Our Mission
To train the next generation of lawyers in the law and practice of voting rights, ballot access, campaign finance, election administration, and democracy protection.
Events
The Voting Rights and Democracy Project
in Washington, D.C., in March 2023 and November 2022
Fordham Law students affiliated with the Voting Rights and Democracy Project meeting with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Federal Elections Commission Chair Dana Lindenbaum & Commissioner Allan Dickerson, Secretary Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin, Stacey Grigsby, Deputy White House Counsel, and Shelley Greenspan, White House Policy Advisor for Partnerships and Global Engagement
THE FORUM
Commentary
Presidential Electors Are a Flawed Feature of the Electoral College
The Purcell Principle: An Evolving Doctrine
Justice Kavanaugh’s Allen v. Milligan Concurrence Invites Further Challenges to Section 2
Textualism and Anti-Novelty Under Moore v. Harper
A Republican Legacy: No-Excuse Absentee Voting as an Efficient, User-Friendly Government Service
January 6th, Criminal Insurrection, and the Constitution’s Disqualification Clause
Much Ink Has Been Spilled on the So-Called Independent-State-Legislature Theory. Why, Then, Another Article?
Silencing Voters: Voter Suppression, Gerrymandering, and Big Money in Politics
The American Dream: The Consequences of Ending DACA Amid Court Challenges
See more from the Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum here
Vol. II, Issue No. 1
Discriminatory Intent Claims Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act
2 Fordham L. Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 1
Amandeep S. Grewal
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Equality, Proportionality, and Our Abridged Voting Rights Regime
2 Fordham L. Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 33
Michael Latner
2 Fordham L. Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 63
Sarah Armstrong
2 Fordham L. Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 96
John Sullivan Baker
2 Fordham L. Voting Rts. & Democracy F. 148
Sara Lindsay Neier
