In the Press
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
We’re About to Find Out How Far the Supreme Court Will Go to Arm America. — A Commentary by Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL The New York TimesTuesday, March 28, 2023
Elon Musk Can’t Avoid Paying Twitter’s Rent Forever. — A Commentary by Stephen L. Carter ’79 The Washington PostTuesday, March 28, 2023
State Dept. Proposes Joint Tribunal to Try Russian Leaders The New York TimesTuesday, May 26, 2015
President Obama Announces Intent to Nominate Akhil Amar to National Council on the Humanities
On May 20, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Professor Akhil Amar ’84 to be a member of the National Council on the Humanities. The Council is part of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which promotes excellence in the humanities and conveys the lessons of history to all Americans.
Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law at both Yale College and Yale Law School. After clerking for Judge Stephen Breyer, U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit, Professor Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985. Along with Dean Paul Brest and Professors Sanford Levinson, Jack Balkin, and Reva Siegel, Professor Amar is the co-editor of a leading constitutional law casebook, Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking. He is also the author of several books, including The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles (Yale Univ. Press, 1997), The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (Yale Univ. Press, 1998), America’s Constitution: A Biography (Random House, 2005), America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (Basic Books, 2012), and The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic (Basic Books, 2015).
Read the White House press release.