On the Nature of Constitutions - A Preface by Prof. Akhil Reed Amar

On the Nature of Constitutions - 

A Preface by Professor Akhil Reed Amar

Free Lecture and Book Signing

Wednesday, September 18th at 5:30pm

at The Jay Heritage Center, Rye, NY

Noted legal scholar, author and Yale Law School Professor Akhil Reed Amar gives the keynote speech to commemorate Constitution Week and launch our first academic conference titled "Populism and Constitutions." He will address the nature of constitutions, with particular reference to how ideas about constitutions have changed and developed, and how they might look in the future. Co-sponsored by the Jay Heritage Center and the Foundation for Law, Justice, and Society (FLJS.) FLJS is an independent institution affiliated with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies based at Wolfson College, Oxford University; its objective is to study the role of law in contemporary societies and bring the fruits of academic research to a wider professional audience.

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, 1st 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 most recently, America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (Basic Books, 2012).

Lecture is free and open to the public and signed books will be available for purchase. Due to anticipated demand, reservations are required and tickets are limited to 2 per person. To reserve a seat(s) please contact JHC at our new e-mail address, jayheritagecenter@gmail.com or call (914) 698-9275 by
Monday, September 16, 2013. 


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