[Hamp-law] Akhil Amar Reed at Amherst College today

[Falguni A. Sheth]

Could be interesting. Reed has written several books on Constitutional
protections and discrimination:

April 12th 2011 Lecture/Reading  *Time* 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm  *Campus*  AC  *
Title*  America's Unwritten Constitution: Between the Lines and Beyond the
Text  *Phone Contact*  Cole Assembly Room   Akhil Reed Amar, the Sterling
Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, will deliver
remarks as a preview of his highly anticipated new book, "America's
Unwritten Constitution," to be published by Random House this year.

There is far more to American constitutionalism than the several thousand
words that form the document itself. Alongside America's written
Constitution lies a vast unwritten Constitution, whose interpretation
requires us to range beyond the terse text. But once we venture outside the
written Constitution's confines, where and how should we start? How can
unwritten constitutionalism be squared with fidelity to the text?

"America's Unwritten Constitution" is the sequel to "America's Constitution:
A Biography," the widely heralded winner of the 2006 Silver Gavel Award.

Amar will be introduced by Hadley Arkes, Edward N. Ney Professor of American
Institutions at Amherst College, and author of, among others, "Beyond the
Constitution" (1992).

To be followed by a reception, with refreshments, in Converse Lobby.

This event is free and open to the public.
-- 
Warm regards,
FS

Falguni A. Sheth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
and Political Theory
School of Social Science
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002

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