Currie Lecture 2013 | Akhil Reed Amar, Lex Majoris Partis
Annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture: Duke Law School welcomes Akhil Reed Amar as the 2013 Currie Memorial Lecture speaker. Amar, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, will explain 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 in his lecture titled: "Lex Majoris Partis: How the Senate Can End the Filibuster on any Day by Simple Majority Rule."
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