Date Chartered: 5/31/2014

Purpose

The Section on Election Law promotes the communication of ideas, interests, and activities among members and makes recommendations to the Association on matters of interest in the teaching and improvement of the law relating to election law, voting rights, campaign finance, and related topics.

Leadership   Section Members

Election Law Bylaws

John Hart Ely Prize in the Law of Democracy

The Section on Election Law has established a new lifetime achievement award this year. This award will from now on be presented annually by the Section’s executive committee to a senior scholar in our field for his or her “extraordinary lifetime contributions to the study of election law and the law of democracy in the United States.” The Section has chosen to name its new lifetime achievement award the John Hart Ely Prize in the Law of Democracy.

Distinguished Scholarship Award

The second professional prize created by the Section this year is the Distinguished Scholarship Award in Election Law. The Distinguished Scholarship Award in Election Law will be awarded annually for “a single work that exemplifies excellence in the field and that is published within a given year.” The term “work” is defined broadly.

Recipients

Year Award Name Recipient Law School
2024 John Hart Ely Prize in the Law of Democracy Richard H. Pildes New York University School of Law
2023 Distinguished Scholarship Award Tabatha Abu El-Haj Drexel University Thoams R. Kline School of Law
2023 John Hart Ely Prize in the Law of Democracy Pamela S. Karlan Stanford Law School
2022 Distinguished Scholarship Award Joshua S. Sellers Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
2022 Distinguished Scholarship Award Roger Michalski University of Oklahoma College of Law
2021 John Hart Ely Prize in the Law of Democracy Richard Briffault Columbia Law School
2021 Distinguished Scholarship Award Nicholas Stephanopoulos Harvard Law School

Honorable Mentions

Year Award Name Honorable Mention Law School
2023 Distinguished Scholarship Award Bertrall Ross University of Virginia School of Law
2023 Distinguished Scholarship Award Douglas M. Spencer University of Colorado School of Law
2021 Distinguished Scholarship Award Erin Scharff Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
2021 Distinguished Scholarship Award Joshua Sellers Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
2021 Distinguished Scholarship Award Justin Levitt Loyola Law School