Professor Elmendorf Speaks on Constitutional Reform at Loyola Law School

Professor Christopher Elmendorf delivered a talk as part of a symposium on "Rebooting California: Initiatives, Conventions & Constitutional Reform" at Loyola Law School Los Angeles on September 24.  He argued that the state courts have a central role to play in solving California's crisis of governability, but that they will not be able to perform this role unless the state legislature both undertakes to declare the basic purposes of the California Constitution, and directs the courts to resolve certain legal challenges to ballot initiatives on the basis of the measures' empirically demonstrable consequences for the Constitution's structural objectives.

Professor Elmendorf's varied teaching and research interests include election law, administrative la, constitutional law, and property and natural resources law.