The FSU Election Law Conference

Keynote Speaker: Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law at Harvard University

Professor Stephanopoulos’s research and teaching interests involve election law, constitutional law, administrative law, legislation, and comparative law. His work is particularly focused on the intersection of democratic theory, empirical political science, and the American electoral system. He is the author of Aligning Election Law (2024) and a coauthor of Election Law: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 2022). His academic articles have appeared in, among others, the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, New York University Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. He has also written for popular publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Atlantic, New Republic, Slate, and Vox. He has been involved in several litigation efforts as well, including two partisan gerrymandering cases based on his scholarship and decided by the Supreme Court. He continues to work on litigation and advocacy as the Director of Strategy of Harvard Law School’s Election Law Clinic. Stephanopoulos is a frequent television and radio commentator on legal issues. He is a co-founder of PlanScore and TrueViews. He is a member of the Campaign Legal Center’s Litigation Strategy Council and the Committee for the Study of Digital Platforms. He has been named to The Politico 50 list, as well as the National Law Journal’s “Chicago’s 40 Under 40.” He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Before joining the Harvard Law School faculty, Stephanopoulos was a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He was previously an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School and an Associate in the Washington, DC office of Jenner & Block LLP. Before entering private practice, he clerked for Judge Raymond C. Fisher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. A graduate of Yale Law School, Stephanopoulos also holds an M.Phil. in European Studies from Cambridge University and an A.B. in Government from Harvard College, graduating summa cum laude.

Travis Crum, Professor of Law at Washington University

Professor Crum’s scholarship explores the relationship between voting rights, race, and federalism. His current projects examine the Fifteenth Amendment as an independent constitutional provision and the role of racially polarized voting in redistricting. Professor Crum’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. Professor Crum’s article, The Unabridged Fifteenth Amendment, won the 2024 AALS Distinguished Scholarship Award in Election Law. His scholarship has been cited by federal courts, including in the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Allen v. Milligan. His work on the Voting Rights Act’s bail-in provision was described by the Wall Street Journal as the “blueprint” for the “Obama administration’s new legal strategy to preserve decades of minority-voting rights” in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder striking down the VRA’s coverage formula. He has been quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and MSNBC. He is a contributor to the Election Law Blog. Professor Crum’s proposal for an effects-test bail-in provision was incorporated in the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives

Josh Sellers, Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin

Professor Sellers teaches and writes in the areas of election law, constitutional law, race and the law, and American politics. He is widely published and has received numerous accolades, including the esteemed Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, and honors from the AALS Section on Election Law. Professor Sellers is an elected member of the American Law Institute and currently serves as an advisor on the Institute's Election Litigation project.

Rebecca Green, Associate Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School

Professor Green teaches courses in Election Law, Redistricting & GIS, Contract Law, Privacy Law, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Professor Green co-directs the Election Law Program, a joint project of the Law School and the National Center for State Courts that provides resources for judges on election law topics. Professor Green earned her B.A. in Political Science from Connecticut College, an MA from Harvard University, and is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.

Lori Ringhand, J. Alton Hosch professor of Law & Josiah Meigs Distinguished teaching Professor at University of Georgia

Professor Ringhand is the J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. She teaches courses on constitutional law, election law, and state and local government law. She has been a member of the School of Law faculty since 2008 and was named a Hosch Professor in 2012. She is a nationally known Supreme Court scholar and the author of the book Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change (with Paul M. Collins) published by Cambridge University Press. She also is the co-author of Constitutional Law: A Context and Practices Casebook, which is part of a series of casebooks dedicated to incorporating active teaching and learning methods into traditional law school casebooks.

Wilfred Codrington III, Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law at Cardozo Law

Professor Codrington is the Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law and co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at Cardozo School of Law. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at N.Y.U. School of Law. A public law expert, his research, teaching, and advocacy focus on voting, elections, and the law of democracy; constitutional law, including constitutional theory and reform; and civil rights, anti-discrimination, and the role of race in the law. Professor Codrington is the co-author of the 2021 book The People’s Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union (New Press), a narrative history of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution and clarion call for a renewed popular commitment to progressive constitutional reform.

Yunseig Kim, Associate Professor of Law at Hofstra University

Professor Kim is an Associate Professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He studied technological innovation and regulation, with a particular focus on antitrust and competition law. He clerked for Judge Mark J. Bennett of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Honolulu, Hawaii. Before his clerkship, he was a litigation associate at King & Spalding LLP in Washington, D.C.

Josh Douglas, Acting Associate Dean for Research & University Research Professor Ashland, Inc-Spears Distinguished Research Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky

Professor Douglas is the Acting Associate Dean for Research, the Ashland, Inc.-Spears Distinguished Research Professor of Law, and a University Research Professor at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law (that is a long title!). He teaches and researches election law and voting rights, civil procedure, constitutional law, and judicial decision making. He is the author of Vote for US: How to Take Back our Elections and Change the Future of Voting (Prometheus Books 2019). His latest book is The Court v. The Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights (Beacon Press 2024)