To Participate and Elect, 2023 Update

  • Constitutional Law
2023

To Participate and Elect: Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act at 40

  • Constitutional Law
  • Litigation
2022

“Mary Lou Graves, Nolen Breedlove, and the Nineteenth Amendment”

  • Legal History
Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy
2022

“Race and Redistricting: The Legal Framework”

  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal History
Political Geometry
2022

“Eight Months Later”

  • Legal Writing and Research
Boston University Law Review
2020

“Section 2 After Section 5: Voting Rights and the Race to the Bottom”

  • Civil Rights
William and Mary Law Review
2018

“The Shelby County Problem”

  • Constitutional Law
  • Civil Rights
Election Law Stories
2016

“Justice Ginsburg’s Umbrella”

  • Civil Rights
A Nation of Widening Opportunities: The Civil Rights Act at 50
2015

“What the Marriage Equality Cases Tell Us About Voter ID”

  • Civil Rights
University of Chicago Legal Forum
2015

“Enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment”

  • Constitutional Law
The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution
2015

A Nation of Widening Opportunities: The Civil Rights Act at 50

  • Civil Rights
2015

“Election Law’s Lochnerian Turn”

  • Constitutional Law
Boston University Law Review
2014

“Hobby Lobby and the Pathology of Citizens United”

  • Constitutional Law
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy
2014

“Dismissing Deterrence”

  • Civil Rights
Harvard Law Review Forum
2014

“What Was Wrong with the Record?”

  • Constitutional Law
  • Civil Rights
Election Law Journal
2013

“South Carolina’s ‘Evolutionary Process’ ”

  • Civil Rights
Columbia Law Review Sidebar
2013

“Shelby County v. Holder: Why Section 2 Matters”

  • Civil Rights
Law Quadrangle Notes
2013

“A Cure Worse than the Disease?”

  • Civil Rights
Yale Law Journal Online
2013

“Grutter’s Denouement: Three Templates from the Roberts Court”

  • Civil Rights
Northwestern University Law Review
2013

“On Overreaching, or Why Rick Perry May Save the Voting Rights Act but Destroy Affirmative Action”

  • Civil Rights
Election Law Journal
2012

“Democrats at DOJ: Why Partisan Use of the Voting Rights Act Might Not Be So Bad After All”

  • Civil Rights
Stanford Law and Policy Review
2012

“Engineering the Endgame”

  • Civil Rights
Michigan Law Review
2010

“Barack Obama, Margarita Lopez Torres, and the Path to Nomination”

  • Constitutional Law
Election Law Journal
2009

“From Bush v. Gore to NAMUDNO: A Response to Professor Amar”

  • Constitutional Law
Florida Law Review
2009

“Withdrawal: The Roberts Court and the Retreat from Election Law”

  • Constitutional Law
Minnesota Law Review
2009

“Why Counting Votes Doesn’t Add Up: A Response to Cox and Miles’ Judging the Voting Rights Act”

  • Civil Rights
Columbia Law Review Sidebar
2008

“Mission Accomplished?”

  • Civil Rights
Yale Law Journal Pocket Part
2007

“Not Like the South? Regional Variation and Political Participation Through the Lens of Section 2”

  • Civil Rights
Voting Rights Act Reauthorization of 2006: Perspectives on Democracy, Participation, and Power
2007

“Reviving the Right to Vote”

  • Civil Rights
Ohio State Law Journal
2007

“Congressional Power to Extend Preclearance: A Response to Professor Karlan”

  • Civil Rights
Houston Law Review
2006

“From Laredo to Fort Worth: Race, Politics and the Texas Redistricting Case”

  • Civil Rights
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
2006

“Documenting Discrimination in Voting: Judicial Findings Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Since 1982”

  • Civil Rights
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
2006

Documenting Discrimination in Voting: Judicial Findings Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Since 1982

  • Civil Rights
2005

“Resurrecting the White Primary”

  • Civil Rights
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
2004

“Reinforcing Representation: Enforcing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in the Rehnquist and Waite Courts”

  • Civil Rights
Michigan Law Review
2003

“Federalism, Preclearance, and the Rehnquist Court”

  • Constitutional Law
  • Civil Rights
Villanova Law Review
2001

“Race and the Right to Vote after Rice v. Cayetano”

  • Civil Rights
Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Annual Handbook
2001

“Private Order and Public Institutions”

  • International and Comparative Law
Michigan Law Review
2000

“Race and the Right to Vote after Rice v. Cayetano”

  • Civil Rights
Michigan Law Review
2000

“State Judges, State Officers, and Federal Commands After Seminole Tribe and Printz”

  • Constitutional Law
Wisconsin Law Review
1998

“The Six Companies and the Geary Act: A Case Study in Nineteenth-Century Civil Disobedience and Civil Rights Litigation”

  • Civil Rights
Western Legal History
1995

“African-American Freedom in Antebellum Cumberland County, Virginia”

  • Civil Rights
Chicago-Kent Law Review
1995

“New Challenges to Challenging Voter Intimidation”

Wisconsin Law Review

“Nolen Breedlove and the Nineteenth Amendment, in The History and Continuing Relevance of the Nineteenth Amendment”

Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy

“Erasing Section 2”

Oxford Handbook of American Election Law

To Participate and Elect: 2024 Update

“Minor v. Happersett and the Repudiation of Universal Suffrage”

Washington University Law Review