Associate Dean Amar's Election Op-ed Republished Nationally

Associate Dean Vik Amar's Op-ed published last week in the Los Angeles Times has been republished in a number of other newspapers around the country and world this week, including  publications as geographically diverse as the Las Cruces Sun-News, the Northern Jersey Recorder, and The Peninsula, the leading English daily newspaper serving the Middle Eastern emirate of Qatar.  His essay examines the way America selects vice presidents, and questions the desirability of the current system, which requires voters to elect a vice president as part of a unified president/vice president party ticket rather than vote directly for a vice presidential candidate. 

Vikram Amar, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law with the UC Davis School of Law, is a national authority in the fields of constitutional law, civil procedure, criminal procedure, and remedies. His biweekly column for FindLaw.com, the leading provider of online legal information, centers on his expertise in constitutional law.