In honor of Constitution day, which is celebrated nationally on Sept. 17, the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage hosted one of the most prominent constitutional scholars in the country: Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. Amar was a featured speaker and panelist at OU’s inaugural Teach-In which took place in February of this year. He teaches constitutional law at both Yale College and Yale Law School. He earned his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Yale College in 1980 and his juris doctorate in 1984 from Yale Law School, where he served as editor of The Yale Law Journal. He joined the faculty at Yale in 1985 after clerking for Judge Stephen Breyer, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit. Amar is the co-editor of the leading constitutional law casebook Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking. He also is the author of several books, including; The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles, The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction and America’s Constitution: A Biography. He has two more books scheduled for publication in 2013. Named one of the “Top 20 Legal Thinkers in America” by Legal Affairs Magazine, Amar is the recipient of the American Bar Association Silver Gavel for America’s Constitution: A Biography.