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Equality and the Constitution with Akhil Reed Amar
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Join Oregon Humanities for a conversation with Akhil Reed Amar, one of the country’s leading thinkers on constitutional law. Explore how equality has been a core part of laws, history, and self-understanding, and consider how to strive toward this ideal today. Also, dig into the arguments and assumptions that informed the US Constitution, how it has evolved over the past 238 years, and what the future may hold for the nation’s most basic laws.
Amar teaches constitutional law at Yale University. He is the author of several books about constitutional law and history, including America’s Unwritten Constitution, The Constitution Today, and, most recently, Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840-1920.