Akhil Reed Amar

Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar looks at the way U.S. geography and the individual states have affected key Supreme Court rulings on civil rights and presidential politics.

Akhil Reed Amar, professor of law and political science at Yale University and the author of America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By, looks at the text and the context of the U.S. Constitution.

As Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar notes in the introduction to his new book, "America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By," our founding docu...