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2011 Higgins Distinguished Visitor: Akhil Reed Amar

Date: March 15 2011, 7:00pm Location: Lewis & Clark Law School, Legal Research Center, Lower Lounge. Reception to follow.

Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, will lecture on “America’s Unwritten Constitution.”

Book signing at 6:45pm. Reception to follow lecture.

About Akhil Reed Amar

Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law at 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, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, Professor Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985.

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 (1997), The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (1998), and most recently, America’s Constitution: A Biography (2005).

About the Higgins Distinguished Visitor

The Higgins Distinguished Visitor is endowed by a grant from the Lorene Sails Higgins Charitable Trust. The program was designed to provide an opportunity for Lewis & Clark faculty and students and the Portland community to learn from and interact with leading legal scholars from around the world.