[EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 2/11/11

"Race, Reform, and Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy"

At yesterday's Emory conference, I got to get my hands on a copy of this new edited volume, which arose out of a Tobin project conference. The book is edited by Guy Charles, Heather Gerken, and Michael Kang, and they are also the General Editors of a new book series, Cambridge Studies in Election Law and Democracy.

Here is the table of contents:

1. The future of elections scholarship Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Heather K. Gerken and Michael S. Kang

Part I. Race and Politics: Overview Jennifer Hochschild

2. Voting rights: the next generation Rick Pildes

3. The reconstruction of voting rights Pamela S. Karlan

4. Explaining perceptions of competitive threat in a multi-racial context Vincent L. Hutchings, Cara Wong, James Jackson and Ronald Brown

Part II. Courts and the Regulation of the Electoral Process: Overview David Schleicher

5. The institutional turn in election law scholarship Heather K. Gerken and Michael S. Kang

6. Judges as political regulators: evidence and options for institutional change Richard L. Hasen

7. Empirical legitimacy and election law Christopher Elmendorf

8. Judging democracy's boundaries Samuel Issacharoff

Part III. Election Performance and Reform: Overview Alex Keyssar

9. New directions in the study of voter mobilization Alan Gerber

10. Popular election monitoring Archon Fung

11. Democracy in the United States, 2020 and beyond: how can scholarly research shape a vision and help to realize it? Ned Foley

12. Partisanship, public opinion, and redistricting Joshua Fougere, Stephen Ansolabehere and Nathaniel Persily

13. Conclusion: more or less: searching for regulatory balance Bruce Cain.

Posted by Rick Hasen at 06:02 AM

"DeLay Seeks New Trial in Campaign Finance Case"

Roll Call reports that DeLay's lawyers have raised a First Amendment defense. Many have raised the question whether CU could affect the outcome of this case. I'd love to see the briefs to be able to evaluate that argument.

Posted by Rick Hasen at 05:52 AM

End of an Era

AP offers Last Trial in Abramoff Case Ends in Conviction of Former Aide.

Posted by Rick Hasen at 05:38 AM

"Koch brothers' plans for 2012: Spend $88 million"

Another must-read on the Kochs from Politico.

Posted by Rick Hasen at 05:35 AM

"Let Californians vote on 2 budgets - 1 red, 1 blue"

Some very smart thinking from Elmendorf and Leib.

Posted by Rick Hasen at 05:31 AM

vanden Heuvel Responds to Kaminer on CU

See here.

Posted by Rick Hasen at 02:55 PM