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29 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
Notwithstanding some recent competition, the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) remains the most widely used and accepted standardized test considered by American law schools to admit new students to law school. [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 9:30 pm
Supreme Court Invented ‘Strict Scrutiny’ as a Result,” which appeared in the May 2023 issue of the Oklahoma Bar Journal.ICYMI: Vikram David Amar on Hylton v. [read post]
25 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
I am counsel of record in an amicus brief filed earlier this week on behalf of Professor Akhil Amar and myself, trying to provide an originalist answer to the questions the Court should be asking. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
Now that one U.S. [read post]
27 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
This is an important week for determining the fate of congressional district lines in the state of New Mexico. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:00 pm
Partisan gerrymandering, one of the subjects of the Supreme Court’s important ruling in June in the Moore v. [read post]
8 Sep 2023, 10:00 am
Vikram David Amar (UC-Davis), Is Higher Education Spending Excessive? [read post]
7 Sep 2023, 10:00 am
Vikram David Amar (UC-Davis), Is Higher Education Spending Excessive? [read post]
28 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
Two months ago, I wrapped up an eight-year stint as the Dean of the University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign and returned to “civilian” life as “just” a law professor. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
With questions about the health of U.S. [read post]
2 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
As the calendar turns from July to August, attention is properly beginning to focus on the Supreme Court’s upcoming term (even as there is still much to digest from what came down in June.) [read post]
27 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
As America seems to be figuratively coming apart at the seams, movements throughout the nation to accomplish literal (geopolitical) separation in various states and regions continue to gather supporters too. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 9:02 pm
Justices Thomas and Gorsuch did not embrace the majority’s views (which align tightly with the views Akhil Amar and I have advanced in many pieces of scholarship and in an amicus brief joined by Steven Calabresi). [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
A recent controversy over an invited-speaker event at the University of Pittsburgh (a public university in Pennsylvania known as “Pitt”) illustrates how both sides in free speech controversies at public universities seem to do and say untenable things, and also how the Supreme Court could improve matters by providing more clarity on key doctrinal and practical questions.The following factual contentions are drawn (and quote) from a demand letter sent to Pitt officials by the Alliance… [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 9:03 pm
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently handed down an important 2-1 ruling in a case involving changes in the admissions policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (“Thomas Jefferson” or “TJ”) in Alexandria, Virginia, a public STEM-focused school that has a selective admissions process and that has traditionally served high-performing students. [read post]
29 May 2023, 9:01 pm
A fast-moving lawsuit filed and ruled upon last week by a federal district judge highlights fundamental and recurring flaws in the judicial treatment of First Amendment freedom of expression, with plenty of blame to go around among various actors in our constitutional system.The dispute arose at Grand Valley High, a rural public high school about 45 miles from Grand Junction, Colorado. [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:01 pm
Like many other points of contention in modern America, the disagreement between the left and the right over raising the debt ceiling straddles constitutional law and politics. [read post]
15 May 2023, 9:01 pm
In the space below I offer some initial reactions to a bill that cleared the California Senate Judiciary Committee last month and that has been generating controversy, especially within parts of the South Asian community, in the Golden State. [read post]
11 May 2023, 9:00 pm
There are ever more stories in the news these days involving professors at public universities who seem to claim that university diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and programs are trampling the professors’ free speech rights. [read post]
4 May 2023, 9:01 pm
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]
