The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic

As cases such as Brown v. Board of Education demonstrate, laws and legal debates affecting the entire nation arise from distinctive local settings. Renowned scholar Akhil Reed Amar sheds new light on America’s constitutional landscape by exploring how the nation’s legal tradition unites a vast and disparate land.

Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, is the author of America’s Constitution: A Biography and America’s Unwritten Constitution. His most recent book is The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic. Trevor W. Morrison (moderator) is Dean and Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.