Upcoming Engagements

Cardozo Law School’s Author Meets Reader series
Discussion on the book “The Voting Wars” with its author UC Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen and accompanied by Richard Briffault of Columbia Law School, Mark Alexander of Seton Hall Law School, and Michael Herz of Cardozo, February 11, 2013

Medgar Evers College’s Black History Month Celebration
Discussion on the Voting Rights Act and the Shelby County case, Thursday, February 7 from 6-8 p.m. 

Last week, I and several other election law professors filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, the current challenge to the Act’s constitutionality, in which we argued that, in addition to the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution grants congressional authority to regulate elections through legislation such as the Voting Rights Act. I attach a press release concerning all amicus briefs in support of the VRA for additional information.

Moderated the Race to the Vote Panel:  “By the People, For the People, . . . But Which People” symposium hosted by the Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender, Cardozo Law School, January 30, 2013

2012 Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (NEPOC)
“Electing A President In An Increasingly Diverse Polity (FMR)” Boston, MA, October 27, 2012

African Studies Association (ASA)
"Ghana’s Expanding Conceptions of Citizenship in Elections: The Enforcement of Voting Rights for Ghana’s Incarcerated Citizens" Philadelphia, PA, November 30, 2012

AALS Hot Topics Panel: Democracy and the Public Trust: Election Equality & Integrity in the 2012 Elections New Orleans, LA, January 2013