Akhil Amar

Background

Amar was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his parents were medical students from India studying at the University of Michigan.

Education

He graduated from Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California in 1976.

Career

Formerly the Southmayd Professor of Law at Yale Law School, he was named Sterling Professor of Law in 2008. A Legal Affairs poll placed Amar among the top 20 contemporary United States legal thinkers. Amar is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College (Bachelor, 1980) and a graduate of the Yale Law School (Juris Doctor 1984), where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Amar clerked for now-United States. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer when he was a judge on the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

Amar is the author of numerous publications and books, most recently America"s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By. The Supreme Court has cited his work in over twenty cases, including the landmark 1998 decision in Clinton v.

City of New York, which ruled the presidential line-item veto unconstitutional. In their book Foreign the People: What the Constitution Really Says About Your Rights, Amar and Alan Hirsch introduce a variation on the four boxes of liberty theme often quoted by conservatives opposed to gun control.

Discussing the American Constitution, they assert that the ideal of citizenship generates four "boxes" of rights.

The first three are the ballot box, jury box and cartridge box. To these, with some reservations, they add the lunch box: the idea of a social safety Netto that supports basic physical and educational needs. Amar was a consultant to the television show The West Wing, on which the character Josh Lyman refers to him in an episode in Season Five.

His course on constitutional law is one of the most popular undergraduate offerings at Yale College.

Amar spent the Fall 2010 semester as a Visiting Professor of Law at Pepperdine School of Law and was also named the B.R. Ambedkar Professor of Indian Constitutional Law at Columbia Law School in April 2010. He has also lectured for One Day University.

He was a Visiting Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School during the Fall 2006 semester. In 2008, United States. presidential candidate Mike Gravel said that he would name Amar to the Supreme Court if elected President.

Achievements

• He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

Works

• book

  • The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction by Akhil Reed Amar (1998-08-11)

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  • The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction by Professor Akhil Reed Amar (2000-04-01)

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  • The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles Paperback March 30, 1998

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • By Professor Akhil Reed Amar - The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (3.2.2000)

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • A Grand Tour of our Constitutional Republic The Law of the Land (Hardback) - Common

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  • The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction By Amar, Akhil Reed ( Author ) 2000 ) Paperback
  • The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles by Akhil Reed Amar (1998-03-30)

• Other Work

  • Books The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles (1997) For the People (with A Hirsch) (1997) The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (1998) Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (ed with P Brest, S Levinson, and JM Balkin), (2000) X America's Constitution: A Biography (2005) America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (2012) The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic (2015).

Membership

American Academy of Arts and Sciences.