[EL] Call for Papers - Voting Rights Reform, Youth Vote

Tue Oct 19 16:56:11 PDT 2021

Dear friends,

Please see the Call for Papers below by the Rutgers University Law Review,
for a spring 2022 symposium on Voting Rights Reform: the Twenty-Sixth
Amendment, Youth Power, and the Potential for a Third Reconstruction.

More detail below and *attached*. Proposals are due at the end of this
month.

Please share. Apologies for cross-posts.

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*HE RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW PRESENTS*

*Voting Rights Reform:the 26th Amendment, Youth Power,and the Potential for
a Third Reconstruction*

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

2021 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment,
which lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen and outlawed
age-based discrimination in ballot access. By July 1, 1971, the Amendment
was ratified by 38 states in a record-setting 100 days. Youth activists and
civil rights proponents banded together to accomplish this feat during a
confluence of reform movements now called the Second Reconstruction.

Fifty years later, state legislatures across the country once again
threaten the voting rights of young people and communities of color. State
legislators have already introduced 400 voter suppression bills in 2021
across 49 states, and 18 states enacted 30 of those bills into law. Many of
these voter suppression bills specifically target young voters and voters
of color, despite new election modernization trends in 2020 amidst the
COVID-19 global pandemic. Against a backdrop of national protests and
violence, some scholars suggest that we may be entering a new crucial
period of reform—a Third Reconstruction.

The 2022 Symposium of the Rutgers University Law Review will explore the
legislative history of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, the appropriate
standards of review that courts should use when reviewing challenges to
youth voting restrictions, and a data-driven perspective on the youth vote
and the specific voting mechanisms that empower the youth vote. We invite
scholars of law and legal ethics, election data science, social sciences,
and the humanities; current and former lawmakers; legal practitioners; and
current and former youth organizers to submit paper proposals for inclusion
in the symposium issue of the Law Review. Authors of accepted papers will
be invited to present at the Symposium conference, which will be held in
April 2022.

Topics for the conference might include, but are not confined to, the
following:

·         Legal challenges to age-based discrimination today and the
appropriate standard of review for 26th Amendment challenges.

·         The relevance of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment today.

·         The efficacy or methodology of the original push for
ratification, including the involvement of youth activists or civil rights
leaders.

·         The potential of a Third Reconstruction, or the current push for
ratification of new constitutional reform, including constitutional
amendments.

·         How youth and youth of color vote today, including empirical
studies of youth voting through legislative initiatives like same-day
registration, early voting, or voting by mail.

·         Legislation or election administration practices that encourage
and/or restrict youth voters and voters of color.

·         The power of youth and youth leadership, past or present, in
social justice or political movements, and the role of fusion politics.

*Submission Procedure:*

Email proposals as a Word or PDF document to the Rutgers University Law
Review at lawreview at law.rutgers.edu by *11:59 PM on* *October 29, 2021*.

Proposals must include:

   1. Your name and contact information;
   2. Title of the proposed article;
   3. A brief (one-page maximum) description of the article; and
   4. A current CV

Authors may submit more than one proposal.

*Notification:*

Authors who submit a proposal will be notified by *November 19, 2021,* if
their proposal has been accepted.

*Publication Opportunity:*

Final drafts of accepted articles must be submitted by *11:59 PM on March
31, 2022*. Acceptance for publication of any paper, proposal, or response
to a presenter is at the *Rutgers University Law Review*'s* sole discretion*
.

*Presentation Opportunity*:

Authors selected for publication will be invited to present their papers at
the Symposium conference, which will be held in April 2022. Articles need
not be finalized to be selected as a participant in the Symposium.

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-- 
Yael Bromberg, Esq.
Principal, Bromberg Law LLC
Lecturer, Rutgers School of Law, Election Law & the Political Process
Author, *Youth Voting Rights and the Unfulfilled Promise of the
Twenty-Sixth Amendment*, U. Penn. J. Const. L., available on SSRN here
<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3442198>.

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