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8 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
In the space below and also in a subsequent column, I examine the Winner-Take-All approach to allocating electors and the legal claims against it.Background on the ComplaintThe recently filed Complaint—in which University of Texas Law Professor Sandy Levinson is a named plaintiff and in which noted trial attorney David Boies (who represented and did the oral argument for Al Gore in the famous Bush v. [read post]
20 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm
In addition to eliminating the possibility of a divisive prosecution, such a bipartisan gesture would appear more legitimate and might even begin to repair what this ugly campaign has broken.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]
1 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
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]
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]
4 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
In addition to reducing sarcastic comparisons between reaccreditation visits and certain locust/cicada infestations, this move seems a sensible step in the direction of focusing the ABA’s efforts on the relatively small number of law schools whose reaccreditation is open to any meaningful question.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]
11 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
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 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]
15 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm
§ 1373), but state attempts to regulate federal land sales are not likely to succeed.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]
17 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm
”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]
16 Nov 2017, 9:01 pm
Stay tuned.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 Dec 2023, 9:01 pm
But we must be careful to distinguish those kind of prudential arguments from the much more careless “removing an opposition candidate from the ballot, indeed, a candidate currently leading in some polling averages . . . . through the exercise of judicial power is [inherently] a remarkably antidemocratic act” language.That latter kind of language and reasoning undermines, rather than promotes, what democracy means in America’s distinctive constitutional system.Follow… [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
Legal educators should work hard to make sure the dangerous trends in the larger world do not undermine the careful training and habits of the mind that we seek to inculcate over three years, but that we hope will endure a lifetime.At a time when many of our institutions have fallen into disfavor among ordinary Americans, we are proud (and thankful, during this week of Thanksgiving), as a law dean and a law professor, to be training students for a profession that might be democracy’s last best… [read post]
25 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm
In Part One of this two-part discussion of Senate reform proposals, I shared some thoughts on the filibuster. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
Shortly before Christmas, the California State Bar released detailed data on the July 2015 bar exam results, and the information confirms some national patterns but also contains a few surprises. [read post]
12 May 2022, 9:01 pm
The state gas tax in Illinois had been slated, by laws passed before this year, to increase by 2.4 cents/gallon in about six weeks, on July 1, 2022. [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm
Two weeks ago the Republican Minority Leaders in both Houses of the Illinois legislature (known as the General Assembly), in their official capacity and as individual registered voters, brought suit in federal district court in McConchie v. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm
Over the past month or two, religious accommodation laws that have been enacted or proposed by states have attracted much attention in the media and among legal analysts. [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]
17 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm
The three recent pickups mean that 14 states (plus DC, which is not a state but which participates in the electoral college) have adopted; these 15 jurisdictions represent 189 electors—70% of the needed 270.In 2001, in some academic writings, my brother (and fellow law professor) Akhil Amar and I—and, separately, another law professor, Robert Bennett—laid out the intellectual foundations of this plan that would move the country close to having a national popular election… [read post]
