Akhil Reed Amar
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Akhil Reed Amar's Degrees
- Doctorate Law Yale University
- PhD Law Yale University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Akhil Reed Amar is an American legal scholar known for his expertise in constitutional law and criminal procedure. He holds the position of Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, and is an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University. In 2008, a Legal Affairs poll placed Amar among the top 20 contemporary American legal thinkers.
Akhil Reed Amar's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Bill of Rights : creation and reconstruction (2001) (122)
- The Bill of Rights as a Constitution (1991) (94)
- America's Constitution: A Biography (2005) (73)
- The Consent of the Governed: Constitutional Amendment Outside Article V (1994) (71)
- Choosing Representatives by Lottery Voting (1984) (68)
- Of Sovereignty and Federalism (1987) (45)
- The Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment (1992) (41)
- The Supreme Court, 1991 Term (1992) (38)
- FOURTH AMENDMENT FIRST PRINCIPLES (1994) (34)
- Philadelphia Revisited: Amending the Constitution Outside Article V (1988) (31)
- Five. Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Amendment (1995) (26)
- A Neo-Federalist View of Article III: Separating the Two Tiers of Federal Jurisdiction (1985) (25)
- The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles (1997) (24)
- America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (2012) (23)
- Fifth Amendment First Principles: The Self-Incrimination Clause (1995) (21)
- The Case of the Missing Amendments: R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul (1992) (20)
- JUDICIAL REVIEW AND NON-ENFORCEMENT AT THE FOUNDING (2014) (14)
- Forty Acres and A Mule - A Republican Theory of Minimal Entitlements (1990) (13)
- Reinventing Juries: Ten Suggested Reforms (1995) (12)
- Double Jeopardy Law Made Simple (1997) (11)
- The Document and the Doctrine (2000) (10)
- The Supreme Court, 1999 Term–Foreword: The Document and the Doctrine (2000) (9)
- Child Abuse As Slavery: A Thirteenth Amendment Response to DeShaney (1992) (9)
- The Two-Tiered Structure of the Judiciary Act of 1789 (1990) (9)
- The Bill of Rights (2017) (9)
- Is the Presidential Succession Law Constitutional (1995) (9)
- Women and the Constitution (1995) (8)
- Marbury, Section 13, and the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (1989) (8)
- For the People: What the Constitution Really Says About Your Rights (1998) (7)
- Our Forgotten Constitution: A Bicentennial Comment (1987) (7)
- Double Jeopardy Law After Rodney King (1995) (6)
- Bakke's Fate (1996) (6)
- Some New World Lessons for the Old World (1991) (6)
- Attainder and Amendment 2: Romer's Rightness (1996) (6)
- On Impeaching Presidents (1999) (5)
- Three Cheers (and Two Quibbles) for Professor Kennedy (1998) (5)
- A Constitutional Accident Waiting to Happen. (1995) (5)
- Jury Reform in America - a Return to the Old Country (1996) (5)
- Lottery Voting: A Thought Experiment (1995) (5)
- Executive Privileges and Immunities: The Nixon and Clinton Cases (1995) (5)
- A Few Thoughts on Constitutionalism, Textualism, and Populism (1997) (4)
- Plessy v. Ferguson and the Anti-Canon (2011) (4)
- Five Views of Federalism: Converse-1983 in Context (1994) (4)
- An Open Letter to Congressman Gingrich (1995) (4)
- Hugo Black and the Hall of Fame (2002) (4)
- Anti-Federalists, The Federalist Papers, and the Big Argument for Union (1993) (4)
- Civil Religion and Its Discontents (1989) (4)
- The Supreme Court, 1999 Term (2000) (4)
- The Lawfulness of Section 5 -- and Thus of Section 5 (2013) (4)
- Substance and Method in the Year 2000 (2001) (3)
- Applications and Implications of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment (2010) (3)
- The Fourth Amendment, Boston, and the Writs of Assistance (1996) (3)
- What Do We Talk about When We Talk about the Constitution (2013) (3)
- Dirty Harry and the Real Constitution (1997) (3)
- A search for justice in our genes. (2002) (3)
- Reports of My Death are Greatly Exaggerated: A Reply (1990) (2)
- Some Thoughts on the Electoral College: Past, Present, and Future (2007) (2)
- Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings (2012) (2)
- The Second Amendment as a Case Study in Constitutional Interpretation (2001) (2)
- Constitutional Redundancies and Clarifying Clauses (1998) (2)
- Some Opinions on the Opinion Clause (1996) (2)
- The Central Meaning of Republican Government: Popular Sovereignty, Majority Rule, and the Problem of the Denominator (1994) (2)
- The Inaugural Abraham Lincoln Lecture on Constitutional Law: Electoral College Reform, Lincoln-Style (2017) (2)
- Heller, HLR, and Holistic Legal Reasoning (2008) (2)
- Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap (1994) (2)
- 4. The Future of Constitutional Criminal Procedure (1996) (2)
- Textualism and the Bill of Rights (1998) (2)
- The Constitutional Virtues and Vices of the New Deal (1998) (2)
- Unlocking the jury box. (1996) (2)
- Abraham Lincoln and the American Union (2001) (1)
- Chief Justices and Chief Executives: Some Thoughts on Jim Simon's Books (2013) (1)
- America’s Constitution and the Yale School of Constitutional Interpretation (2006) (1)
- Presidential Privilege against Prosecution, The (1997) (1)
- The Fifty-Seventh Cleveland-Marshall Lecture: The Bill of Rights and Our Posterity (1994) (1)
- Akhil Amar and the (Premature?) Demise of Criminal Procedure Liberalism (1998) (1)
- A Tale of Three Wars: Tinker in Constitutional Context (2000) (1)
- The Constitution and Criminal Procedure (2017) (1)
- America’s Constitution, Written and Unwritten (2007) (1)
- The First Amendment's Firstness (2014) (1)
- Confrontation Clause First Principles: A Reply to Professor Friedman (1998) (1)
- President Quayle? (2013) (1)
- Foreword: Sixth Amendment First Principles (1996) (1)
- Bush, Gore, Florida, and the Constitution (2009) (1)
- Against Exclusion (Except to Protect Truth or Prevent Privacy Violations) (1997) (1)
- Reconstructing Double Jeopardy: Some Thoughts On the Rodney King Case (1995) (1)
- The Fifteenth Amendment and Political Rights (1996) (1)
- The Bill of Rights and Our Posterity (1994) (1)
- Reply: Self-Incrimination and the Constitution: A Brief Rejoinder to Professor Kamisar (1995) (1)
- Warren Court and the Constitution (with Special Emphasis on Brown and Loving), The (2014) (1)
- The New Regulation Allowing Federal Agents to Monitor Attorney-Client Conversations: Why it Threatens Fourth Amendment Values (2002) (1)
- Taking Article III Seriously: A Reply to Professor Friedman (1991) (1)
- Some Notes on the Establishment Clause (1996) (1)
- Lex Majoris Partis: How the Senate Can End the Filibuster on Any Day by Simple Majority Rule (2014) (1)
- The Creation and Reconstruction of the Bill of Rights (1992) (1)
- Opportunities for and Limitations of Private Ordering in Family Law (Symposium Roundtable) (1998) (1)
- Faculty Colloquia, Fall 2005 Series (2005) (0)
- America's Lived Constitution (2011) (0)
- Four. Searches, Seizures, and Takings (2017) (0)
- In Memory of Joe Goldstein (2001) (0)
- A Tribute to Larry Tribe (2007) (0)
- Review : The Constitution and Criminal Procedure : First Principles (2018) (0)
- Justice Kennedy and the Ideal of Equality (1997) (0)
- Some Comments on 'The Bill of Rights as a Constitution' (1992) (0)
- Tribute to Judge Guido Calabresi (2014) (0)
- The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic (2015) (0)
- Parity as a Constitutional Question (1991) (0)
- Regulating Opt-Out: An Economic Theory of Altering Rules (2020) (0)
- On Prosecuting Presidents (1999) (0)
- American Constitutionalism -- Written, Unwritten, and Living (2013) (0)
- Treaties as Contracts: Textualism, Contract Theory, and the Interpretation of Treaties (2020) (0)
- Becoming Lawyers in the Shadow of Brown (2000) (0)
- 1-1-1998 Three Cheers ( and Two Quibbles ) for Professor (2013) (0)
- 1-1-1984 Choosing Representatives by Lottery Voting (2013) (0)
- The Federalist Society 2016 National Lawyers Convention Showcase Panel II: Rules Versus Standards in Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation (2018) (0)
- Labor Pains in America's New Birth of Freedom: How the Reconstruction Amendments Were Enacted (2005) (0)
- INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW EDITION. (2018) (0)
- On Text and Precedent (2008) (0)
- Six. The Popular-Sovereignty Amendments (2017) (0)
- An Open Letter to Professors Paulsen and Powell (2006) (0)
- Race, Religion, Gender, and Interstate Federalism: Some Notes From History (1996) (0)
- Opening Remarks (2005) (0)
- The creation and reconstruction of the First Amendment (2016) (0)
- Second Thoughts.(the Meaning of the Second Amendment) (2002) (0)
- The Supreme Court's Unfree Speech: New York Times (2002) (0)
- Presidents Without Mandates (With Special Emphasis on Ohio) (1999) (0)
- CEO Compensation : “Agency Theory on Trial” (2019) (0)
- Eradicating Bush-League Arguments Root and Branch: The Article II Independent-State-Legislature Notion and Related Rubbish (2022) (0)
- 1-1-1988 Philadelphia Revisited : Amending the Constitution Outside Article (2013) (0)
- Continuing the Conversation (2020) (0)
- Remember the Thirteenth. (1993) (0)
- The Constitution Versus the Court: Some Thoughts on Hills on Amar (1999) (0)
- Foreword: Lord Camden Meets Federalism: Using State Constitutions to Counter Federal Abuses (1996) (0)
- Some Thoughts on Minimal Entitlements and the Thirteenth Amendment (1992) (0)
- The President, the Cabinet, and Independent Agencies (2010) (0)
- III Seriously : A Reply to Professor Friedman (2013) (0)
- Kentucky and the Constitution: Lessons from the 1790s for the 1990s (1997) (0)
- Using State Law to Protect Federal Constitutional Rights: Some Questions and Answers About Converse-1983 (1993) (0)
- In Praise of Bobbitt (1994) (0)
- On Lawson On Precedent (1994) (0)
- The People As Supreme Court: Some Incomplete Notes on Sager (1993) (0)
- Republicanism and Minimal Entitlements: Of Safety Valves and the Safety Net (1988) (0)
- How America’s Constitution Affirmed Freedom of Speech Even Before the First Amendment (2010) (0)
- An(other) Afterword on The Bill of Rights (1999) (0)
- The Lawfulness of Health-Care Reform (2011) (0)
- Response: Continuing the Conversation (1999) (0)
- Remapping the Criminal Procedure Universe (1997) (0)
- 1-1-2007 America ’ s Constitution , Written and Unwritten (2013) (0)
- Originalism and Political Ignorance (2019) (0)
- Opening remarks (1975) (0)
- An(other) Aft erword on The B ill of Rights (1999) (0)
- Civics 2000: Process Constitutionalism at Yale (1999) (0)
- TGB Black Logo 3 25.eps (1998) (0)
- Did the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporate The Bill of Rights Against States (1996) (0)
- Remember the Thir teenth (1993) (0)
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