Election Law and Litigation

New to the Second Edition:

• Developments from the 2016 and 2020 elections
• Recent cases from the Supreme Court and lower courts, including on redistricting and gerrymandering, campaign finance, foreign interference with elections, and the voting process

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Tightly edited cases to provide professors with assignments students can reasonably digest and that professors can reasonably teach within the confines of a typical law school course
• Useful notes that help serve as classroom discussion tools
• Up to date with the most recent Supreme Court and lower court decisions
• Student- and professor-friendly: Each unit is designed to correspond to one hour of classroom teaching, with the cases and notes edited to conform to tight word limits, so that the amount of reading for each class is suitably tailored to the amount of time for class discussion
• Streamlined, chronological approach: This casebook tracks the election lifecycle in chronological order—from defining the district to run in, to appear on the ballot, to running a campaign (including spending and campaign finance), to register to vote and the casting and counting of ballots (including post-election disputes)
• Topical, straightforward organization
• Balanced, practical coverage: Significant focus is placed on election administration, the nuts-and-bolts of running an election, and post-election controversies, with considerable devotion to all primary areas of election law, including districting and campaign finance, without overemphasizing any particular area to the detriment of others
• Nonpartisan viewpoint: Allows students and professors to use the book comfortably, no matter their own personal political or ideological perspectives, and in a way that creates a classroom dynamic that is balanced and open to various partisan and political views