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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

Here:

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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Slight Delay in Shipping 7th Edition of Election Law—Cases and Materials (Information for Instructors and Students)

Global supply chain issues are affecting the arrival time of books, and the 7th edition of Lowenstein, Hasen, Tokaji, and Stephanopoulos, Election Law–Cases and Materials is running a bit late—shipping by the end of this week.

If you are an instructor and you’ve assigned the book for the spring semester and need to get electronic access to a chapter or two for your students, please reach out to me. And if you are a student looking for the book, please pass this message onto your instructor if you haven’t heard anything yet about book availability.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

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Election Law–Cases and Materials (Lowenstein, Hasen, Tokaji, Stephanoupolos) Now at the Printer and Ready for January Classes

I’m pleased to announce that the new 7th edition of Election Law–Cases and Materials is being printed now and will be ready in time for spring classes. Here is a detailed table of contents. The accompanying teacher’s manual should be ready in early December. Here’s a description of the new edition, and please reach out with any questions:

ISBN978-1-5310-2081-1
e-ISBN978-1-5310-2082-8

Election Law

Cases and Materials

Seventh Edition

by Daniel Hays LowensteinRichard L. HasenDaniel P. TokajiNicholas Stephanopoulos

Forthcoming December 2021 • casebound

Tags: Election Law

2022 Teacher’s Manual forthcoming


The new student-friendly seventh edition of Election Law: Cases and Materials fully covers developments in election law through 2021, including extensive coverage of recent partisan and racial gerrymandering challenges; campaign finance cases in the Citizens United era; and challenges to new voter identification laws and other voting restrictions. It continues to include perspectives from law and political science, and it is appropriate in both law and political science courses. The extensive campaign finance coverage makes the book appropriate for a campaign finance seminar as well.

New material in this edition includes coverage of the Supreme Court’s most recent cases on the Voting Rights Act and vote denial (Brnovich), donor disclosure and the First Amendment (AFPF v. Bonta), campaign contributions (Thompson v. Hebdon), bribery (Kelly v. United States), and the Electoral College (Chiafalo v. Washington); discussion of controversies and litigation surrounding the 2020 election and COVID-19-related election administration changes; and a completely rewritten section on partisan gerrymandering, including an edited version of the Supreme Court’s June 2019 decision in Rucho v. Common Cause.


If you are a professor teaching in this field you may request a complimentary copy.

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Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN

Here:

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 06 Aug 2021 – 05 Oct 2021

RankPaperDownloads
1.Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States
Richard L. Hasen
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2021
Last Revised: 05 Oct 2021
3,266
2.Gerrylaundering
Robert Yablon
University of Wisconsin Law School
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2021
Last Revised: 08 Sep 2021
110
3.Electoral Votes Regularly Given
Derek T. Muller
University of Iowa – College of Law
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Last Revised: 16 Sep 2021
91
4.Ostracism and Democracy
Alex Zhang
Yale Law School
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2021
Last Revised: 21 Aug 2021
81
5.Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women’s Legal Right to Hold Public Office
Elizabeth D. Katz
Washington University in St. Louis – School of Law
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2021
Last Revised: 23 Sep 2021
70
6.Debunking the Non-Delegation Doctrine for State Regulation of Federal Elections
Mark Krass
Stanford Department of Political Science
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2021
Last Revised: 18 Sep 2021
56
7.Hyperpartisan Campaign Finance
Michael S. Kang
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2021
Last Revised: 13 Sep 2021
55
8.Tournament Elections with Round-Robin Primaries: A Sports Analogy for Electoral Reform
Edward B. Foley
Ohio State University (OSU) – Michael E. Moritz College of Law
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2021
Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
51
9.Election Laws Disproportionately Disadvantaging Racial Minorities, and the Futility of Trying to Solve Today’s Problems with Yesterday’s Never Very Good Tools
Gary J. Simson
Mercer University – Walter F. George School of LawCornell University – Law School
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2021
Last Revised: 19 Aug 2021
44
10.Money and Ideology: Evidence from Candidate Manifestos
Julia CageCaroline Le Pennec and Elisa Mougin
Sciences Po Paris Department of Economics, HEC Montreal, Department of applied economics and Sciences Po – Department of Economics
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2021
Last Revised: 03 Aug 2021
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For Instructors Teaching Election Law in the Spring: Election Law–Cases and Materials Ready for Preorder and For Classroom Use in January

The Seventh Edition of Lowenstein, Hasen, Tokaji, and Stephanapoulos, Election Law–Cases and Materials will be ready for use in time for Spring classes. I’m very excited about this new edition! Please reach out if you are an instructor and you will need early access to page proofs (which we are going through now). Here’s the book description:

The new student-friendly Seventh Edition of Election Law: Cases and Materials fully covers developments in election law through 2021, including extensive coverage of recent partisan and racial gerrymandering challenges; campaign finance cases in the Citizens United era; and challenges to new voter identification laws and other voting restrictions. It continues to include perspectives from law and political science, and it is appropriate in both law and political science courses. The extensive campaign finance coverage makes the book appropriate for a campaign finance seminar as well.

New material in this edition includes coverage of the Supreme Court’s most recent cases on the Voting Rights Act and vote denial (Brnovich), donor disclosure and the First Amendment (AFPF v. Bonta), campaign contributions (Thompson v. Hebdon), bribery (Kelly v. United States), and the Electoral College (Chiafalo v. Washington); discussion of controversies and litigation surrounding the 2020 election and COVID-19-related election administration changes; and a completely rewritten section on partisan gerrymandering, including an edited version of the Supreme Court’s June 2019 decision in Rucho v. Common Cause.

An updated teacher’s manual is coming as well. Thanks for your interest!

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Announcing the New Fair Elections and Free Speech Center at UCI Law

I’m delighted to share the news, scooped by Politico, that my UCI Law colleague David Kaye and I have started the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center at the law school. Why such a Center?

As I state in our opening press release, American democracy is under increasing strain, and the 2020 election exacerbated threats to the rule of law and to public confidence in fair elections. Much of that is thanks to the rise of social media. The new Center will look at what’s wrong, and what can be done, to strengthen democratic institutions in the U.S. and around the world.

And as David Kaye says, ““We are launching the Center at a moment when democratic participation is under attack not only in the United States but worldwide. In addition to a domestic focus rooted in the fundamentals of American law, we will bring a global perspective, using human rights norms to research and advocate for freedom of expression and public participation as central pillars of democratic societies.”

As we explain at the Center’s website:

Established in 2021 after the contentious 2020 U.S. Presidential elections, which culminated in the dangerous January 6, 2021 insurrection in the United States Capitol, the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center at UCI Law is unique in its focus among U.S. and global institutions. It is dedicated solely to advancing an understanding of, and offering means to counter, threats to the stability and legitimacy of democratic governments exacerbated by the unregulated growth of digital media and other technological changes in mass communication. The Center will facilitate deep scholarship on American law, politics, and democracy as well as on global norms and institutions.

We have assembled a world-class advisory board to help guide our mission, which is to strengthen democracy and the rule of law in the digital age both in the U.S. and around the world. I’m blown away by the folks who signed on to advise us.

And we are going to hit the ground running, with a series of free, virtual events, open to all in the fall. Among the most important events is a conference on Election Subversion, on Friday Sept. 24. Speakers include Georgia SOS Brad Raffensperger. Here’s the tentative agenda:

The Fair Elections and Free Speech Center will also have a three-part lunch series on challenges in global elections, beginning w a Sept. 1 event looking at disinformation in elections in Uganda, Israel, and the Netherlands.

will also have a three-part lunch series on disinformation in American elections. One panel features Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Orange County Registrar Neal Kelly. Others will feature social scientists and law profs.

I’m also excited to moderate a Fair Elections and Free Speech Center conversation on Sept. 9, Is the U.S. Constitution Up to the Task of Preserving American Democracy?, with Jack Balkin, Michele Goodwin, and Michael Klarman.

We have much bigger plans for the Center going forward, as we begin our building and fundraising efforts. David Kaye and I cannot thank former UCI Law Dean Song Richardson enough for her early leadership on this project, and the tremendous law school staff.

You can watch this video, in which David Kaye and I explain why we started the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center, and what we hope to do:

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