19 Facts About Sanford Levinson

Sanford Victor Levinson was born on June 17,1941 and is an American legal scholar known for his writings on constitutional law.

Sanford Levinson has called for a Second Constitutional Convention of the United States.

Sanford Levinson then attended the Stanford Law School, graduating with a JD in 1973.

Sanford Levinson was a member of the department of Politics at Princeton.

Sanford Levinson taught law at Georgetown, Yale, Harvard, New York University, Boston University, Central European University in Budapest, Pantheon-Assas University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

In 2001, Sanford Levinson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sanford Levinson holds the W St John Garwood and W St John Garwood, Jr.

Sanford Levinson is quoted often in publications about numerous topics involving law.

Sanford Levinson's opinion has been cited during the nominating process for Supreme Court nominees.

Levinson has been critical of Supreme Court justices who have stayed in office despite medical deterioration stemming from longevity; for example, Levinson criticized Chief Justice William H Rehnquist for a "degree of egoistic narcissism" by declaring six weeks before his death of his intention to stay on.

Sanford Levinson is particularly noted for his "seminal article" in the Yale Law Journal entitled The Embarrassing Second Amendment.

Sanford Levinson argued that the Second Amendment doesn't offer either gun rights or gun control advocates a refuge.

Sanford Levinson taught a course called Torture, Law and Lawyers at Harvard Law School in 2005.

Sanford Levinson has been a critic of the unitary executive and excessive presidential power.

Sanford Levinson wrote an essay titled "The Decider Can Become a Dictator" in which he criticized a system which allows presidents to make dictatorial decisions of great consequence without providing ways to discipline those who display bad judgment.

Sanford Levinson has criticized the Constitution for what he considers to be its numerous failings, including an inability to remove the President despite lack of confidence by lawmakers and the public, the President's veto power as being "extraordinarily undemocratic", the difficulty of enacting Constitutional amendments through Article 5 and a lack of more representation in the Senate for highly populated states such as California.

Sanford Levinson criticizes the primary process in which important states which aren't considered "battleground states" are ignored by presidential candidates.

Sanford Levinson appeared on the Bill Moyers television program in 2007.

Sanford Levinson participates in a blog called Balkinization which focuses on constitutional, First Amendment, and other civil liberties issues as well as a blog called Our Undemocratic Constitution.