| Subject: news of the day 3/24/04 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 3/24/2004, 8:32 AM |
| To: election-law |
Stateline.org offers this
report. (Link via Politicalwire.com.)
The publishers of the Election Law Journal have made FEC
Vice Chair Ellen Weintraub's contribution to the symposium on McConnell
v. FEC available without charge at
this link. View the entire table of contents, including some other
free articles from the issue, here.
To order the entire issue, or to subscribe to the journal, see here.
See this CNET
report. For my earlier coverage of this issue, see here.
The Washington Post offers this
report.
I've posted the press release here.
Thanks to Dan Tokaji for the file and the pointer.
Noted election law scholar Rick
Pildes, currently at NYU and formerly of Michigan, has been given
an offer to join Harvard Law School. Details via Brian
Leiter.
As anyone in the field knows, Pildes's work, particularly in the area
of voting rights, has been very influential not only in academia, but
before the Supreme Court. Congratulations.
Harvard Law School has posted this press release, which begins: "In an effort to prevent the confusion and mistakes that marked the 2000 election, a group of Harvard Law School students has launched a project to ensure that 2004 presidential election voters are given proper access to the ballot. The new group, Just Democracy, plans to recruit and place more than 1,000 law students with expertise in election law at what they believe could be high-risk polling places around the nation."
The group's website is here.
If you are interested in starting a chapter at your law school, see here.
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