Akhil Reed Amar

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Akhil Reed Amar (born September 6, 1958) is an American legal scholar who is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. He is known for his scholarship on a wide range of topics in U.S. constitutional law, including voting rights, jury reform, the Guarantee Clause, the Electoral College, jurisdiction stripping, the Bill of Rights, the Fourteenth Amendment, judicial power, American federalism, American slavery, originalism, and criminal procedure. After graduating from Yale Law School, Amar was a law clerk for Stephen Breyer and joined the Yale Law School faculty in 1985 at the age of 26. He is Yale's only living professor to have received the University's unofficial triple crown: the title of Sterling Professor for scholarship, the DeVane Medal for teaching, and the Lamar Award for alumni service. His work has been cited by Supreme Court justices across the spectrum in more than 50 cases — the most of any scholar under 70. His work has also been cited in every federal...

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