The UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, in partnership with the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service and Clinton Presidential Center, will host the 2025 Arnold Lecture and Symposium on Feb. 20, 2025, at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.
…The lecture and symposium, “Courts and Democracy: Reflections on the 2024 Election,” is scheduled one month to the day after the Presidential Inauguration, and will feature an ideologically diverse panel of election law experts. The event’s keynote speaker will be Dan Tokaji, the Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. Tokaji is a leading authority in the field of election law. He has been interviewed and quoted by outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Tokaji’s scholarship addresses questions of voting rights, free speech, and democratic inclusion.
Derek T. Muller and Eugene D. Mazo, nationally recognized scholars in the field of election law, will also speak. Muller, a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame Law School, researches the role of states in the administration of federal elections, the constitutional contours of voting rights and election administration, the limits of judicial power in the domain of elections, and the Electoral College. Mazo is the associate professor of law and associate professor of political science at Duquesne University. His focus is on the theory and practice of democracy and he serves as editor of The Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (2024)….