Vikram Amar
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American legal scholar
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Constitutional Law
#65
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#72
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#52
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#2001
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#2378
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#889
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Vikram Amar's Degrees
- Bachelors Political Science University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Vikram David Amar is an American legal scholar focusing on constitutional law, federal courts, and civil and criminal procedure. In August 2015, he became dean of the University of Illinois College of Law and the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law.
Vikram Amar's Published Works
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Published Works
- Jury Service as Political Participation Akin to Voting (1995) (40)
- Indirect Effects of Direct Election: A Structural Examination of the Seventeenth Amendment (1996) (11)
- Is the Presidential Succession Law Constitutional (1995) (9)
- American Civil Procedure: A Guide to Civil Adjudication in US Courts (2009) (7)
- Global Perspectives on Constitutional Law (2008) (6)
- Adventures in Direct Democracy: The Top Ten Constitutional Lessons from the California Recall Experience (2004) (5)
- Death, Grief, and Freedom of Speech: Does the First Amendment Permit Protection Against the Harassment and Commandeering of Funeral Mourners? (2011) (5)
- From Watergate to Ken Starr: Potter Stewart's 'Or of the Press' A Quarter Century Later (1999) (4)
- The Case for Reforming Presidential Elections by Subconstitutional Means: The Electoral College, the National Popular Vote Compact, and Congressional Power (2011) (4)
- Equal Protection, Unequal Political Burdens, and the CCRI (1996) (4)
- Constitutional Law, Cases and Materials (2017) (3)
- The Impeachment and Trial of President Clinton: A Review (1999) (3)
- The Senate and the Constitution (1988) (3)
- Constitutional Sunsetting?: Justice O'Connor's Closing Comments in Grutter (2003) (3)
- Of Hobgoblins and Justice O'Connor's Jurisprudence of Equality (2001) (3)
- Unlocking the jury box. (1996) (2)
- The Voracious First Amendment: Alvarez and Knox in the Context of 2012 and Beyond (2012) (2)
- Are Statutes Constraining Gubernatorial Power to Make Temporary Appointments to the United States Senate Constitutional Under the Seventeenth Amendment (2008) (2)
- The First Amendment, freedom of speech: its constitutional history and the contemporary debate (2009) (2)
- Adarand Constructors v. Pena (2008) (2)
- A Close-Up, Modern Look at First Amendment Academic Freedom Rights of Public College Students and Faculty (2017) (2)
- The People Made Me Do it: Can the People of the States Instruct and Coerce Their State Legislatures in the Article V Constitutional Amendment Process? (2000) (2)
- Towards a More Explicit, Independent, Consistent and Nuanced Compelled Speech Doctrine (2019) (1)
- Converse Section 1983 Suits in Which States Police Federal Agents: An Idea Whose Time Has Arrived (2004) (1)
- How Much Protection Do Injunctions Against Enforcement of Allegedly Unconstitutional Statutes Provide (2004) (1)
- Bush v. Gore and Article II: Pressured Judgment Makes Dubious Law (2001) (1)
- The Hybrid Nature of Political Rights (1998) (1)
- California Democratic Party v. Jones (2008) (1)
- Recent Cases: The Equal Protection Challenge to Proposition 209 (1998) (1)
- President Quayle? (2013) (1)
- Reasonable Accommodations Under the ADA (2002) (1)
- The NCAA as Regulator, Litigant and State Actor (2011) (1)
- Why Old and New Arguments for the Electoral College Are Not Compelling (2004) (1)
- Is Honesty the Best (Judicial) Policy in Affirmative Action Cases? Fisher v. University of Texas Gives the Court (Yet) Another Chance to Say Yes (2012) (1)
- How Senate Confirmation Hearings Should Better Educate Senators and the American Public: The Instructional Necessity of Case-Specific Questioning (2010) (1)
- Of Hobgoblins and Equality: The Equal Protection Vision of Justice O'Connor (2001) (1)
- The Vice Presidency in Five (Sometimes)Easy Pieces (2017) (1)
- The Court and the Schools in the 2006 Term (2007) (1)
- Some Questions and Answers Concerning Justice Blackmun in Federalism and Separation of Powers Cases (1998) (1)
- The New Regulation Allowing Federal Agents to Monitor Attorney-Client Conversations: Why it Threatens Fourth Amendment Values (2002) (1)
- Can Initiatives Be Used to Regulate the Manner of Selecting Presidential Electors, and Can Initiative Proponents Defend in Federal Court? (2013) (0)
- Federalism Friction in the First Year of the Trump Presidency (2018) (0)
- How shocked, or pleased, would the Founding Fathers be with America today?: Reviewing Juan Williams, 'We the People' (2016) (0)
- The Constitution and Juries (1999) (0)
- AN OVERVIEW OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF PUBLIC COLLEGE STUDENTS Describing the scope and meaning of the academic freedom of public university students is a daunting task (2019) (0)
- FIRST-YEAR COURSES SECOND-AND THIRD-YEAR COURSES (0)
- Why the Case for Amending the U.S. Constitution to Prohibit or Regulate Gay Marriage is 'Not Proved' (2005) (0)
- Panel IV: The NCAA and Constitutional Law (2010) (0)
- May the Attorney General Sanction Physicians Who Comply with Oregon's Death with Dignity Act? (2005) (0)
- A Comparative Analysis of the Academic Freedom of Public University Professors (2016) (0)
- What's Wrong with the Modern Jury (2005) (0)
- Why I Can't Be Like Mike - At Least with Respect to His Overly Broad View of Presidential Power to Act on Independent Constitutional Interpretation (2018) (0)
- Conduct Unbecoming a Coordinate Branch: The Supreme Court in Garrett (2001) (0)
- Reviewing Associational Freedom Claims in a Limited Public Forum: An Extension of the Distinction between Debate Dampening and Debate Distorting State Action (2010) (0)
- When Does a Plaintiff Have Standing to Challenge Religious Displays on Public Land (2009) (0)
- Federal Practice and Procedure, Jurisdiction (2006) (0)
- Foreword: Symposium on Developments in Free Speech Doctrine (1996) (0)
- 'Clarifying' Murphy’s Law: If Something Can Go Wrong (in Reconciling Commandeering and Conditional Preemption Doctrines), Did it? (2018) (0)
- Why the Case in Favor of a Federal Constitutional Amendment to Prohibit or Regulate Gay Marriage is 'Not Provided' (2005) (0)
- Business and Constitutional Originalism in the Roberts Court (2009) (0)
- Revisiting Grutter and its Diversity Rationale: A Few Reactions to Professor Blumstein's Critique (2012) (0)
- Eradicating Bush-League Arguments Root and Branch: The Article II Independent-State-Legislature Notion and Related Rubbish (2022) (0)
- Must Parental Notification Laws Contain a Health Exception (2005) (0)
- The Cheney Decision --- A Missed Chance to Straighten Out Some Muddled Issues (2004) (0)
- The Role of the People in Presidential Impeachment (1999) (0)
- When Avoiding Federal Questions Shouldn't Evade Federal Review (2009) (0)
- Standing Up for Direct Democracy: Who Can Be Empowered Under Article III to Defend Initiatives in Federal Court? (2014) (0)
- A First Amendment Feast, or Perhaps a Smorgasbord, During the 2010 Term (2011) (0)
- State Constitutional Change: Traditions, Trends, and Theory (2016) (0)
- California Constitutional Conundrums -- State Constitutional Quirks Exposed by the Same-Sex Marriage Experience (2009) (0)
- The Many Ways to Prove Discrimination (2003) (0)
- The New 'New Federalism': The Supreme Court in Hibbs (and Guillen) (2003) (0)
- Some Questions about Perfectionist Rationality Review (1994) (0)
- Reflections on the Doctrinal and Big-Picture Issues Raised by the Constitutional Challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) (2010) (0)
- Case At a Glance: The Meaning of Blakely in Booker and Fanfan (2004) (0)
- American Civil Procedure (2008) (0)
- Making Sense of the Michigan Affirmative Action Cases. (2003) (0)
- The Hunter Doctrine and Proposition 209: A Reply to Thomas Wood (1997) (0)
- Afterthoughts on Snyder v. Phelps (2011) (0)
- Morse, School Speech, and Originalism (2009) (0)
- Part VII. Evidence (2009) (0)
- Groups and Political Rights (1999) (0)
- Reclaiming the Centrality of the Jury in Sentencing Guidelines Regimes (2005) (0)
- California State Constitutional Conundrums - State Constitutional Quirks Exposed by the Same-Sex Marriage Experience: The 21st Annual Rutgers Lecture in State Constitutional Law (2009) (0)
- Bias and the Problem of Peremptory Challenges (2005) (0)
- Direct Democracy and Article II: Additional Thoughts on Initiatives and Presidential Elections (2008) (0)
- What an extension of free speech rights to animals might mean, doctrinally speaking (2018) (0)
- Why I So Enjoyed Learning With and From Calvin Massey (2017) (0)
- State Religious Freedom Restoration Acts and the Employment Setting (1999) (0)
- Shaw v. Reno (2008) (0)
- Lower Court Disobedience & the Ninth Circuit (2004) (0)
- Federal Court Review of State Court Interpretations of State Laws that Regulate Federal Elections: Debunking the 'Independent State Legislature' Notion Once and for all, and Keeping Federal Judges to Their Important but Limited Lanes (2020) (0)
- Locating Free-Exercise Most-Favored-Nation-Status (MFN) Reasoning in Constitutional Context (2022) (0)
- Reforming the Jury System Would Improve the Criminal Justice System (1998) (0)
- Reasonable Accommodations Under the ADA: The Supreme Court in Barnett (2002) (0)
- Does the Military Commissions Act of 2006 Violate the Suspensions Clause (2007) (0)
- Some Questions about Justice Blackmun's Federalism and Separation of Powers Cases (1999) (0)
- Rewriting the Constitution's Basic “Structural” Provisions: When a Constitutional Convention for Electoral Change Is Necessary, and What It Might Be Expected to Accomplish (2008) (0)
- Lessons from California's Recent Experience with its Non-Unitary (Divided) Executive: Of Mayors, Governors, Controllers, and Attorneys General (2009) (0)
- “Clarifying” Murphy’s Law: Did Something Go Wrong in Reconciling Commandeering and Conditional Preemption Doctrines? (2019) (0)
- State Religious Freedom Restoration Acts and the Workplace (1999) (0)
- Taking (Equal Voting) Rights Seriously: The Fifteenth Amendment as Constitutional Foundation, and the Need For Judges to Remodel Their Approach to Age Discrimination in Political Rights (2022) (0)
- Case At a Glance: Rasul and Al Odah (2003) (0)
- Back to the Future: Minority Groups and the Supreme Court's October 2002 Term (2003) (0)
- The First Amendment in the 2009 Term: It's All About How You Frame It (2010) (0)
- The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth About 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors' and the Constitution's Impeachment Process (1998) (0)
- When Avoiding Federal Questions Should not Evade Federal Review: Michigan v. Long Meets, and Trumps, Ashwander v. TVA (2009) (0)
- Implementing an Historical Vision of the Jury in an Age of Administrative Factfinding and Sentencing Guidelines (2005) (0)
- Jury Service and Jury Discrimination (1999) (0)
- An Enigmatic Court? Examining the Roberts Court as it Begins Year Three: Criminal Justice (2008) (0)
- Cause Lawyering for the Caged Invisibility, Moral Suasion, and Disenfranchisement in the Prisoners’ Rights and Animal Protection Movements (2022) (0)
- Case at a Glance: Wine Importation and the Constitution (2004) (0)
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