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Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN

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1.Give Parents the Vote
Joshua Kleinfeld and Stephen E. Sachs
Northwestern University – Pritzker School of Law and Harvard Law School
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2024
Last Revised: 25 Jul 2024		1,410
2.Election Law for the New Electorate
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Harvard Law School
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2024
Last Revised: 21 Jun 2024		849
3.States Legislating Against Digital Deception: A Comparative Study of Laws to Mitigate Deepfake Risks in American Political Advertisements
Hayden Goldberg
University of Oxford – Oxford Internet Institute
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2024
Last Revised: 13 Aug 2024		133
4.Narrow But Deep: The McCulloch Principle, Collective-Action Theory, and Section Three Enforcement
Neil Siegel
Duke University School of Law
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2024
Last Revised: 29 Jul 2024		58
5.Mergers, Lobbying, and Elections: Is there a “Curse of Bigness”?
Matteo Broso and Tommaso M. Valletti
University of Turin – Collegio Carlo Alberto and Imperial College Business School
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2024
Last Revised: 12 Jul 2024		35
6.Election Exceptionalism in Justiciability and Related Doctrines: Constitutional Compensation in Light of Purcell
Vikram D. Amar
University of California, Davis – School of Law
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2024
Last Revised: 16 Jul 2024		33
7.Kansas & Fusion Voting: The Expansion and Shrinkage of Democratic Participation & Responsive Representation in the Sunflower State
Joel Rogers
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2024
Last Revised: 11 Jul 2024		29
8.States as Bulwarks Against, or Potential Facilitators of, Election Subversion
Richard L. Hasen
UCLA School of Law – UCLA School of Law
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2024
Last Revised: 16 Jul 2024		20
9.The Section 33 Democratic Accountability Concept: Proposing a Two-Pronged Approach for Judicial Review
Caitlin Salvino
University of Toronto – Faculty of Law
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2024
Last Revised: 17 Jul 2024		17
10.The Electoral College
Katherine Shaw
University of Pennsylvania – Carey Law School
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2024
Last Revised: 13 Aug 2024		16
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The Free 2024 Supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, Tokaji, and Stephanopoulos, Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th Edition) is Now Available

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You can download the free Supplement here. The Supplement is current through the Supreme Court’s October 2023 term ending July 2, 2024, and it includes edited versions of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in Moore v. Harper and Trump v. Anderson on disqualification under the 14th Amendment, analysis of the Supreme Court’s decisions in the Allen v. Milligan case involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Alexander case on racial gerrymandering, and excerpts from the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Trump v. United States, on potential presidential immunity from criminal charges connected to the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

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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1.Did Shelby County v. Holder Increase the Racial Turnout Gap?
Kevin Morris and Michael Miller
New York University (NYU) – Brennan Center for Justice and Barnard College, Columbia University
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2024
Last Revised: 16 May 2024		221
2.Standing for Elections in State Courts
Miriam Seifter and Adam B. Sopko
University of Wisconsin Law School and State Democracy Research Initiative
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2024
Last Revised: 25 Apr 2024		99
3.Coordination in Plain Sight: The Breadth and Uses of “Redboxing” in Congressional Election
sGabriel Foy-Sutherland and Saurav Ghosh
The University of Chicago and Independent
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2024
Last Revised: 24 Apr 2024		81
4.Elections on Trial: A Critical Review of the procedure for Challenging Parliamentary Elections in Ghana
Joel Telfer
University of Ghana School of Law
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2024
Last Revised: 23 Apr 2024		70
5.Democracy’s Core Institution: Clean Elections Across the World
Marina Nord, Juraj Medzihorsky and Staffan I. Lindberg
University of Gothenburg – V-Dem Institute, Durham University – School of Government and International Affairs and University of Gothenburg – Varieties of Democracy Institute
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2024
Last Revised: 29 May 2024		62
6.Expanding Democracy: The Case for Enfranchising Noncitizens in Local Elections
Maya Kammourieh
University of Virginia (UVA) School of Law
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2024
Last Revised: 23 Apr 2024		53
7.Minimal Stable Voting Rules
Hector Hermida-Rivera
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2024
Last Revised: 19 Apr 2024		41
8.Prioritizing the People in the Procurement of Election Infrastructure
Dennis Mema
George Washington University, Law School
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2024
Last Revised: 03 Apr 2024		28
9.Fraudulent Vote Dilution
Jason Marisam
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Date Posted: 01 May 2024
Last Revised: 01 May 2024		28
10.Adapting Gingles & Retaining Voter Power: Applying the VRA to State Judicial Retention Elections
Jake Mazeitis
Independent
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2024
Last Revised: 29 May 2024
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SSRN Relaunches Election Law and Voting Rights E-Journal

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In response in my post expressing disappointment about the loss of an SSRN journal dedicated to election law, I’m very happy to announce that the ejournal has been relaunched!

You can use this link to subscribe to the ejournal (you must have a free ssrn account to do so).

I’ll get back to posting my top ten lists of recent election law scholarship about every two months as I’ve been doing.

Thanks to SSRN for restoring this list. We in the field depend on it!

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If You’ve Been Wondering Where My Top Ten List in Recent Election Law Scholarship Posted on SSRN Has Been….Some Bad News

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About every two months, I feature on ELB the top ten recent articles in the Election Law topic posted on SSRN. I personally find it a great way to keep up on scholarship in the field.

Unfortunately, SSRN for now has discontinued the Election Law category, folding the article into its topic on Legislation and Statutory Interpretation. (I write in both fields, and consider them separate fields with a few overlapping topics.)

I’m hoping SSRN will see fit to bring Election Law back as a topic at some point. If it does, my top ten lists will be back.

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New Video Casebook with All Star Cast Teaches About Key Election Law Cases

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Two of my favorite people, Sasha Natapoff and Guy Charles, have put this together and I can’t wait to watch all in the series:

Contributors and Cases

Professor Tabatha Abu El-Haj
Drexel U. Thomas R. Kline School of Law

Reynolds v. Sims (1964)

In this video, Professor Abu El-Haj explains how the Supreme Court established the foundational principle of one-person one-vote.

Professor Guy-Uriel Charles
Harvard Law School

Lassiter v. Northampton (1959)

In this video, Professor Charles explains how the Supreme Court upheld North Carolina’s literacy test requirement even though it was widely used to disenfranchise Black voters.Professor Yasmin Dawood
University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Harper v. VA Bd. of Elections (1966)

In this video, Professor Dawood explains how the Supreme Court held poll taxes to be an unconstitutional violation of the Equal Protection Clause.

Professor Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Shelby County v. Holder (2013)

In this video, Professor Fuentes-Rohwer explains how the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act as unconstitutional, throwing doubt on Congressional authority and decades of voting rights jurisprudence.

Professor Michael Kang
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Citizens United v. FEC (2010)

In this video, Professor Kang explains how the Supreme Court decided that the First Amendment bars constraints on independent electioneering expenditures, thereby deregulating a vast swath of election spending.

Professor Ellen Katz
University of Michigan Law School

Thornburg v. Gingles (1986)

In this video, Professor Katz explains how the Supreme Court created the basic framework for understanding and applying Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the meaning of racially polarized voting.

Professor Justin Levitt
LMU Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

Shaw v. Reno (1993)

In this video, Professor Levitt explains how the Supreme Court changed the core meaning of racial gerrymandering by permitting white voters to bring claims of discrimination.

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Schedule for Wash U. Election Law Conference

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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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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. Bastos, Marco 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 Wrigley, Miikka 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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