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20 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Paul Caron
Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois) & Jason Mazzone (Illinois), What Law Students Should Take Away from the Stanford Law School Controversy Involving Disruption of a Federal Judge’s Speech: Part One in a Series: National attention has recently been directed to the boisterous protest by Stanford Law School (SLS) students at... [read post]
16 Apr 2023, 9:02 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
But for a recent example of the problems that arise when people speak before thinking these issues through, see this prior column that one of us (Amar) wrote.4. [read post]
10 Apr 2023, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
National attention has recently been directed to the boisterous protest by Stanford Law School (SLS) students at a Federalist Society Event featuring Judge Kyle Duncan, a conservative Trump-appointed judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. [read post]
20 Mar 2023, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In the summer of 2021, the Missouri governor signed into law the state’s so-called “Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA),” whose preamble (a section styled as “findings”) declares that the “supremacy” of federal law “does not extend to various federal statutes, executive orders, [etc., that regulate firearms and ammunition in various ways]. [read post]
10 Mar 2023, 10:00 am by Scott Fruehwald
David Rosenberg College of Law) (Feb. 2023) Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois), Some Thoughts on the Recent Controversies Concerning... [read post]
6 Mar 2023, 12:10 am by Paul Caron
Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois), Some Thoughts on the Recent Controversies Concerning Law (and Med) School Rankings: Part I in a Series: [T]here is no doubt that certain specific aspects of U.S. [read post]
1 Mar 2023, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In my last column, Part One in this series, I offered some observations about the increasingly loud and frequent criticisms of the US News rankings systems for law (and medical) schools that have been voiced in recent months by some of the nation’s best-known (and generally most highly rated) professional schools themselves. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
Prominent rankings of institutions Americans care about are invariably controversial. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
The latest filing in the Supreme Court’s biggest pending case is a perfect illustration of how not to do serious originalism.The case, Moore v. [read post]
8 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission), Akhil Amar explored the more general phenomenon of words and phrases that recur in the Constitution. [read post]
As Amar put it, “‘[e]mpower’ does not mean ‘require;’ rather, it means to create the power to do or not do something” (emphasis in original). [read post]
16 Oct 2022, 9:02 pm by Vikram David Amar
(For more background on these, and many other, reasons why ISL has no merit, readers can consult a recent law review article I co-wrote with my brother Professor Akhil Amar that was published four months ago. [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
And membership changes have continued to influence doctrinal developments in fundamental areas of constitutional law: When one of us (Amar) graduated from law school in 1988, the Court was deferential to exercises of federal power. [read post]
16 Sep 2022, 9:30 pm by ernst
  Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone respond to Erwin Chemerinsky on originalism (Verdict). [read post]
14 Sep 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
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]
11 Sep 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
The past term at the Supreme Court will certainly be known for the Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. [read post]