Creating a Nation Series: This distinguished speaker series will spotlight the tumultuous period of American history following the Revolution, when the young Country was becoming a Nation, thus encouraging a deeper understanding of our origins and identity.
Based on his forthcoming book, Born Equal: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1840-1920, Professor Amar’s lecture will explore America’s constitutional debates from 1840 to
1920. The narrative begins with millions of Blacks in chains and culminates with millions of women winning the right to vote. It continues from Professor Amar’s 2021 book, The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760- 1840, previously presented at The Four Arts. Akhil Reed Amar is a Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University.
A summa cum laude graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge (later Justice) Stephen Breyer before joining the Yale faculty at age 26. He is the only living Yale professor to have won the University’s unofficial triple crown: the Sterling Chair for scholarship, the DeVane Medal for teaching, and the Lamar Award for alumni service.