Akhil R. Amar
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Visiting Professor in Indian Constitutional Law (Fall 2011 - Spring 2012)
Education- Yale College, B.A., 1980, summa cum laude
- Yale Law School, J.D., 1984
BiographyAkhil Reed Amar is the 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. Professor Amar is 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 (Yale Univ. Press, 1997),
The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (Yale Univ. Press, 1998), and most recently,
America's Constitution: A Biography (Random House, 2005).
