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14 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
Debunking those ideas—not shouting them down or trying to suppress their expression—is what I want my students to learn how to do.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm
But legislatures and courts need to understand what the Twenty-Sixth Amendment says and means to prevent this invidious disparate treatment from continuing to affect election outcomes in future years.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law on the Urbana-Champaign campus. [read post]
25 Dec 2023, 9:01 pm
”Professor Lessig’s essay never returns to this “strong argument” to debunk it, making all the time and effort he spends on whether a sensible Section 3 could have intentionally excluded the President (which is beside the point if the President does hold office under the United States) the real puzzle.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is a Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law and a Professor of… [read post]
11 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm
Indeed, without “piling on” (the way our series of columns might have been understood to do) or being overly harsh in criticizing the past SG’s filings, more explanation could have demonstrated why this instance was (the unusual) one that justified a change in position, so as to deflect the perception that it’s just about sending a message of support for Obamacare.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and… [read post]
11 Sep 2019, 9:01 pm
Of course, the North Carolina Supreme Court could conceivably overrule the lower state courts’ understanding of North Carolina law, but it appears that the State Attorney General does not plan a state supreme court appeal, leaving Lewis as the final word on this matter, for now, in the state.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law on the… [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
As my co-author (Akhil Amar) and I elaborate in an Article forthcoming in The Supreme Court Review (a draft of which is available on SSRN here), four Justices, drawing on arguments advanced in the Bush v. [read post]
13 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
As I explained in the earlier Parts and in more depth in a co-authored article (with Akhil Amar) viewable on SSRN here, ISL theory is deeply flawed and unconvincing as a matter of original understandings (see Part One), the actions and intentions of state legislatures themselves, and recent Supreme Court case law (see Part Two).In today’s installment I want to look back a bit more at the Court’s decisions last week not to grant relief to the North Carolina and… [read post]
14 Sep 2022, 9:01 pm
And the other, Amar, has, as Dean, been on the hiring committee at Illinois for each of the past eight years, and for the several years prior to that on the hiring committee at the UC Davis Law School, a peer institution, as its Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. [read post]
28 Feb 2022, 9:00 pm
My series of columns here borrows heavily from a longer and much more thorough Article co-authored with Akhil Amar (my brother and fellow constitutional law professor) that forthcoming in The Supreme Court Review. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
One of the important Supreme Court cases currently being briefed (with oral argument set for March), Arizona Legislature v. [read post]
1 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
About a month ago I wrote an essay for this website commenting on the drop in bar passage rates in many states in the fall of 2014. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
One of the important Supreme Court cases currently being briefed (with oral argument set for March), Arizona Legislature v. [read post]
29 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
In my last column, I began analyzing SB 396, a laudable but legally questionable effort by the California legislature to repeal, by ordinary legislation, provisions of Proposition 187, a 1994 voter-enacted measure that imposed harsh restrictions on unlawful immigrants in the State, restrictions that have since been blocked indefinitely by a federal district court judge. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
Perhaps this could make the TJ case more like the Harvard dispute, which one of us (Amar) has argued could rightly be understood not necessarily as highlighting a problem with affirmative action generally, but instead with affirmative action plans that seek to burden Asians more than Whites. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 4:14 pm
(For more on all this, interested readers can scour a law review article I co-authored with Akhil Amar that is viewable here and slated to be published any day now.)All of these arguments, separately and together, are compelling. [read post]
7 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
I well understand that there are internal dynamics and politics within the Court, but when one side lays out its case in public writings and the other (much stronger) side does not, especially for an issue that is not going away, the public is not well served.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law on the Urbana-Champaign campus. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm
As my brother Akhil Amar and I wrote in the LA Times last week, imagine that Hillary Clinton wins and the Democrats also regain the Senate. [read post]
4 Jul 2022, 9:01 pm
” There is thus reason to hope Kavanaugh will do what (the Court in Bruen and Dobbs said) honorable originalists should do: pay attention to high-quality textual and historical scholarship—and be willing to revisit past instincts that may have been formed without full and careful consideration—in order to avoid (or rectify) “egregiously wrong” readings of the Constitution.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is… [read post]
4 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm
(Justices Alito and Gorsuch in their dissent cast the issue more broadly, to include not just the Electors Clause of Article II, but also the Elections Clause of Article I, which contains similar language with regard to congressional elections as distinguished from presidential elector selection.)One of us (Vikram Amar) has elsewhere argued that the Republican Party’s theory here—that the federal Constitution frees state legislatures from state judicial review to… [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 9:01 pm
And deans need to be aware of what the students think is going right in law school, and what students think is lacking.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
