Great opportunity for new Legislation scholars! … Continue reading
Category Archives: pedagogy
I have posted my fall Election Law and Legislation syllabi. … Continue reading
Carolina Academic Press has opened preorders for the 2015 supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen & Tokaji, Election Law–Cases and Materials (5th ed. 2012). If you are an instructor using the book, a pdf is available for your planning purposes now by … Continue reading
The 2015 supplement (152 pages) to Lowenstein, Hasen, and Tokaji, Election Law Cases and Materials, is going to the printer today. Instructors using the book can write to crutan (at) cap-press.com to get a pdf of the book for planning purposes … Continue reading
Interesting Melanie Mason report. Great exercise for McGeorge students! … Continue reading
The 2015 supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, and Tokaji is shipping in time for fall classes, and will now include edited versions of the Evenwel one person, one vote case in the district court and the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Williams-Yulee. Here’s an earlier … Continue reading
Frank Askin has written this article for the Clinical Law Review. Here is the abstract: Every General Election Day, students from the Rutgers Law School Constitutional Rights Clinic, under faculty supervision, represent voters who need orders to vote. These are voters … Continue reading
For instructors who use Lowenstein, Hasen, & Tokaji, Election Law—Cases and Materials (5th ed. 2012): There will be a printed 2015 Supplement, available in early August (proofs will be available sooner through the publisher). The ISBN for book ordering is … Continue reading
Then you might want to check out my Examples and Explanations study aid. From the book description: An up-to-date, user-friendly, and clear student-oriented treatise tackling the complex subjects in this field, including statutory interpretation, lobbying, bribery, campaign finance law, and … Continue reading
A ChapinBlog. … Continue reading
Here: RECENT TOP PAPERS for all papers first announced in the last 60 days 3 Dec 2014 through 1 Feb 2015 Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 99 Are Aliens ‘People of the Commonwealth of Australia’? David Faulkner Independent Date … Continue reading
Announcement via email: The 15th annual workshop on Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship, co-taught by Lee Epstein and Andrew D. Martin, will run from June 15-June 17 at Washington University in St. Louis. The workshop is for law school faculty, lawyers, … Continue reading
[Bumped to the top—Amazon is now offering the book at 15% off.] If so, then you might be interested in my new book: Legislation, Statutory Interpretation and Election Law: Examples and Explanations. From the Amazon description: An up-to-date, user-friendly, and … Continue reading
[Bumped to the top — on my way to this event.] I am very excited to participate in this event for the University of Chicago Legal Forum. (I’ll be presenting a paper on uniformity in election administration.) Here are the … Continue reading
NYT’s The Upshot weighs in. … Continue reading
Dakota S. Rudesill, Christopher J. Walker, and Daniel P. Tokaji have posted this paper on SSRN: This Essay urges that Legislation be conceived of not just as a single course, but as a set of curricular and extracurricular offerings that … Continue reading
This looks to be a very important Leg/Reg book (available for Spring 2015 classes) which will partially compete with Eskridge’s own excellent co-authored Legislation casebook. … Continue reading
Nick Stephanopoulos has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Election Law Journal). Here is the abstract: In the last couple years, new editions of the two most prominent election law casebooks have been released, and one entirely new casebook has been … Continue reading
[Bumping to the top for the start of classes.] [UPDATE: You can now order the book at Amazon, or electronically as a Kindle Book, or directly from the publisher.] I am happy to announce that you can now buy my … Continue reading
The following announcement arrived via email: To: Board of Elections officials, Prosecuting Attorneys, County Political Parties, Candidates, and legal counsel : The Academy of Continuing Legal Education program, “Ohio Election Law 2014.2” will be presented August 27, 2014. This program … Continue reading
Here’s my new Examples and Explanations study aid. … Continue reading
(my bimonthly listing) Here: RECENT TOP PAPERS for all papers first announced in the last 60 days 6 Jun 2014 through 5 Aug 2014 Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 54 Voter Privacy in the Age of Big Data Ira Rubinstein … Continue reading
[UPDATE: The 2014 Supplement is now available for purchase at Amazon. Professors who adopt the Lowenstein/Hasen/Tokaji casebook for their course can receive a complimentary copy of the supplement for themselves and their students by emailing their request to crutan (at) … Continue reading
I have posted it here. … Continue reading
Josh Douglas writes: Dear Election Law Community, I’m thrilled to announce that the AALS has granted our petition to create a new Section on Election Law! This is a significant accomplishment for our field. Thanks to all of you who … Continue reading
When I teach campaign finance, I like to use the radio ads that were at issue in the case. The ads used to be posted easily on the WRTL website, but they are no longer in the spot they used … Continue reading
I’ve turned in a completed first draft of this book, with the hopes that it will be out in time for fall classes. This book, part of Aspen’s great Examples & Explanations series, is a student-friendly treatise with questions and … Continue reading
Congratulations to Ned Foley, Mike Pitts, and Josh Douglas on the publication of their new casebook with Aspen. This makes the fifth casebook in the field (meaning there are just about the same number of casebooks as people teaching the … Continue reading
It’s not yet on the West page, but you can find it on Amazon and I have received a hard copy of Hillel Y. Levin, Statutory Interpretation: A Practical Lawyering Course. It seems meant for a statutory interpretation course or … Continue reading
Dakota Rudesill makes the convincing case. … Continue reading
Josh Douglas emails: Dear Fellow Election Law Professors, We are making our final push on petitioning for the creation of a new AALS Section on Election Law. We had a good turnout at the Open Session during the AALS Annual … Continue reading
This was a great in-person symposium and I look forward to reading the final contributions: VOLUME 81 · NUMBER 6 · DECEMBER 2013 FOREWORD Political Law Spencer Overton 81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1783 (2013) ESSAYS Gender Unbound? Kareem Crayton … Continue reading
Here: RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Election Law & Voting Rights (Topic) October 4, 2013 to December 3, 2013 Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 179 Race or … Continue reading
What an opportunity! … Continue reading
Nice introduction to teaching the Voting Rights Act. [Links] … Continue reading
Enjoy! Great election law teaching tool. … Continue reading
You can find it here. … Continue reading
I’m teaching the course as a hybrid seminar/exam course for the first time. In case it is useful, here is my draft syllabus. I’ll be posting my undergraduate campaign finance syllabus some time in August. … Continue reading
I’ll try to post the SSRN Recent Hits in this area every two months: RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Election Law & Voting Rights (Topic) May … Continue reading
The 2013 Supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, and Tokaji, Election Law–Cases and Materials (5th ed. 2013), is now available for download at this link: http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2013-supp-final.pdf The Supplement is up-to-date, and includes edited versions of Shelby County v. Holder, ATP v. Bullock, … Continue reading
Kudos to Brookings and AEI for this. Free to boot! … Continue reading
Then you are in luck. Late this month, the 2013 supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, and Tokaji, Election Law–Cases and Materials (5th edition 2012) will be posted and made available free of charge to all instructors assigning LHT to their students. … Continue reading
Message from Josh Douglas: Dan Tokaji and I have been exploring the possibility of creating a new AALS Election Law Section. We’re writing to see if there are any other professors who would like to be involved. The process for … Continue reading
I’m delighted to announced that I’ve signed a deal with Aspen to write: “Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Election Law: Examples and Explanations.” This will follow Aspen’s well-received “Examples and Explanations” format, essentially a student-oriented treatise with mini-essay questions and answers … Continue reading
Troy McCurry, teaching a campaign finance course at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law, passes on the following announcement: On Tuesday, April 30, from 6:30-7:30 in the Slowinski Courtroom of The Columbus School of Law at CUA, three students from … Continue reading
This is a post for instructors who will be teaching a course on Election Law in the fall. Dan Tokaji and I will soon begin work on the 2013 supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, and Tokaji, Election Law–Cases and Materials (5th … Continue reading
TaxProf reports (h/t Derek Muller). … Continue reading
You can find it here. And it will be available later on the right side of this blog under “Election Law Resources.” … Continue reading
You’ll be able to watch a webcast of Foxes, Henhouses, and Commissions: Assessing the Nonpartisan Model in Election Administration, Redistricting, and Campaign Finance beginning at 9 am Pacific at this link. This same link will have an archived version of … Continue reading
The University of Toledo College of law will have this interesting symposium on October 19. Great line up, and sure to be interesting keynote speaker: OH SOS Jon Husted. … Continue reading