Release: Today journalist Barton Gellman joins the leadership team of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law as Senior Advisor. He will work with the organization’s experts to respond to the threats of abuse of power and the assault… Continue reading

Release: Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is pleased to announce that Senior Vice President and Legal Director Adav Noti has been named the organization’s Executive Director, effective January 1, 2024. In this role, Adav will lead CLC’s programmatic activity and operations… Continue reading

The following is a remembrance from Jeff Wice: New York and the nation lost a voting rights pioneer and leader last week. Dr. John L. Flatueau, a professor at CUNY’s Medgar Evers College, passed away suddenly on December 30th.… Continue reading

The following is a guest post from Eugene Mazo: Morris H. Kramer, the plaintiff in Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15, 395 U.S. 621 (1969), passed away on September 11, 2023. I got to know Kramer toward… Continue reading

for winning a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. Ian and PD’s work has been absolutely essential in helping to protect threats to U.S. democracy. And I’m so glad to see MacArthur recognized this key intervention.

Leading voting rights litigator and champion, and overall mensch, Gerry Hebert has passed away. (I had mentioned on this blog his illness last May and was glad to have had a chance to talk to him and learn how much… Continue reading

Great news for BPC. Kim is former Washington state secretary of state and was most recent working with DHS on election security. She spoke at our recent conference about fair and safe 2024 elections. Congrats all around!

Here’s my yearly roundup of election law academic hires, promotions moves, visits, accolades: Wilfred Codrington was promoted to associate professor of law at Brooklyn and awarded the additional title of Dean’s Research Scholar. He will be visiting at Texas A&M… Continue reading

Our friend Gerry Hebert, with a long and distinguished career in voting rights at the Department of Justice and at the Campaign Legal Center (not to mention his role as “Bailout King“), is ill with brain cancer. Jerry… Continue reading

LAT: Michael Berman, who shaped California politics for generations as the mastermind of Los Angeles’ vaunted “Berman-Waxman Political Machine,” died Friday. He was 75. Berman burst onto the political scene before he was old enough to vote, running Henry… Continue reading