Vikram Amar

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Vikram D. Amar
Born (1963-02-15) February 15, 1963 (age 61)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley (BA)
Yale University (JD)
Scientific career
Fields Constitutional Law,
Federal Courts,
Civil Procedure
Institutions University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of California, Davis

Vikram David Amar (born February 15, 1963) 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. [1] He returned to the University of California, Davis School of Law as a Distinguished Professor of Law in 2023. [2]

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Biography

Prior to his arrival at Illinois Law, Amar was professor and senior associate dean for academic affairs at the UC Davis School of Law (King Hall). [3] Before becoming a professor, he clerked for Judge William Albert Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Harry Blackmun at the U.S. Supreme Court. [4] After serving as a clerk, Amar worked in the Sacramento office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, then began his career in legal academia in 1993 at King Hall. He joined the UC Hastings faculty in 1998, before returning to King Hall in 2007.

Amar received an A.B. in history from UC Berkeley. In 1988, he earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as an articles editor for the Yale Law Journal . [3]

He writes a biweekly column for justia.com. [5] Previously, he wrote a regular column for FindLaw's Writ. [6] He also frequently appears on national radio and television programs as a commentator on contemporary legal issues.

Amar is the younger brother of Yale University law professor Akhil Reed Amar. [7] Vikram Amar was a student at Yale Law School at the time Akhil Amar started teaching there. The two have collaborated on cutting-edge and influential articles on many important topics, including the "Amar Plan" proposal for a National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, [8] and the implausibility of independent state legislature theory. [9] as well as submitting an Amici Curiae brief to the Supreme Court of the United States concerning the disqualification of the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump by the Colorado Supreme Court, under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [10]

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References

  1. "University of Illinois names Vikram Amar dean of the College of Law". University of Illinois College of Law . July 6, 2015. Archived from the original on August 8, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  2. "Vikram D. Amar". U. C. Davis School of Law. The Regents of the University of California . Retrieved January 22, 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Vikram Amar". UC Davis School of Law . Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  4. Wurth, Julie (July 6, 2015). "Updated: UI's next law dean outlines priorities". The News Gazette . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  5. Amar, Vikram David (2016). "Verdict". justia.com. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
  6. Amar, Vikram David (2016). "Legal Commentary: archive". FindLaw Writ . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  7. Amar, Akhil Reed; Amar, Vikram David (February 22, 2002). "Taking the Fifth and mis-taking it". FindLaw . Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  8. Amar, Vikram David, The Case for Reforming Presidential Elections by Subconstitutional Means: The Electoral College, the National Popular Vote Compact, and Congressional Power, 100 Georgetown Law Journal 237 (2011).
  9. Amar, Vikram David and Amar, Akhil Reed, Eradicating Bush-League Arguments Root and Branch: The Article II Independent-State-Legislature Notion and Related Rubbish, 2021 Supreme Court Review 1 (2022);
  10. Amar, Vikram David. "Amici Curiae Brief of Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar In Support Of Neither Party" (PDF). Retrieved January 22, 2024.