Duke University (BA) Harvard University (PhD) Stanford University (JD)
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Our Undemocratic Constitution
Scientific career
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Constitutional law
Institutions
University of Texas
Sanford Victor Levinson (born June 17, 1941) is an American legal scholar known for his writings on constitutional law. A professor at the University of Texas Law School, Levinson is notable for his criticism of the United States Constitution as well as excessive presidential power[1] and has been widely quoted on such topics as the Second Amendment, gay marriage, nominations to the Supreme Court, and other legal issues. He has called for a Second Constitutional Convention of the United States.
^Sanford Levinson (February 5, 2009). ""Wartime Presidents and the Constitution: From Lincoln to Obama" – speech by Sanford Levinson at Wayne Morse Center". Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. Retrieved 2009-10-10. [dead link]
Sanford Victor Levinson (born June 17, 1941) is an American legal scholar known for his writings on constitutional law. A professor at the University...
curator SanfordLevinson (born 1941), American law professor Sara Levinson (born 1950), American entrepreneur and former executive Shimon Levinson (born...
groups are also seen as a problem for the functioning of democracy. SanfordLevinson argues that campaign financing and gerrymandering are seen as serious...
restore Trump to power". The Guardian. SanfordLevinson. "The Democratic Deficit in America". SanfordLevinson (LA Times article available on website)...
August 2018). "Stealth Authoritarianism in Turkey". In Mark A. Graber; SanfordLevinson; Mark V. Tushnet (eds.). Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?. Oxford...
too large a role in politics." Scholars such as Richard Labunski, SanfordLevinson, Lawrence Lessig, Glenn Reynolds, Larry Sabato, and newspaper columnist...
August 2018). "Stealth Authoritarianism in Turkey". In Mark A. Graber; SanfordLevinson; Mark V. Tushnet (eds.). Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?. Oxford...
new constitutions or updated older constitutions, a process which SanfordLevinson believes to be more difficult in the United States than in any other...
the population of Wyoming. Critics, such as constitutional scholar SanfordLevinson, have suggested that the population disparity works against residents...
board of directors including time spent as its chair. Paul Brest, SanfordLevinson, J.M. Balkin and Akhil Reed Amar, Reva B. Siegel, Processes of Constitutional...
co-author SanfordLevinson contend law is best analogized not to literature but to the performing arts such as music and drama. Balkin and Levinson argue...
Reminiscences. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books. McCloskey, Robert G., and SanfordLevinson (2005). The American Supreme Court, 4th ed. Chicago: University of...
2009-09-21. SanfordLevinson (February 5, 2009). ""Wartime Presidents and the Constitution: From Lincoln to Obama" – speech by SanfordLevinson at Wayne...
expansionism titled The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803–1898, SanfordLevinson and Bartholomew H. Sparrow also determined that "Most Puerto Ricans...
to appoint temporary senators, not whom the governor may appoint. SanfordLevinson, in his rebuttal to Amar, argues that rather than engaging in a textual...
for such a convention. They include Michael Farris, Lawrence Lessig, SanfordLevinson, Larry Sabato, Jonathan Turley, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, and Greg Abbott...
ISBN 0-300-07379-8 Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (ed. with Paul Brest, SanfordLevinson, and Jack M. Balkin), (2000) ISBN 0-7355-5062-X America's Constitution:...
new constitutions or updated older constitutions, a process which SanfordLevinson believes to be more difficult in the United States than in any other...
2010-07-15. The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion: 1803–1898. By SanfordLevinson and Bartholomew H. Sparrow. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers...
limited to particular features. University of Texas law professor SanfordLevinson wonders whether it makes sense for the Connecticut Compromise to give...
as McConnell did." According to University of Texas legal scholar SanfordLevinson, McConnell learned that obstruction and Republican unity were the optimal...
The First Time as Tragedy, the Second as Farce". In Mark A. Graber; SanfordLevinson; Mark V. Tushnet (eds.). Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?. Oxford...
of Empire, pp. 60–63; Penguin Press, 2001; ISBN 978-0-14-311928-9 Levinson, Sanford; Sparrow, Bartholomew H. (2005). The Louisiana Purchase and American...
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