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Professor Akhil Reed Amar will lecture on
The Judicialization of the Judiciary:
Some Thoughts on the Supreme Court
Nomination and Confirmation Process.
Professor Amar is the
Southmayd Professor of Law and Political
Science at Yale University and is one of
the nation’s leading constitutional law
theorists. He wil be be a
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at
Suffolk University Law School during the
fall 2006 semester. Professor Amar is a
summa cum laude graduate
of Yale College and a graduate of Yale Law
School, where he was an editor of The
Yale Law Journal. Following graduation
from law school, Professor Amar served as a
law clerk for Judge Stephen Breyer on the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First
Circuit.
Professor Amar has authored
numerous books and over 80 scholarly
articles published in leading law reviews.
His most recent book, entitled America’s
Constitution: A Biography, has received
extensive praise and positive commentary.
Professor Amar has previously been a
visiting professor at Columbia, Stanford,
and Pepperdine Law Schools.
In 1996,
Professor Amar was a Donahue Lecturer at
Suffolk University Law School and later
published an article in the Suffolk
University Law Review. In 1997, the
Suffolk University Board of Trustees
awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree
to Professor Amar.
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