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December 10, 2015
Professor Sanford Levinson discusses Constitutional crises and what they are and are not in this piece for Cato Unbound. Reprinted here with their permission. On “Constitutional Crises” BY SANFORD LEVINSON Consider the impeachments of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. Did either of them amount to a constitutional crisis? The answer is no, even though […] -
January 21, 2015
A symposium on “Popular Sovereignty, Self-determination and Secession” will be held Jan. 22-24 at The University of Texas School of Law. This year marks the 150th anniversary of Appomattox, the formal end of the attempt of the Confederate States of America to secede from the United States, and the 240th anniversary of the American Revolution. […] -
May 12, 2014
UT Law professor believes it’s time to review and renew the Constitution as the Founding Fathers envisioned By Sanford Levinson It has become almost a convention of contemporary American politics — like politicians who feel called upon to wear the American flag on their lapels — to treat the Constitution as a basically sacred text. […] -
January 18, 2013
“Is America Governable” conference to take place at the Law School, January 24–26, 2013
The Law School will host a conference, “Is America Governable?” on January 24–26, 2013. It will bring together a remarkable array of scholars across many disciplines, people with a variety of high-level political experience, and eminent journalists to discuss the apparent dysfunction of the U.S. government, and possible remedies for it. -
September 24, 2012
John Paul Stevens, who retired in 2010 after serving as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for thirty-four years, , has written an extensive review of Professor Sanford Levinson’s latest book, Framed: America’s Fifty-one Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance (Oxford University Press, 2012), in the October 11, 2012, edition of The New York Review of Books. -
September 6, 2012
“Whither American Conservatism” conference to take place at the Law School, September 14–15, 2012
Professor Sanford Levinson, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood Jr. Centennial Chair in Law, has organized a conference in conjunction with the American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP), “Whither American Conservatism.” The conference will take place at the Law School on Friday, September 14, and Saturday, September 15. -
June 1, 2012
Sanford Levinson speaks to UT Law about his new book, Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance. -
March 27, 2012
Law School to host symposium, “Countermajoritarianism and the Courts,” March 30–31, 2012
The University of Texas School of Law will host a symposium entitled “Countermajoritarianism and the Courts” on March 30–31, 2012. The symposium will be the first systematic reexamination in years of the extent to which the United States Supreme Court can meaningfully be described as a “countermajoritarian institution” in American political life. -
November 11, 2011
An interview with Sanford Levinson, holder of the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair at the University of Texas School of Law, will be aired on C-SPAN2's BookTV on Sunday, November 13, 2011, at noon Central Time. -
April 1, 2011
The University of Texas School of Law, in association with the American Constitutional Society and the Open Society Institute, will host a conference,“The Future of Equality,” in the Law School’s Jeffers Courtroom (TNH 3.140) on April 1–2, 2011. -
February 8, 2011
Law School to host “Federalism and Its Future” conference, February 10-12, 2011
Nationally and internationally acclaimed scholars and lawyers will discuss recent significant scholarship on the topic of federalism, both in the United States and abroad, at a three-day conference, “Federalism and Its Future,” hosted at the University of Texas School of Law on February 10–12, 2011. -
September 3, 2010
Sanford Levinson, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law and the University of Texas at Austin, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association on September 3, 2010, during its annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
