This weekend, I’ll blog about some recent election law scholarship. I thought I’d start by highlighting a few student notes that caught my eye in recent weeks:

Kyle Apple (Iowa), Gerrymandering the Presidency: Why Federal District Popular Voting Presents a Problematic Alternative to the Winner-Take-All Electoral College

Rowan E. Conybeare (North Carolina), Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Finally Force North Carolina To Protect Marginalized Communities’ Right To Vote, or Did History Repeat Itself?

Tanner Hensen (Wake Forest), North Carolina’s Redistricting Saga

Devin Humphreys (Notre Dame), After Further Review: Towards a Rebuttable Presumption in Favor of Ballot Validity

Nicholas LeFevre (Texas Tech), The “Burlap” Blindfold: Increasing Transparency In State Judicial Elections Through Updated Candidate Solicitation Laws

Jason Nagel (Cardozo), Standardizing State Vote-by-Mail Deadlines in Federal Elections

Jackie Rosen (Utah), Religious Gerrymandering: A New Avenue for Redistricting Challenges?

Kate Uyeda (Vanderbilt), Challenging the Challengers: How Partisan Citizen Observers Contribute to Disenfranchisement and Undermine Election Integrity