Professor Elmendorf Presents at Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
On November 7, Professor Christopher S. Elmendorf presented two papers at the 9th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies on UC Berkeley School of Law. The papers, "Using Experiments to Estimate Geographic Variation in Racially Polarized Voting" and "After Shelby County: Getting Section 2 of the VRA to Do the Work of Section 5," concern new empirical methods for litigation to protect minority voting rights under the federal Voting Rights Act. Professor Elmendorf also served as the invited commentator on another paper.
Christopher S. Elmendorf is a Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law whose teaching and research interests include election law, administrative law, statutory interpretation, constitutional law, and property and natural resources law.