President Obama has nominated a Yale professor as a member of the National Council on Humanities. The nomination of Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at the university since 2008, was announced May 20 along with other key administration positions.
“I am confident that these outstanding individuals will serve the American people well, and I look forward to working with them,” Obama said.
Amar has been a professor at both Yale Law School and Yale College since 1985 and has held various professorships, including Southmayd Professor from 1993 to 2008, professor from 1990 to 1993, associate professor from 1988 to 1990, and assistant professor from 1985 to 1988. Amar worked as a law clerk to Judge Stephen Breyer, then of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, from 1984 to 1985. He is the co-editor of a constitutional law casebook “Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking,” and has written several other books on constitutional law.
He is also the author of several books including “The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles”, “The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction”, “Americas Constitution: A Biography”, and most recently, “America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By.”
Amar is a member of the Board of Directors of the Constitutional Accountability Center and the Coalition of Freedom Advisory Board of the National Constitution Center. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007 and was named a Senior Scholar by the National Constitution Center in 2000. He received a B.A. from Yale College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
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