position. [read post]
3 Dec 2007, 6:17 am
Professors Jack Balkin (Yale) and Sanford Levinson (U of Texas) have posted "Law and the Humanities: An Uneasy Relationship" (Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 121; U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 109, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities Vol. 18, p. 155, 2006) on SSRN. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 6:06 am
Both Rich and Khare also note the classic weaknesses of liberal constitutionalism - that it is prone to being misguided by populism, and that it relies too much on the hope that the sense of outrage of the masses will result in corrective action (which, in some cases, results in overly delayed and tame responses).In a blog post reacting to Rich's piece, American constitutional scholar Sanford Levinson argues that Rich, like other commentators, fails to ask the more fundamental… [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 7:50 am
Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas Law School asserted in a recent book, is open to debate. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 5:52 am
Greenhouse cites several books and articles, including UT law professor Sanford Levinson's "Our Undemocratic Constitution". [read post]
23 Jun 2007, 3:18 pm
And from the blurbs:"An absolutely superb presentation of a "Dworkinian" approach to constitutional interpretation" -Sanford Levinson, W. [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 10:48 am
Professor Balkin's impressive article correctly sees the United States Constitution as the central icon in a civic religion capable of evoking redemptive action by its citizens -- Sanford Levinson's constitutional faith. [read post]
20 May 2007, 8:56 am
Balkin writes: Both we [Balkin and his co-theorist Sanford Levinson] and Ackerman agree that if the public keeps returning a party to the White House, eventually this will result in changes in constitutional doctrine. [read post]
10 May 2007, 2:07 pm
Scholars who worry about whether the constitution is failing the people might also worry about whether we as a people are failing the constitution.As Professor Sanford Levinson famously points out in Our Undemocratic Constitution, prominent constitutional institutions were designed to secure ends most contemporary Americans regard as abhorrent. [read post]
7 May 2007, 7:12 am
" "Several other liberal constitutional scholars, notably Akhil Reed Amar at Yale and Sanford Levinson at the University of Texas, are in broad agreement favoring an individual rights interpretation. [read post]
22 Apr 2007, 9:09 pm
PENNumbra has a debate on the Electoral College: Professor Sanford Levinson, of the University of Texas Law School, argues that true believers in majority rule should find it insufferable that the United States still employs a â [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 8:20 pm
Before I tell you why I think so, let me excerpt part of a fascinating discussion that was held by Law Professors Sanford Levinson and Jack Balkin on just that issue: As already suggested, though, my concerns about Roe, and whether the Democratic Party should continue to expend a great deal of political capital on keeping it on the books, have less to do with specifically legal concerns--i.e., what constitutes the best interpretation of the Constitution? [read post]
16 Mar 2007, 9:35 pm
Sanford Levinson's ruminations on writing a better Constitution, which entail some very serious thinking on the democratic processes enshrined in our Founding document, Ezra Klein, an always interesting and almost always smart writer, misses the point imo. [read post]