[EL] Undergrad election law syllabi

Tue Aug 15 13:14:42 PDT 2017

Dear Michael and all:

I think the suggestions for your undergraduate election law class are
terrific, however let me also bring to your attention another alternative.

My new undergraduate constitutional law case/text/book by West Academic
(2017) has an extensive chapter of cases and commentary on election law
cases.  Here is the link:
http://www.westacademic.com/Professors/ProductDetails.aspx?NSIID=160657

You could buy this book and not only get all the undergraduate election law
you would want but it would be surrounded by constitutional law, at a price
that is really reasonable.  I would love the publisher to  expand the
chapter with some political theory and then release as a separate book.
However, I do want to encourage all of you to look at the link and table of
contents and consider the book for your undergraduate classes.

Thank you.

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Michael McDonald <
dr.michael.p.mcdonald at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who provided their syllabus to me in preparation for my
> new undergraduate election law and voting rights class this fall semester.
> After reading through several excellent books this summer, I decided on
> assigning Dan Tokaji's *Election Law in a Nutshell* and Rick Hasen's *The
> Voting Wars* as the primary books for my class. Both books are great at
> what they do. Dan's book is a solid nuts and bolts primer on election law
> and Rick's is a more journalistic account. The books tend to complement one
> another in that they mostly do not cover the same topics. I've supplemented
> these books with some additional readings that I'm happy to share to anyone
> interested. I've just given the authors and dates of publication in the
> attached syllabus, that some may be able to deduce the titles given a
> week's subject material.
>
> I really like both books. To add what I hope is a gentle criticism: Dan
> starts with theory, but gets lost in the weeds and does not do a good job
> of connecting the cases back to the theory. Rick is the opposite, weaving
> lots of non-legal material together, but losing the legal foundations in
> his narrative. A book that combines Dan's peanut butter and Rick's
> chocolate would be something I would like to consume. Perhaps they would
> consider collaborating of such a book since they are co-authors on other
> projects.
>
> ============
> Dr. Michael P. McDonald
> Associate Professor, University of Florida
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> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Ben Highton <bhighton at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>> Did you get any helpful responses to this?  I'll also be teaching a
>> course like this for the first time, and have started looking for useful
>> guides.  If you're interested, here is what I've got so far.
>> Sincerely,
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Michael McDonald <
>> dr.michael.p.mcdonald at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If anyone has recently taught an election law class to upper division
>>> undergraduates, I'd appreciate if you could share your syllabus with me. I
>>> am teaching a fall class for the first time and would like to see what
>>> approaches and materials other people use.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> -Mike
>>>
>>> ============
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