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6 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
As my co-author (Akhil Amar) and I discuss in an Article forthcoming in The Supreme Court Review (a draft of which is available on SSRN here), recent attention concerning ISL theory may have been generated by members of the Supreme Court itself; four Justices, drawing on arguments advanced in the Bush v. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
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]
1 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
As my co-author (Akhil Amar) and I explain in great detail in an Article forthcoming in The Supreme Court Review (a draft of which is available on SSRN here), the ISL theory has its “modern” origins in the Bush v. [read post]
28 Feb 2022, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
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]
31 Jan 2022, 6:00 am by Josh Blackman
Professors Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar have put forward an Intermediate View: the elected President is an "officer of the United States," but members of Congress are not. [read post]
22 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
About three weeks ago, on November 5, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), invoking its statutory authority, issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that provides that every U.S. employer with 100 or more employees must “develop, implement, and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy” for workers, and require any workers who remain unvaccinated to undergo weekly testing and wear a face mask. [read post]
30 Sep 2021, 7:07 pm by Howard Bashman
“Some Hard Thought-Experiment Questions for Both Sides of the Abortion Debate”: Law professors Vikram David Amar and Alan E. [read post]
The right of abortion is one of the most contentious political and legal issues in the United States today. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
But we need be careful not to focus on the work of the drafters at the Philadelphia Convention in a way that obscures the grievous imperfections in their work product, or (more happily) the ways in which Americans have worked hard (and sacrificed so much) in the two centuries since to correct those imperfections, an enterprise that continues to this day.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at… [read post]
9 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Relatedly, even though the specifics of a reform package need to be worked out, legislative leaders in California should proclaim publicly on Monday of next week, before anyone knows the fate of Gavin Newsom or his would-be successors, that a significant set of reforms will be forthcoming, so as to minimize the perception that reformers want to make changes only if their candidate loses under the current rules.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David… [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar and Evan Caminker
But they reject our characterization of the recall mechanism as involving two decisions: “[Amar and Caminker] want to treat each question on the ballot as a separate election and don’t want to compare the votes between the two questions on the ballots. [read post]
24 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
For this, and other more pragmatic reasons, we do not expect the Illinois Supreme Court (where any aggressive lower state court ruling would be appealed to in any event) to support doing anything but letting the revised district lines (if they be revised as we expect) go into effect.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]
23 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm by Aaron Edlin and Erwin Chemerinsky
As such, the procedures used for the election deprive voters who favor Newsom of equal protection by violating a central principle of democracy—the one-person, one-vote principle, articulated by the Supreme Court under Warren.Vikram David Amar and Evan Caminker disagree. [read post]
15 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Evan Caminker
(Indeed, in Amar’s last column he discussed precisely that topic, in the context of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s frivolous recent litigative attempt to undo the lifetime ban on state officeholding imposed on him by the Illinois Senate after his impeachment process over a decade ago.)Consider another perfectly permissible device that functionally denies voters the opportunity to elect whomever they might want: term limits. [read post]
9 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
At the beginning of this month, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich filed suit pro se (that is, by himself rather than through a lawyer on his behalf) in federal district court in Chicago to block the implementation of the Illinois State Senate’s decision over a decade ago to ban him from holding any state or local public office in Illinois for the rest of his life. [read post]
2 Aug 2021, 9:27 am by Paul Caron
Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois), Resuming In-person Law School Instruction in the Face of the Delta COVID-19 Variant: Logistical planning for the upcoming academic year (nearly upon us) at America’s law schools is unquestionably challenging given the evolving effect of, and public-health guidance relating to, the COVID-19 Delta variant. [read post]
1 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Immediately prior to taking the position at Illinois in 2015, Amar served as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law. [read post]
21 Jul 2021, 6:01 am by Josh Blackman
Professors Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar have put forward an Intermediate View: the elected President is an "officer of the United States," but members of Congress are not. [read post]