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GWorks Interviews: Akhil Reed Amar
Part Two: Invitation
America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents & Principles We Live By
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GWorks Interviews: Akhil Reed Amar (Complete)
GWorks Interviews: Akhil Reed Amar was filmed Monday 19 November 2012 at Yale Law School. GWorks would like to thank Professor Amar for his generous participation and Cassie Dendurent Nelson of Basic Books. Please note: At GOVERNINGWorks’s request, Basic Books provided a Reviewer Copy of America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents & Principles We Live By.
Photo: Akhil Reed Amar. Photo credit: Harold Shapiro. Courtesy Basic Books.
Photo: America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents & Principles We Live By. Courtesy Basic Books.
1 Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. He teaches Constitutional Law at Yale College and Yale Law School. His new book, America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents & Principles We Live By, explores how we understand and interpret the words of the Constitution.
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—Thursday 29 November 2012—
Introduction
“I think the text of the Constitution itself
at various key places signals its awareness
of the need to go beyond the text in order
to complete the text.”
Part Two: Invitation (above)—The Constitution’s invitation to understand it and how this relates to issues like privacy and the Supreme Court’s review of same-sex marriage.
Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. He teaches Constitutional Law at Yale College and Yale Law School. His new book, America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents & Principles We Live By (Basic Books, 2012), explores how we understand and interpret the words of the Constitution.
Part One: (Un)written—Describing the book, why Professor Amar wrote it and his idea that we can all do Constitutional interpretation.
Part Three: Extent—What makes up the unwritten Constitution and how far does it reach.
Part Four: Limit—How the unwritten Constitution supplements—but not supplants—the written Constitution.
Part Five: Meaning—What the unwritten Constitution means to forming “a more perfect Union.”
To watch the interview in its entirety, please visit GWorks Interviews: Akhil Reed Amar (Complete)
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Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, Professor Amar teaches Constitutional Law and Yale College and Yale Law School. His latest book, America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents & Principles We Live By (Basic Books, 2012), explores how we understand and interpret the words of the Constitution.
GWorks Interviews: Akhil Reed Amar (Complete)
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Describing the book, why he wrote it and his idea that we all can make and evaluate Constitutional arguments.
Thursday 29 November 2012
The written Constitution itself invites an “unwritten Constitution”—and how—and how this relates to issues like privacy, equality & the Supreme Court's review of same-sex marriage.
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What makes up the unwritten Constitution and how far does it reach.
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