Vikram Amar
{{Short description|American legal scholar}}
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| fields = Constitutional Law,
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Civil Procedure
| workplaces = University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of California, Davis
| alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley (BA)
Yale University (JD)
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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.{{cite web |title=University of Illinois names Vikram Amar dean of the College of Law |url=http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/3023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150808172509/http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/3023 |archive-date=August 8, 2015 |work=University of Illinois College of Law |date=July 6, 2015 |access-date=February 20, 2016}} He returned to the University of California, Davis School of Law as a Distinguished Professor of Law in 2023.{{cite web |title=Vikram D. Amar |url=https://law.ucdavis.edu/people/vikram-amar |website=U. C. Davis School of Law |publisher=The Regents of the University of California |access-date=22 January 2024}}
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). 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.{{cite web |first=Julie |last=Wurth |title=Updated: UI's next law dean outlines priorities |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2015-07-06/updated-uis-next-law-dean-outlines-priorities.html |work=The News Gazette |date=July 6, 2015 |access-date=February 20, 2016}} 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.{{cite news |url= http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Amar/index.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906011735/https://law.ucdavis.edu/faculty/amar/ |archive-date=September 6, 2015 |title=Vikram Amar |work=UC Davis School of Law |access-date=February 20, 2016}}
He writes a biweekly column for justia.com.{{cite web |first=Vikram David |last=Amar |title=Verdict |url=https://verdict.justia.com/author/amar/ |work=justia.com |date=2016 |access-date=March 23, 2016}} Previously, he wrote a regular column for FindLaw's Writ.{{cite web |first=Vikram David |last=Amar |title=Legal Commentary: archive |url=http://writ.news.findlaw.com/amar/ |work=FindLaw Writ |date=2016 |access-date=February 20, 2016}} 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.{{cite web |first1=Akhil Reed |last1=Amar |first2=Vikram David |last2=Amar |title=Taking the Fifth and mis-taking it |url=https://supreme.findlaw.com/legal-commentary/taking-the-fifth-and-mis-taking-it.html |work=FindLaw |date=February 22, 2002 |access-date=February 4, 2022}} 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,Amar, Vikram David, [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1936374 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). and the implausibility of independent state legislature theory.Amar, Vikram David and Amar, Akhil Reed, [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3731755 Eradicating Bush-League Arguments Root and Branch: The Article II Independent-State-Legislature Notion and Related Rubbish], 2021 Supreme Court Review 1 (2022); 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.{{cite web |last1=Amar |first1=Vikram David |title=Amici Curiae Brief of Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar In Support Of Neither Party |url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-719/295994/20240118094034746_Trump%20v%20Anderson.pdf |access-date=22 January 2024}}
See also
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External links
- {{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NR&d_origin=transcripts&z=NR&p_theme=nr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1047140275365FA3&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Interview: Professor Vikram Amar discusses today's California Supreme Court decision (768 words)|date=August 12, 2004|work=National Public Radio: All Things Considered|access-date=December 20, 2009}}
- [https://www.law.illinois.edu/faculty/profile/VikramAmar University of Illinois College of Law Faculty: Vikram David Amar]
- [https://law.illinois.edu/faculty-research/faculty-profiles/vikram-d-amar/#publications List of Amar's publications]
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Category:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Category:American legal scholars
Category:Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Category:UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
Category:UC Davis School of Law faculty
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Category:Yale Law School alumni
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Category:Deans of law schools in the United States
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