Akhil Reed Amar (born September 6, 1958) is an American legal scholar who is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. He is a scholar of originalism, executive power, judicial power, the Bill of Rights, federalism, constitutional history, and criminal procedure.
Books in order of publication:
The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles (1997)
For the People (with Alan Hirsch) (1997)
The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (1998)
Processes of Constitutional Decision making (ed. with Paul Brest, Sanford Levinson, and Jack M. Balkin) (2000)
America’s Constitution: A Biography (2005)
America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (2012)
The Bill of Rights Primer: A Citizen’s Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights (with Les Adams) (2013)
The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic (2015)
The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era (2016)
The Words that Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840 (2021)
Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840-1920 (2025)
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