Election Law on the Eve of the 2022 Midterm Elections (via Zoom)
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Law professors Eugene Mazo and Bradley Smith will discuss the changing landscape of American election law, the ways in which the law has evolved since the last presidential election, and the issues that may influence the midterm elections of 2022. The discussion will focus on innovations in the right to vote, the political landscape in Ohio and elsewhere following redistricting, and the dynamics of our campaign finance system. Professors Mazo and Smith will also spend some time discussing the two new election-related cases that are currently before the United States Supreme Court.
Eugene D. Mazo is Visiting Professor of Law at the Seton Hall University and a nationally recognized scholar of election law. Professor Mazo's research focuses on voting rights, campaign finance, redistricting, and the regulation of democracy, both in the United States and around the world. His publications include The Best Candidate: Presidential Nomination in Polarized Times (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Democracy by the People: Reforming Campaign Finance in America (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and Election Law Stories (Foundation Press, 2016). Professor Mazo's writings examine the laws that regulate our democracy and seek to make them accessible to broad audiences. He has taught at several universities throughout his career, including Baltimore, George Mason, Maryland, Rutgers, and Wake Forest. A graduate of Columbia College, Professor Mazo received his master's degree from Harvard, a doctorate in politics from Oxford, and his law degree from Stanford.
Bradley A. Smith holds the Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor of Law position at Capital University Law School. He is one of the nation's leading authorities on election law and campaign finance, and co-author of "Voting Rights and Election Law," a leading casebook in the field. Professor Smith has been on the Capital University Law School faculty since 1993. From 2013-15 he held the Visiting Judge John T. Copenhaver Chair of Law at West Virginia University, and in 2018-19 was a James Madison Fellow in the Department of Politics at Princeton. He has also taught at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University in Virginia. Professor Smith earned his B.A. from Kalamazoo College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and holds an honorary doctorate from Augustana College.
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