Title
Lex Majoris Partis: How the Senate Can End the Filibuster on Any Day by Simple Majority Rule
Description
Amar, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, explains his preferred version of the so-called "nuclear option" by which a simple Senate majority may modify or eliminate the Senate's entrenched filibuster practice.
Publications
Akhil R. Amar, Lex Majoris Partis: How the Senate Can End the Filibuster on Any Day by Simple Majority Rule , 63 Duke Law Journal 1483-1502 (2014) Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol63/iss7/2
Lecture Date
February 21, 2013