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Akhil Reed Amar is currently the Southmayd Professor
of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where
he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and
Yale Law School. He received his B.A, summa cum
laude, in 1980 from Yale College, and his J.D.
in 1984 from Yale Law School, where he served as an
editor of the Yale Law Journal. After clerking
for Judge Stephen Breyer, he joined the Yale faculty
in 1985. In 1994 he received the Paul Bator award from
the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, and
in 1997 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of law
by Suffolk University. In 1995 the National Law
Journal named him as one of 40 “Rising Stars
in the Law,” and in 1997 The American Lawyer
placed him on their “Public Sector 45" list.
His work on the Bill of Rights also earned the ABA Certificate
of Merit and the Yale University Press Governor’s
Award. He has delivered endowed lectures at over two
dozen colleges and universities, and has written widely
on constitutional issues for such publications as The
New York Times, The Washington Post, The
Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal,
Time Magazine, The New Republic, and
Slate. He is also a contributing editor to
The American Lawyer. His many law review articles
and books have been widely cited by scholars, judges,
and lawmakers; for example, the Justices of the United
States Supreme Court have invoked his work in more than
twenty cases, and he has testified before Congress on
a wide range of constitutional issues. 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), and
most recently, America’s Constitution: A Biography
(Random House 2005). Campus
Address: Sterling Law Building, Room M45
Phone: 203 432-4838
Email: akhil.amar@yale.edu
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