Election Law and the Roberts Court
September 29-30, 2006
In September of 2006, the Ohio State Law Journal (OSLJ) and Election Law @ Moritz (EL@M) co-sponsored a symposium on “Election Law and the Roberts Court.” The topics addressed at the symposium and recorded in the participants’ contributions included the future of Bush v. Gore, campaign finance, redistricting, and many other important election law issues. The focus was on the potential changes in the Court’s philosophical approach to the “law of democracy” with the recent additions of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito to the bench.
Contributors also discussed the application of jurisprudential themes—like potential tensions between “original intent” and “stare decisis”—as they apply to particular topics of election law, including the future of Bush v. Gore and “Equal Protection” constraints on the vote-counting process.
Click HERE for more information about the symposium and papers that emerged.