Amarica's Constitution

Amarica’s Constitution shares the stage this week with the fine podcast “So to Speak” from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).  Professor Amar is interviewed by FIRE, and the his...

12 Loka 20211h 39min

The academic year is underway, and Professor Amar’s crazy teaching schedule, as usual, includes co-teaching with some of the greatest constitutional scholars in the nation.  This semester Akhil is joi...

5 Loka 20211h 17min

Our look inside the literary world continues. So many of us are aspiring or perhaps would-be authors, but what is really involved, and can we really join that world?  Akhil takes you through the many ...

29 Syys 20211h 20min

It’s fitting that our recent discussion of how authors and their books are realized is followed this week by a discussion with the finest example of a historian, Gordon Wood.  We explore his new book,...

22 Syys 20211h 24min

It’s Constitution Week, and Akhil is “booked;” not only with events of the week, but on his book tour.  Our series on scholars, schools, and scholarship resumes, then, with a comprehensive look at the...

15 Syys 20211h 34min

Texas has brazenly - or boldly, depending on your point of view - thrown down a gauntlet on abortion with their new law purporting to ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.  The Supreme...

8 Syys 20211h 43min

Suppose there is a controversial issue of constitutional law.  Where does one go for authoritative exposition? We continue what is essentially a discussion of expertise and authority.  How do you know...

1 Syys 20211h 34min

What do Willie Mays and Laurence Tribe have in common?  Andy and Akhil start with an Amar citation from Clarence Thomas in a case last term and branch off into a discussion of scholars’ rankings, the ...

25 Elo 20211h 49min