The Commentary posts were authored primarily by EL@M faculty, with a smaller number of posts by guest authors and EL@M staff. At present, here is how authorship is indicated on this site:
- Ned Foley’s posts show an author of “foley.33” and are also tagged as “Free & Fair”
- The rest of the posts show Gillian Thomson, incorrectly, as the author because she migrated all of content. The true author’s name appears at the top of the post.
- EL@M staff and guest authors are further identified by the title they indicated at the time the post was originally created. These titles rarely reflect the author’s current title.
- EL@M faculty (current and past) are identified only by name. The titles and bios that accompanied their posts at the time they were originally created appear below. However, many people’s titles changed during the period shown, but were not updated.
Edward B. Foley
Title & Bio (Oct 2006 – 2019)
Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer Professor for the Administration of Justice and the Rule of Law
Moritz College of LawEdward B. Foley is Director of the Election Law @ Moritz program. His primary area of current research concerns the resolution of disputed elections. Having published several law journal articles on this topic, he is currently writing a book on the history of disputed elections in the United States. He is also serving as Reporter for the American Law Institute’s new Election Law project. Professor Foley’s “Free & Fair” is a collection of his writings that he has penned for Election Law @ Moritz.
Title (2004 – Oct 2006)
Director, Election Law @ Moritz
Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law
Moritz College of Law
Steven F. Huefner
Title & Bio (Oct 2006 – 2019)
C. William O’Neill Professor in Law and Judicial Administration; Director of Clinical Programs; Legislation Clinic Director; Senior Fellow, Election Law @
Moritz College of LawSteven F. Huefner has wide-ranging election law experience and interests, including the specific areas of contested elections, term limits in state legislative elections, military and overseas voting, legislative redistricting, and poll worker responsibility and training. Prior to joining the faculty at Moritz, Professor Huefner spent five years in the U.S. Senate’s Office of Legal Counsel, where his responsibilities included advising the U.S. Senate in matters of contested Senate elections, as well as assisting in the 1999 presidential impeachment trial.
Title (2004 – Oct 2006)
Senior Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz
Associate Professor of Law; Director, Legislation Clinic
Moritz College of Law
Daniel P. Tokaji
Title & Bio (Oct 2006 – 2019)
Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law; Senior Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz
Moritz College of LawDan Tokaji is an authority on election law and voting rights. He specializes in election reform, including such topics as voting technology, voter ID, provisional voting, and other subjects addressed by the Help America Vote Act of 2002. He also studies issues of fair representation, including redistricting and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Title (2004 – Oct 2006)
Associate Director, Election Law @ Moritz
Assistant Professor of Law
Moritz College of Law
Terri L. Enns
Title & Bio (Oct 2006 – 2019)
Clinical Professor of Law; Senior Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz
Moritz College of LawTerri Enns has been part of the Election Law @ Moritz team since the beginning of the project. Prior to coming to Moritz to teach in the Legislation Clinic, Ms. Enns served as Legal Counsel to the Ohio Senate Minority Caucus, where she regularly delved into Ohio’s statutory oversight of campaigns and elections, working with election law both as it was being created and as it was applied. Enns has provided input for a variety of panels focused on election issues, including Campaigning with Character for the Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership Development; Current Controversies in Election Law for a panel at Marshall University, and Don’t be Disenfranchised: Know Your Voter Rights and Election Law at the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Get Out Her Vote 2008: Ohio Summit.
Title (2004 – Oct 2006)
Senior Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Moritz College of Law
Donald B. Tobin
Title & Bio (Oct 2006 – 2019) [no posts after 2011]
Associate Dean for Faculty; Frank E. and Virginia H. Bazler Designated Professor in Business Law; Senior Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz
Moritz College of LawDonald Tobin is an expert on the intersection of tax and campaign finance laws. He served on Capitol Hill and in the U.S. Department of Justice before arriving at the Moritz College of Law in 2001. His two articles on the relationship of tax and campaign finance laws concerning the regulation of political groups having tax-exempt status under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code, his work on charities and their involvement in political campaigns, as well as his co-authored work with EL@M Director Edward B. Foley, have been widely recognized as leading publications on this topic.
Title (2004 – Oct 2006)
Senior Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz
Associate Professor of Law
Moritz College of Law
Dale A. Oesterle
Title & Bio (Oct 2006 – 2019) [no posts after 2013]
J. Gilbert Reese Chair in Contract Law
Moritz College of Law
Title (2004 – Oct 2006)
Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz
J. Gilbert Reese Chair in Contract Law
Moritz College of Law
David Stebenne
Title (Oct 2006 – 2019)
Professor of History and Law
Moritz College of Law
Title (2004 – Oct 2006)
Associate Professor of History
Ohio State University
Ruth Colker
Title (Oct 2006 – 2019)
Distinguished University Professor and Heck Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law
Moritz College of Law
Title (2004 – Oct 2006)
Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz
Heck-Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law
Moritz College of Law