Akhil Reed Amar

Akhil Reed Amar commands my genuine respect. Born in Ann Arbor and trained at Yale, he is now a Sterling Professor there, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a leading voice on the Bill of Rights and constitutional history. What I value most is his instinct to make dense constitutional thinking accessible to ordinary readers rather than locking it inside the ivory tower. Scholars who open their work to the public earn my trust. There is something stirring about a Michigan kid growing into one of the country's foremost interpreters of its founding charter, and his career embodies exactly that arc.

Name (English)

Akhil Reed Amar

Name (Japanese)

アキル・アマール

Reading

あきる・あまーる

Born

September 6, 1958 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

Origin

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Occupation

legal scholar / professor

High school

Las Lomas High School

University

Yale College

Awards & achievements

• Sterling Professor
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Official sitehttps://akhilamar.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhil%20Reed%20Amar
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3540431

Tags

• Michigan
• legal scholar
• professor

Last updated

2026-06-23

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