Subject: election law teacher database/more news
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 6/29/2004, 12:56 PM
To: election-law

Election Law Teacher Database - Version 1

You will find here a database of election law teachers. If you submitted information to me, please check the database to make sure your information was accurately recorded. After I give time for some corrections, I'll post a revised version, and then link to it on the side of the blog. I'll try to keep this updated regularly. Thanks to all who contributed information.


"Small Donors Equal Big Bucks for State Party Coffers"

Stateline.org offers this report (link via Politicalwire.com).


"Nader's 'Illegal' GOP Backers"

Joe Conason offers this Salon.com column, with the following subhead: "Right-wing groups -- and Bush-Cheney '04 -- may have violated federal campaign law to help get Ralph Nader on the ballot in Oregon." The allegation is that conservative 501(c)(4)s, at the urging of Bush-Cheney '04, have been making phone calls to get Republicans to sign on to get Nader on the ballot in Oregon.


Review of My Book and Karlan on Structuralism

Henry Flores reviews my book, The Supreme Court and Election Law, at this link for the Law and Politics Book Review.

I won't comment on the merit of the review, other than to note that it incorrectly states that in chapter 5 of the book I criticize "Professor Paula [sic] Karlan" for her structuralist views. In that chapter, I do note that Pam Karlan has characterized Shaw v. Reno and Bush v. Gore as cases where the Supreme Court focused more on the structure and function of the political process than on traditional notions of individual or group equality. But Pam hardly endorses this development. (Pam was also incorrectly attacked as a structuralist by Larry Tribe in his Harvard Law Review article on Bush v. Gore.) Most of my criticism in Chapter 5 is of the structuralist work of Pam's casebook co-authors, Sam Issacharoff and Rick Pildes.
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Rick Hasen
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Loyola Law School
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