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Schedule for Wash U. Election Law Conference

This looks great and so sorry I wasn’t able to make it:

Friday, March 22

1:30 to 2:45: Election Law and Race

The Riddle of Race-Based Redistricting

Travis Crum

Reconstruction’s Last Monument

Maureen Edobor

Senior Discussant: Josh Sellers

3:00 to 4:15: Election Law after the 2020 Election 

Incitement as Coordination

Nicholas Almendares

Second-Guessing State Courts in Election Cases

Michael Weingartner

Senior Discussant: Carolyn Shapiro

4:30 to 5:45: Keynote Panel

Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty

Samuel Issacharoff

Free to Judge: The Power of Campaign Money in Judicial Elections

Michael Kang & Joanna Shepherd

Moderator: Travis Crum

Saturday, March 23

9:30 to 10:45: Election Law and Quantitative Methods

The Still Secret Ballot: The Limited Privacy Cost of Transparent Election Results

Michael Morse

Reconstruction and Representation

Michael Olson

Senior Discussant: Abby Wood

11:15 to 12:30: Election Law and Democratic Theory

Reconsidering the Legacy of Disjunctive Legal Change: Lessons of Baker v. Carr

Jacob Eisler

The Democratic Value of “Foreign Interference” in Campaign Finance

John J. Martin

Senior Discussant: Lisa Marshall Manheim

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Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN

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1.Certification and Non-Discretion: A Guide to Protecting the 2024 Election
Lauren Miller and Will Wilder
New York University (NYU) – Brennan Center for Justice and Government of the United States of America – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circui
tDate Posted: 07 Dec 2023
Last Revised: 13 Feb 2024
146
2.Power for the People: Recognizing the Constitutional Right to Vote for President
Charlie Martel
Lewis and Clark Law School
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2024
Last Revised: 30 Jan 2024
100
3.Lawyers and the Abuse of Government Power
Margaret Tarkington
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2023
Last Revised: 02 Dec 2023
43
4.Partisan Gerrymandering
Bernard Grofman and Jonathan Cervas
University of California, Irvine and Carnegie Mellon University
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2023
Last Revised: 29 Nov 2023
29
5.The Criminally Complicated Copyright Questions About Trump’s Mugshot
Cathay Smith
The University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law
Date Posted: 20 Dec 2023
Last Revised: 03 Jan 2024
18
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Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN

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RankPaperDownloads
1.Moore and Partisan Gerrymandering
Manoj Mate
DePaul University – College of Law
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2023
Last Revised: 27 Oct 2023
112
2.Abuse of Discretion: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Indefensible Use of Evidence in Election Law Cases
Richard L. Hasen
UCLA School of Law
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2023
Last Revised: 28 Nov 2023
80
3.Is Donald Trump Eligible to Run For President? Review of Two Scholarly Papers
Peter J. Wallison
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2023
Last Revised: 02 Nov 2023
77
4.Is There Anything Left in the Fight Against Partisan Gerrymandering? Congressional Redistricting Commissions and the “Independent State Legislature Theory”
Jose Urteaga and Derek Zeigler
University of Michigan Law and University of Michigan Law School, Law School
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2023
Last Revised: 24 Oct 2023
60
5.The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil
Marco T. BastosMarco T. Bastos and Raquel Recuero
University College Dublin and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2023
Last Revised: 09 Nov 2023
39
6.Voting Machines: Friend or Foe?
Charles Stewart III
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Department of Political ScienceDate Posted: 18 Nov 2023
Last Revised: 30 Nov 2023
32
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Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN

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1.Sweeping and Forcing the President into Section 3
Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman
South Texas College of Law Houston and National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) – Faculty of Law
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2023
Last Revised: 25 Oct 2023
2,101
2.Equity Will Not . . .
Samuel L. Bray
Notre Dame Law SchoolDate Posted: 19 Sep 2023
Last Revised: 19 Sep 2023
377
3.Baude and Paulsen Are Mistaken: Section 3 Has Never Barred Anyone from Serving as President
David Weisberg
Independent
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2023
Last Revised: 13 Sep 2023
83
4.Deepfake 2024: Will Citizens United and Artificial Intelligence Together Destroy Representative Democracy?
Richard W. Painter
University of Minnesota Law School
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2023
Last Revised: 01 Nov 2023
83
5.Moore and Partisan Gerrymandering
Manoj Mate
DePaul University – College of Law
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2023
Last Revised: 27 Oct 2023
80
6.Expert Report of Matthew A. Seligman In the Matter of John Charles Eastman, Case No. SBC-23-O-30029
Matthew Seligman
Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law School
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2023
Last Revised: 13 Sep 2023
75
7.The Supreme Court Summons the Ghosts of Bush v. Gore: How Moore v. Harper Haunts State and Federal Constitutional Interpretation of Election Laws
Scott Kafker and Simon Jacobs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2023
Last Revised: 19 Sep 2023
67
8.Constitutional Crimes
Michael L. Smith
St. Mary’s University School of Law
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2023
Last Revised: 28 Sep 2023
58
9.The Perils of Fundraising Using the Disinformation of the Big Lie
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
Stetson University College of Law
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023
Last Revised: 19 Sep 2023
37
10.“My name is personalised_ political_advertiser.py and I approve this message”: Regulating automated and targeted political advertising in EU Law
Sam WrigleyMiikka Hiltunen and Päivi Leino
University of Helsinki, Finland, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki and University of Helsinki – Faculty of Law
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023
Last Revised: 14 Sep 2023
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The Free 2023 Supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, Tokaji, and Stephanopoulos, Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th Edition) is Now Available

You can download the free Supplement here. The Supplement is current through the Supreme Court’s October 2022 term ending June 30, 2023, and includes an edited version of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Moore v. Harper, analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Allen v. Milligan case involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and excerpts from the district court’s recent decision in Eastman v. Thompson, involving potential criminal charges connected to the 2020 U.S. presidential elections.

This is a supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, Tokaji, & Stephanopoulos, Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2022).

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Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN

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RankPaperDownloads
1.Beyond the Spoiler Effect: Can Ranked Choice Voting Solve the Problem of Political Polarization?
Nathan AtkinsonEdward B. Foley and Scott Ganz
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Ohio State University (OSU) – Michael E. Moritz College of Law and Georgetown University – McDonough School of Business
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2023
Last Revised: 19 Apr 2023
571
2.State Constitutional Rights and Democratic Proportionality
Jessica Bulman-Pozen and Miriam Seifter
Columbia University – Law School and University of Wisconsin Law School
Date Posted: 01 May 2023
Last Revised: 01 May 2023
202
3.The Neglected Value of Effective Government
Richard H. Pildes
New York University School of Law
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2023
Last Revised: 06 Jun 2023
171
4.After the Oral Argument in Moore v. Harper
Michael Weingartner and Carolyn ShapiroI
ndependent and IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2023
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2023
113
5.Adversarial Election Administration
Rebecca Green
William & Mary Law Schoo
lDate Posted: 08 May 2023
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2023
98
6.Political Corruption
Michael D. Gilbert and Deborah Hellman
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2023
Last Revised: 24 Apr 2023
90
7.The New Laboratories of Democracy
Gerald S. Dickinson
University of Pittsburgh – School of Law
Date Posted: 12 May 2023
Last Revised: 12 May 2023
79
8.Ballot Access
Derek T. Muller
Notre Dame Law School
Date Posted: 11 May 2023
Last Revised: 26 May 2023
67
9.Donating to the District Attorney
Michael MorseCarissa Byrne Hessick and Nathan Pinnell
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, University of North Carolina School of Law and Prosecutors and Politics Project
Date Posted: 04 May 2023
Last Revised: 04 May 2023
65
10.Federal Election Administration Laws
Justin Weinstein-Tull
Arizona State University College of Law
Date Posted: 01 May 2023
Last Revised: 01 May 2023
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New Hein Online Resource on Voting Rights and Election Law

This looks like it will be a very valuable resource! (Institutional subscription required)

Subtopics:

Here’s the list of the top 10 most cited authors (to be updated annually):

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AALS Conference on Defending Democracy

The Association of American Law Schools has announced a virtual Conference on Defending Democracy, May 4 from 11am-4pm ET:

The Conference will consist of three panels focusing on the following topics: 1) the State of the Union three years following the January 6 insurrection; 2) the role legal education plays in defending democracy; 3) and identifying the challenges to our democracy that are specifically rooted in Election Law.

It’s a star-studded event: Dean Mark Alexander, AALS President and host for the day, will be moderating the first panel with Deans Kevin Johnson, Kimberly Mutcherson, and Andrew Perlman; Dean Erwin Chemerinsky will be moderating the second panel with Dean Danielle Conway, Dean Anthony Crowell, Prof. Kate Shaw, and Dean Dan Tokaji; and I’ll be trying not to embarrass myself moderating the third panel with Prof. Guy-Uriel Charles, Prof. Franita Tolson, and FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub.

Hope you can join us! More information, including a link to register, here.

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“LexisNexis Launches New Voting Law Resource to Provide a Transparent Overview of the U.S. Election Landscape”

Release:

 LexisNexis® Legal & Professional and the LexisNexis® Rule of Law Foundation today announced the launch of the LexisNexis® U.S. Voting Laws & Legislation Center. The initial release of the tool provides free, public access to a curated and expanding collection of U.S. federal and state election and voting laws, including proposed legislation, codes, voting related information, and graphics.

Leveraging legislative data from State Net® and codes from Lexis+®, the U.S. Voting Laws & Legislation Center provides full-text access and near real-time updates to existing and proposed state and federal laws, presenting law makers, journalists, non-profit organizations, legal professionals, academics, students and the general public with timely, fact-based, unbiased records of voting and election laws.

For proposed legislation, an interactive heat map of the U.S. highlights proposed legislation across all 50 states, with 10 issue-based filters, such as early voting, to help researchers expedite and narrow down their search. For existing, enacted legislation, the Voting Center lets users compare data in table form across different states on issues such as no excuse absentee voting. . . .

This looks to be a pretty useful resource. Here’s the link: https://www.lexisnexisrolfoundation.org/voting-laws.aspx#/votinglaw/landing Among other things, “The Center provides full-text access and near real-time updates to more than 20,000 existing state and federal voting laws and more than 2,000 proposed bills, with interactive data visualizations, customizable, sharable and downloadable research content, and select news coverage from several LexisNexis resources. “

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The Free 2022 Supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, Tokaji, and Stephanopoulos, Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th Edition) is Now Available

You can download the free Supplement here. The Supplement is current through the Supreme Court’s October 2021 term ending June 30, 2022, and includes excerpts from the district court’s recent decision in Eastman v. Thompson, involving potential criminal charges connected to the 2020 U.S. presidential elections.

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