Election Law (aka: Law of the Political Process)

Marshall section:
This course addresses the body of law that structures and regulates the American political process. Topics covered include: the right to vote; one person/one vote; legislative districting; partisan gerrymandering; minority vote dilution; the constitutional rights of political parties; access to the ballot; direct democracy, and campaign finance regulation.

Crayton section:
This course offers a survey of the major themes involved the legal regulation of elections and politics. We will cover many of the major Supreme Court and appellate cases on topics related to voting rights, reapportionment/redistricting, ballot access, regulation of political parties, and election controversies. We will pay particular attention to competing political philosophies and empirical assumptions that underlie the Court's reasoning while still focusing on the ways lawyers and elected officials alike use these cases as litigation tools and to serve political ends.

First Amendment and/or Civil Rights are helpful but not necessary.

Mandatory: Constitutional Law