[EL] 2nd annual Gerrymander Standard writing competition

[Dan Vicuna]

Following the great success of our 2015 competition, Common Cause is thrilled to announce that we are once again sponsoring the Gerrymander Standard writing competition to identify a definition for partisan gerrymandering and legal analysis that will empower citizens and litigators with the tools they need to challenge gerrymanders in court. Please see details at www.commoncause.org/GerrymanderStandard<http://www.commoncause.org/GerrymanderStandard> and below.

Dan Vicuna
National Redistricting Coordinator
Common Cause
Phone: (213) 623-1216
Twitter: @DanVicuna<https://twitter.com/danvicuna>
www.commoncause.org/redistricting<http://www.commoncause.org/redistricting>


Common Cause 2016 "Gerrymander Standard" Writing Competition

[gerrymander-map]Papers Due March 27, 2016

The Supreme Court has long suggested there is a limit for what is acceptable partisan gerrymandering, but like obscenity, so far the line is undefined and left to courts to know it when they see it. The Court has said that it is willing to hear constitutional challenges to partisan gerrymandering, but existing legal theories have been insufficient to empower citizens and advocates with the tools they need to overturn partisan gerrymanders in court. Common Cause's 2016 "Gerrymander Standard" Writing Competition is your chance to change that.

For the second year, we invite legal and social science practitioners, scholars, and students to submit papers proposing a new definition of partisan gerrymandering or further developing an existing standard and pairing that definition with an effective legal theory to challenge unfair redistricting plans in court. Winning papers are selected by a distinguished panel of democracy scholars.

Winning Authors Receive:

  *   Prize money: 1st place: $5,000, 2nd place: $3,000, 3rd place: $2,000
  *   Publication in a leading academic journal
  *   Payment of travel expenses to present papers at a national redistricting reform symposium

See submission requirements here<http://www.commoncause.org/issues/voting-and-elections/redistricting/writing-competition.pdf>.

Go to Common Cause's Gerrymander Standard Writing Contest website<http://www.commoncause.org/gerrymanderstandard> for more information and updates. If you have any questions, contact Dan Vicuna at (213) 623-1216 or contest at commoncause.org<mailto:contest at commoncause.org>.




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