[EL] Election Law Panel at SEALS

[Josh Douglas]

Folks,

I am planning on submitting a panel proposal for the Southeastern
Association of Law Schools (SEALS <http://sealslawschools.org/>) 2013
conference for next August.  The panel description is below.  If you are
interested in participating please let me know; we already have a few
confirmed participants but are open to some more.  Preference will be given
to faculty from SEALS "institutional<http://sealslawschools.org/?page_id=25>"
schools given that all panels must have at least 50% of its members from
SEALS institutional schools.  I wouldn't do this right in the middle of
election season but panel proposals are due by November 1.  Therefore,
please let me know by *Friday, October 26* if you would like to be included
on the panel proposal as a panelist.

The SEALS conference will be at the Breakers in Palm Beach on August 4-10,
2013.  We won't know which day our panel will be on until the draft program
is released.  Panelist must register for SEALS and pay their own expenses;
that said, SEALS is a really fun conference.

Here is the panel description:

*Judicial Decision Making and Election Administration:  The Role of the
Courts in the 2012 Election*


This panel will explore the role of judicial decisions on the
administration of the 2012 election.  Specific topics will include voter ID
challenges, lawsuits regarding registration laws and voter purges, and
litigation over early voting rules and provisional ballots, among others.  The
purpose of the panel is to make an assessment of the judiciary’s role in
setting out rules for how states and local election officials administered
the 2012 election.  The focus of the panel is specifically on election
administration (often referred to as the “nuts-and-bolts of running an
election”), as opposed to broader topics such as redistricting or campaign
finance, to enable a sustained look at the positive and negative aspects of
judicial involvement in the voting process.


Best,


Josh

-- 
Joshua A. Douglas
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Kentucky College of Law
620 S. Limestone
Lexington, KY 40506
(859) 257-4935
joshuadouglas at uky.edu
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