Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. Having joined the Yale faculty in 1985 at the age of 26, he is Yale’s only currently active professor to have won the University’s unofficial triple crown—the Sterling Chair for scholarship, the DeVane Medal for teaching, and the Lamar Award for alumni service.
Amar’s work has won awards from both the American Bar Association and the Federalist Society, and he has been cited by Supreme Court justices across the spectrum in more than forty cases—tops in his generation.
He is the author of more than a hundred law review articles and several prizewinning books. His latest and most ambitious book, The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840, has just been published. A wide assortment of his articles and op-eds, and video links to various public lectures and free online courses may be found at akhilamar.com. Along with Andy Lipka, he cohosts a weekly podcast, Amarica’s Constitution.
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The Words that Made Us
Texas Student Chapter
The University of Texas School of Law727 E Dean Keeton St.
Austin, TX 78705
The Sweep and Force of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment
Yale Student Chapter
The Sweep and Force of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
SFFA and Beyond
2023 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
Book Signings
2023 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
The Words That Made Us with Akhil Amar
Harvard Student Chapter
Harvard Law SchoolWCC
Cambridge, MA 02138
SFFA and Beyond
2023 National Lawyers Convention
This year the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Students for Fair Admissions Inc....
SFFA and Beyond
2023 National Lawyers Convention
This year the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Students for Fair Admissions Inc....
14th Annual Rosenkranz Debate & Luncheon
2022 National Lawyers Convention
The 2022 National Lawyers Convention will take place November 10-12, 2022 at the Mayflower Hotel...
14th Annual Rosenkranz Debate & Luncheon
2022 National Lawyers Convention
The 2022 National Lawyers Convention will take place November 10-12, 2022 at the Mayflower Hotel...
II: The Anti-Federalists: Planting Seeds of American Populism (Panel)
2022 National Student Symposium
There is a folk wisdom that connects the American War of Independence’s “no taxation without...