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24 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm
It is often (and rightly) said today that there are many people and forces working to divide America. [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm
A person (including an Asian American) can rationally support valid affirmative action, but righteously complain if it is being implemented in a way that imposes unjustified costs on Asian groups, in order to spare whites from bearing their fair share.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]
26 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
Although for my money the big news of the week has been the resurrection of efforts by Republicans in the U.S. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
In what some commentators believe is one of the most important cases of the Supreme Court’s recently concluded term, Matal v. [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
So whether or not a broader executive privilege should have been recognized by the Court, Richard Nixon should not have benefitted from it, in the same way that other privileges do not protect persons engaged in ongoing criminality.That said, as commentators such as Akhil Amar have observed, there are aspects of the Court’s reasoning that don’t hold up well to careful scrutiny. [read post]
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]
31 May 2017, 9:01 pm
As I have written in a number of columns analyzing various aspects of the NPV movement, the essential idea—a version of which was seriously floated by a small number of people including me, my older brother (Akhil Amar), and also (separately) by Professor Robert Bennett over a decade ago—seeks to permit and encourage various states to sign onto an agreement that would require each signatory state to cast its electoral college votes not for the candidate who garners a… [read post]
18 May 2017, 9:01 pm
Although I had planned to write on another subject this week, recent and fast-moving events warrant attention to the topic of impeachment, a process more and more commentators (and some legislators on Capitol Hill) have been mentioning. [read post]
4 May 2017, 9:01 pm
And if changes in legal education (which, though gradual, might have reached some tipping points) are contributing to the low pass rates, law schools need to deal with them promptly and forcefully.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]
20 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm
When state and local governments create policy discriminating against federal contractors, they are not simply withholding assistance to the feds, but instead are affirmatively trying to make it harder for the feds to find third parties to implement national programs.More generally, I think whether we are talking presidential election reform or federal-state relations, we should always remember that the rules and doctrines we forge must apply equally well regardless of which political party or… [read post]
6 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm
Three days before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, Summer Zervos—a woman who had participated on Mr. [read post]
23 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm
One of the vexing legal questions raised by President Trump’s original and revised executive orders concerning entry into the United States by nationals of several Middle Eastern and African countries is whether and how courts ought to take into account the subjective motives behind the executive order, whether or not these motives are reflected in the text of the orders themselves. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm
Legal magazines have recently been reporting on a spate of legislative proposals in various states that seek, albeit in different ways, to give legislatures increased power to interpret and implement the Constitution in the face of judicial rulings with which the legislators may disagree. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm
., we ought not waste time on any hearing.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]
10 Feb 2017, 12:50 pm
VIKRAM DAVID AMAR AND MICHAEL SCHAPS With many eyes this week on the Ninth Circuit litigation challenging President Trump’s Executive Order regulating entry into the U.S. by nationals of seven Middle Eastern and African countries, less noticed but potentially as important is a separate lawsuit (San Francisco v. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm
With many eyes this week on the Ninth Circuit litigation challenging President Trump’s Executive Order regulating entry into the U.S. by nationals of seven Middle Eastern and African countries, less noticed but potentially as important is a separate lawsuit (San Francisco v. [read post]
26 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
Philadelphia’s mayor signed into law this week a measure that prohibits employers in the city from asking job applicants to provide their past salary data, something supporters of the ordinance hope will help reduce the wage gap between men and women.The theory appears to be that if women’s wages currently lag men’s for illegitimate reasons, and if employers base new starting salaries in any significant measure on salary histories (which in turn would be affected by improperly low… [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
Of course, Wilson won reelection so the plan never went into effect.But perhaps it is time to revisit Wilson’s idea from 100 years ago, and consider it—or something like it that makes use of the Twenty-fifth Amendment passed 50 years ago—for future presidential elections in which transitional time is of the essence.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of… [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm
Proposals like the TRUMP Act convince me all the more of the importance of federal legislation in this realm if and when states making up 270 or more electors sign onto the NPV plan.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]
14 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
