Akhil Reed Amar
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Akhil Reed Amar is a Southmayd Professor of Law at the Yale Law School.
Biography
Amar is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College (B.A., 1980) and the Yale Law School (J.D. 1984) and was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Amar clerked for now-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer when he was a judge on the First Circuit Court of Appeals.He is the author of numerous publications and books. He is a consultant to the popular television show The West Wing, on which the character Josh Lyman refers to him in an episode in Season Five. He serves on the Board of Directors for the National Constitution Center. Amar's younger brother, Vikram Amar, teaches at the UC Hastings College of Law. His course on constitutional law is one of the most popular undergraduate offerings at Yale College.
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 J.M. Balkin), (2000)
- America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)
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