All the more reason to come to San Francisco in September for the APSA conference:

Friday, 2:30 pm

53.5 LAW AND POLITICAL PROCESS STUDY GROUP: ROUNDTABLE ON THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT AT 50

Chair: Bernard N. Grofman, University of California, Irvine

Part: Matt A. Barreto, University of California, Los Angeles

Kareem Crayton, University of North Carolina

Pamela S. Karlan, Stanford Law School

Derek Muller, Pepperdine University School of Law

 

Saturday, 10:15 am

74.13 LAW AND POLITICAL PROCESS STUDYGROUP: POLITICAL PARTIES AND CAMPAIGN  FINANCE IN THE POST-CITIZENS UNITEDWORLD

Chair: Daniel H. Lowenstein, University of California, Los Angeles

Disc: Yasmin Dawood

Papers: Ideological Donors, Contribution Limits, and the Polarization of American Legislatures

Michael Barber, Brigham Young University

The Federalist Safeguards of Politics

Anthony Johnstone, University of Montana

Legislators as Party Elites: Intraparty Factionalism and Presidential Politics in the New Hampshire State House

Seth E. Masket, University of Denver

Democratic Romanticism

Richard Pildes, New York University

I will also be on two panels, not connected to the LPPSG:

Friday, 11:30 am

44.30 THE PROSPECTS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND REFORM IN THE U.S.

Chair: Stephen M. Griffin, Tulane Law School

Part: John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University

Sanford Levinson, University of Texas, Austin

Richard L. Hasen, UC Irvine School of Law

Melissa A. Schwartzberg, New York University

Sunday, 8:00 am

91.39 AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: BRUCE CAIN’S DEMOCRACY MORE OR LESS

Chair: Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego

Part: Bruce E. Cain

Richard L. Hasen, UC Irvine School of Law

Frances E. Lee, University of Maryland, College Park

Raymond J. La Raja, University of Massachusetts,

Amherst