Vikram Amar

Vikram D. Amar
Born c. 1963 (age 5152)
Nationality United States
Fields Constitutional Law, Complex Litigation, Federal Courts, Civil Procedure
Institutions University of Illinois College of Law, University of California, Davis School of Law
Alma mater Las Lomas High School,
University of California, Berkeley,
Yale Law School

Vikram David Amar (born c. 1963) is dean of the University of Illinois College of Law and the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law.

Amar joined Illinois in 2015 from the University of California, Davis School of Law, where he was a professor of law and, since 2008, served as the associate dean for academic affairs. During his seven year as associate dean, Amar was extensively involved in faculty hiring, tenure, and promotions; clinical programming; admissions; career services; and curricular development. In addition to teaching at Davis, Amar was a professor of law at UC Hastings and also a visiting professor of law at UC Berkeley and UCLA.

Amar is a national authority in constitutional law, federal courts, and civil procedure. He has written a number of books and scores of articles in leading law journals. He is a co-author (along with Willian Cohen and Jonahtan Varat) of Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 14th ed. 2013) and co-author of a number of volumes of the Wright & Miller Federal Practice and Procedure Treatise (West Publishing Co.). He is also the co-author of a one-volume treatise on American Civil Procedure. He writes a biweekly column on constitutional matters for justia.com, is a frequent commentator on local and national radio and TV, and has penned dozens of op-ed pieces for major newspapers and magazines.

A strong proponent of public and professional engagement, Amar is an elected member of the American Law Institute and has served as a consultant for, among others, the National Association of Attorneys General, the United States Department of Justice, the California Attorney General's Office, the ACLU of Southern California, and the Center for Civic Education. For one year, he chaired the Civil Procedure Section of the Association of American Law Schools.

Amar earned his bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an articles editor for the Yale Law Journal. He then clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for the Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court before joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he handled a variety of complex civil and white collar criminal matters. Amar appears to be the first person of South Asian heritage to have clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court, and the first Indo-American to become Dean of a major American Law School.

Born and raised in Northern California, Amar has two brothers. Akhil Amar is the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and Arun Amar is a Professor of Neurosurgery at USC in Los Angeles.


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    University of Illinois College of Law

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