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I have no problem with that idea, which enjoys widespread (though certainly not universal) support from legal scholars on different sides of the political spectrum, such as Sanford Levinson on the left, and Steve Calabresi on the right. [read post]

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[Ilya Somin] Reforming Democracy

12 Mar 2019, 1:55 pm by Ilya Somin

Prominent constitutional law scholar Sanford Levinson (University of Texas) argues for making it easier to amend the Constitution, including by adopting a system of regular constitutional conventions (perhaps every 25 years), as exists in several states for revising their state constitutions. [read post]

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The Future of Liberal Democracy

19 Feb 2019, 2:34 pm by Sandy Levinson

9:00am-10:45amChair: William Forbath (Texas)Samuel Issacharoff (NYU)Scot Peterson (Oxford)Mark Tushnet (Harvard)Mila Versteeg (Virginia) Session VI: Constitutional Replacement by Constitutional Amendment11:00am-12:45pmChair: Sergio Verdugo (Universidad del Desarrollo – Chile)Carlos Bernal (Constitutional Court of Colombia)John Dinan (Wake Forest)Rosalind Dixon (Australia, University of New South Wales)Sanford Levinson (Texas) [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

[David Kopel] Do Some Courts Underenforce the Second Amendment?

27 Dec 2018, 7:24 am by David Kopel

Other articles in the symposium were by Michael Dorf (pondering former Justice Stevens' proposal to repeal the Second Amendment); Sanford Levinson (criticizing the Supreme Court's "Sphinx-like inscrutability" on important post-Heller issues, including the federal ban on arms possession by illegal aliens); Darrell A.H. [read post]

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Of Constitutions and Concertos

19 Dec 2018, 3:30 am by Michael B. Coenen

Toh is by no means the first scholar to have observed the connection between the two pursuits: Jerome Frank, Richard Posner, Sanford Levinson and Jack Balkin, and others have noted and analyzed the shared nature of the challenges that judges and musicians confront. [read post]

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Erman's "Almost Citizens"

3 Dec 2018, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst

”Sanford Levinson - author of An Argument Open to All: Reading “The Federalist” in the 21st Century [read post]

Legal History Blog - http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/

Book Talk: Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies, Wednesday, November 14 at noon

7 Nov 2018, 6:41 am by June Casey

Sanford Levinson is the W. [read post]

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Symposium on Jonathan Gienapp, The Second Creation

15 Oct 2018, 7:50 am by JB

This week and next at Balkinization we are hosting a symposium on Jonathan Gienapp's new book, The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (Belknap Press 2018).We have assembled a terrific group of commentators, including Will Baude (Chicago), Mark Graber (Maryland), Steve Griffin (Tulane), Alison LaCroix (Chicago), Sanford Levinson (Texas), Gerard Magliocca (Indiana), Bernadette Meyler (Stanford), John Mikhail (Georgetown), Christina Mulligan… [read post]

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