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Dean's Desk: Iu Maurer Research Focusing On Most Topical Issues Of 2020, Austen L. Parrish
Dean's Desk: Iu Maurer Research Focusing On Most Topical Issues Of 2020, Austen L. Parrish
Austen Parrish (2014-2022)
The three major stories of 2020 — the COVID-19 pandemic, the heightened awareness of racial injustice and the election — have made this year one that we will remember. While we couldn’t have envisioned all that would happen at the beginning of the year, our faculty are producing useful and thought-provoking scholarship on all these topics.
I often use my Dean’s Desk columns to celebrate student and alumni achievement, to describe new and innovative programs in our curriculum, or to share how the law school supports and collaborates with community organizations and the courts to provide pro bono legal services …
November 8, 2020: Joe Biden Wins, Bruce Ledewitz
November 8, 2020: Joe Biden Wins, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Joe Biden Wins“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
The Importance Of Transparent Elections, Rebecca Green
The Importance Of Transparent Elections, Rebecca Green
Popular Media
No abstract provided.
Recounts And Ballot Challenges In The 2020 Presidential Election: Legal Expert Provides Insights, Bruce Brumberg, Rebecca Green
Recounts And Ballot Challenges In The 2020 Presidential Election: Legal Expert Provides Insights, Bruce Brumberg, Rebecca Green
Popular Media
No abstract provided.
November 5, 2020: Count All The Pennsylvania Ballots--Conservative Justices Are Seeing The Ghost Of Bush V. Gore, Bruce Ledewitz
November 5, 2020: Count All The Pennsylvania Ballots--Conservative Justices Are Seeing The Ghost Of Bush V. Gore, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Count All the Pennsylvania Ballots--Conservative Justices Are Seeing the Ghost of Bush v. Gore“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
November 4, 2020: Looks Like President Trump Was Reelected, Bruce Ledewitz
November 4, 2020: Looks Like President Trump Was Reelected, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Looks Like President Trump Was Reelected“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Those Who Can Vote Are Duty-Bound To Do So, A. Benjamin Spencer
Those Who Can Vote Are Duty-Bound To Do So, A. Benjamin Spencer
Popular Media
No abstract provided.
Eight Months Later, Ellen D. Katz
Eight Months Later, Ellen D. Katz
Reviews
Rick Hasen’s Election Meltdown provides a concise and scathing analysis of what ails the American electoral process. Rick identifies four “principal dangers”—namely, voter suppression, “pockets of incompetence” in election administration, “dirty tricks,” and “incendiary rhetoric” about stolen or rigged elections. He argues that these dangers have contributed to past dysfunctional elections and are sure to infect future ones. Election Meltdown closes with some proposals to temper the identified dangers so as to make voting less difficult and restore confidence in the electoral process.
More Than The Vote: 16-Year-Old Voting And The Risks Of Legal Adulthood, Katharine B. Silbaugh
More Than The Vote: 16-Year-Old Voting And The Risks Of Legal Adulthood, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Faculty Scholarship
Advocates of 16-year-old voting have not grappled with two significant risks to adolescents of their agenda. First, a right to vote entails a corresponding accessibility to campaigns. Campaign speech is highly protected, and 16-year-old voting invites more unfettered access to minors by commercial, government, and political interests than current law tolerates. Opening 16-year-olds to campaign access undermines a considered legal system of managing the potential exploitation of adolescents, which sometimes includes direct regulation of entities and also gives parents authority in both law and culture to prohibit, manage, or supervise contacts with every kind of person interested in communicating with …
Undefeated - Elections Matter Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown
Undefeated - Elections Matter Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown
Undefeated Exhibit Panels
Undefeated - Elections matter poster
The poster draws attention to the ways that Congressional districts have been mapped inconsistently.
Undefeated - Elections Affect A Lot Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown
Undefeated - Elections Affect A Lot Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown
Undefeated Exhibit Panels
No abstract provided.
Despite Eld’S Lengthy Statement On Ge2020, Some Key Questions Remain Unanswered, Tan K. B. Eugene
Despite Eld’S Lengthy Statement On Ge2020, Some Key Questions Remain Unanswered, Tan K. B. Eugene
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Singaporeans went to the polls on July 10 amid an unprecedented set of public health and safety precautionary measures put in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19 infections. Among other things, GE2020 would also be remembered for long queues at some polling stations and the less than positive voter experience. There was also the first-ever extension of polling hours nationwide by two hours to 10pm.
22nd Annual Open Government Summit: Office Of The Attorney General: Access To Public Records Act & Open Meetings Act, Attorney General State Of Rhode Island
22nd Annual Open Government Summit: Office Of The Attorney General: Access To Public Records Act & Open Meetings Act, Attorney General State Of Rhode Island
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
Judicial Nullification Of Presidential Elections In Africa: Peter Mutharika V Lazarus Chakera And Saulos Chilima In Context, Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, James Thuo Gathii
Judicial Nullification Of Presidential Elections In Africa: Peter Mutharika V Lazarus Chakera And Saulos Chilima In Context, Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, James Thuo Gathii
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
In contemporary Africa, the judicialization of presidential elections between incumbents and challengers in courts is becoming increasingly visible. The latest example of this judicialization is the Malawi case of Peter Mutharika v Lazarus Chakera and Saulos Chilima, which successfully triggered a repeat election in which an opposition politician defeated an incumbent. This article examines the consequences and implications of this case and compares the Malawi decision to cases in Kenya and Nigeria. It further analyzes the backlash on the Malawi justices from the executive and the subsequent solidarity seen from both legal and civil society. The article concludes that the …
Ge2020 Commentary: Assessing The Voters’ Message To Pap (And Other Parties), Tan K. B. Eugene
Ge2020 Commentary: Assessing The Voters’ Message To Pap (And Other Parties), Tan K. B. Eugene
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Despite the “crisis of a generation”, the 2020 general election results point to a considered flight from the status quo, rather than a flight to safety. Singaporean voters, through their 2.54 million ballots cast, sent a nuanced message to all political parties and election candidates. It was a renewed, urgent expression of a vote for change, more so than in the 2011 election.
The Life Of Administrative Democracy, Joshua Ulan Galperin
The Life Of Administrative Democracy, Joshua Ulan Galperin
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Imagine if Congress, the President, and the industries they hoped to regulate all decided that neither politically isolated bureaucrats nor a popularly sanctioned President should wield the power to administer Congress’ laws, to make legislative-type policy, to enforce that policy, and to adjudicate disputes under it. Imagine if there were another experiment, one that has persisted, but few have noticed.
Imagine no longer. Overlooked by most, there is a model for federal administration that does not rely on isolated administrators or Presidential control, but instead on elected bureaucrats. Today, the United States Department of Agriculture houses over 7,500 elected farmer-bureaucrats …
Developmental Justice And The Voting Age, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Developmental Justice And The Voting Age, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Faculty Scholarship
Several municipalities have lowered the voting age to 16, with similar bills pending in state legislatures and one considered by Congress. Meanwhile, advocates for youth are trying to raise the ages of majority across an array of areas of law, including ages for diverting criminal conduct into the juvenile justice system (18 to 21); buying tobacco (18 to 21); driving (16 to 18); and obtaining support from the foster care system (18 to 21). Child welfare advocates are fighting the harms of Adultification, meaning the projection of adult capacities, responsibilities, and consequences onto minors. In legal and social history, seeing …
Are Presidential Electors Free To Vote As They Wish, Despite A State’S Popular Vote?, Alan Raphael, Elliott Mondry
Are Presidential Electors Free To Vote As They Wish, Despite A State’S Popular Vote?, Alan Raphael, Elliott Mondry
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
Presidential Control Over Disputed Elections, Lisa Marshall Manheim
Presidential Control Over Disputed Elections, Lisa Marshall Manheim
Articles
An election that is “disputed” lacks two qualities after Election Day: a clear winner and a concession. These elections instead depend on legal processes — recounts, court proceedings, and more — for resolution. As a result, when a sitting President, running for reelection, becomes immersed in a disputed presidential election, he potentially enjoys an advantage over his opponent. He can attempt to exploit the powers of the presidency to push these legal proceedings in his favor. As a practical matter, this advantage can be formidable. A sitting president can resort to his extraordinary bully pulpit, for example, to influence public …
The Segregation Of Markets, Christian Turner
The Segregation Of Markets, Christian Turner
Scholarly Works
Campaign-finance reformers fear that rich donors’ money can be used disproportionately to influence the content of campaign advertising and thus, perhaps, the results of elections. In European football, UEFA has attempted to ban “financial doping,” rich owners’ use of money earned in sectors other than football to pay large sums for the best football players. Campaign-finance reform efforts and “financial fair play” rules in sport may seem like bespoke solutions to different problems. In fact, they are the same solution to the same problem. Both are attempts to ensure that power accumulated in one market is not brought into another …
First Amendment (Un)Exceptionalism: A Comparative Taxonomy Of Campaign Finance Reform Proposals In The United States And United Kingdom, Lori A. Ringhand
First Amendment (Un)Exceptionalism: A Comparative Taxonomy Of Campaign Finance Reform Proposals In The United States And United Kingdom, Lori A. Ringhand
Scholarly Works
There is an urgent conversation happening among the world’s democracies about how to respond to the combined threat of online electioneering and foreign interference in domestic elections. Despite the shadow such activities cast over the 2016 presidential election in the United States, the US has been largely absent from comparative discussions about how to tackle the problem. This is not just because of a recalcitrant president. The assumption that America’s “First Amendment Exceptionalism” – the idea that American freedom of expression law is simply too much of an outlier to warrant useful comparative consideration – is strong on both sides …
Covid-19 And The Law: Elections, Richard Briffault
Covid-19 And The Law: Elections, Richard Briffault
Faculty Scholarship
With one Supreme Court decision, lower federal and state court decisions, pending litigation, and proposals around the country for major changes in how elections are conducted, COVID-19 has already had and likely will continue to have a significant impact on election law.
The discussion that follows proceeds in two parts. The first addresses the initial consequences of COVID-19 as an electoral emergency. Voters were due to go to the polls in states around the country just as the pandemic was gathering force and governors and mayors were calling on people to stay at home and avoid large gatherings – which, …
Election Law Localism In The Time Of Covid-19, Richard Briffault
Election Law Localism In The Time Of Covid-19, Richard Briffault
Faculty Scholarship
In just a few short months, the COVID-19 pandemic has already provoked multiple election law disputes. These have tended to track the same normative and policy conflicts that have marked election law for years, particularly the tension between strict adherence to preexisting rules and the willingness to stretch or relax those rules in order to deal with emergency conditions, and the overlapping debate over whether the primary threat to the integrity of the electoral system is fraud or the legal and administrative obstacles to voting during a pandemic. A third, but much less discussed, strand in the emerging COVID-19 election …
How Many Votes Is Too Few?, Rebecca Green
The Life Of Administrative Democracy, Joshua Galperin
The Life Of Administrative Democracy, Joshua Galperin
Articles
Imagine if Congress, the President, and the industries they hoped to regulate all decided that neither politically isolated bureaucrats nor a popularly sanctioned President should wield the power to administer Congress’ laws, to make legislative-type policy, to enforce that policy, and to adjudicate disputes under it. Imagine if there were another experiment, one that has persisted, but few have noticed.
Imagine no longer. Overlooked by most, there is a model for federal administration that does not rely on isolated administrators or Presidential control, but instead on elected bureaucrats. Today, the United States Department of Agriculture houses over 7,500 elected farmer-bureaucrats …
Judicial Nullification Of Presidential Elections In Africa: Peter Mutharika V Lazarus Chakera And Saulos Chilima In Context, James Thuo Gathii, Olabisi D. Akinkugbe
Judicial Nullification Of Presidential Elections In Africa: Peter Mutharika V Lazarus Chakera And Saulos Chilima In Context, James Thuo Gathii, Olabisi D. Akinkugbe
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
In contemporary Africa, the judicialization of presidential elections between incumbents and challengers in courts is becoming increasingly visible. The latest example of this judicialization is the Malawi case of Peter Mutharika v Lazarus Chakera and Saulos Chilima, which successfully triggered a repeat election in which an opposition politician defeated an incumbent. This article examines the consequences and implications of this case and compares the Malawi decision to cases in Kenya and Nigeria. It further analyzes the backlash on the Malawi justices from the executive and the subsequent solidarity seen from both legal and civil society. The article concludes that the …