Richard Briffault has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Valparaiso University Law Review). Here is the abstract: Concern about the role of corporate money has been a longstanding theme in American politics. The first permanent federal campaign finance law –… Continue reading

[This is the latest in a series of short reflections on new books in campaign finance which I am working my way through as I write my own manuscript on the subject.] Professors Ron Collins and David Skover, two law… Continue reading

I have posted this very short piece on SSRN (forthcoming, NYU Law Review Online).  Here is the abstract: This short symposium piece is a response to Justin Levitt’s comments on Dean Robert Post’s concept of “electoral integrity,” which Dean Post… Continue reading

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy has posted this draft on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court used to regularly police the line between political and economic spheres and the line between Church and State. The Court in 2014 abandoned both… Continue reading

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Bloomberg BNA: Lawyers for the Federal Election Commission and the Republican National Committee are arguing in court about whether a new RNC lawsuit challenging the ban on unlimited “soft money” contributions to political parties should be heard under expedited… Continue reading