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"The Constitution at a Crossroads" by Akhil Reed Amar (Yale)</h1>
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Thursday, September 15, 2016<br class="">
Room A, College of Law Building<br class="">
11:00 AM–11:45 AM</p>
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For the first time in our lifetime—and for one of the few times in modern history—all four major federal institutions of power are in play, electorally speaking. Come January, the Democrats could control the House, Senate, Presidency, and Supreme Court. Or
the Republicans could control all four. Or we could continue with divided government. We are guaranteed to have a new president—a guarantee that arises only every eighth year—and the Supreme Court could shift away from Republican control for the first time
in nearly half a century. In this talk, Yale Law Professor <a href="https://www.law.yale.edu/akhil-reed-amar" class="external-link" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(46, 90, 163);">Akhil
Reed Amar</a> will discuss the constitutional significance of all this.<br class="">
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Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale College, summa cum laude, in 1980 and from Yale Law School in 1984,
and clerking for then Judge (now Justice) Stephen Breyer, Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985 at the age of 26. His work has won awards from both the American Bar Association and the Federalist Society, and he has been favorably cited by Supreme Court justices
across the spectrum in more than 30 cases—tops in his generation. </p>
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In various comprehensive surveys of judicial citations and/or scholarly citations, he invariably ranks among America’s five most-cited legal scholars under age sixty. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2008 he received the DeVane
Medal—Yale’s highest award for teaching excellence. He has written widely for popular publications such as <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The New York Times</em>, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The
Washington Post</em>, the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Wall Street Journal</em>, the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Los
Angeles Times</em>, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The Atlantic</em>, and <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Slate</em>.
He was an informal consultant to the popular TV show, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The West Wing</em>, and his work has been showcased on more recent TV shows such
as <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The Colbert Report</em>, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Charlie
Rose</em>, and <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The MHP Show</em>. Professor Amar is the author of dozens of law review articles and several books, including <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The
Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles</em>(Yale Univ. Press, 1997), <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction</em> (Yale
Univ. Press, 1998), <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">America’s Constitution: A Biography </em>(Random House, 2005), <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">America’s
Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By</em> (Basic Books, 2012), and <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of our
Constitutional Republic</em> (Basic Books, 2015). His newest book, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era</em>,
is being published in September 2016—just in time for what promises to be a momentous election.</p>
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Following the lecture, consider attending the "<a href="http://law.illinois.edu/events/4599" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(46, 90, 163);" class="">Free
Speech on Campus</a>" panel discussion at the Illini Union, Room A.</p>
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