LAPA Seminar with Samuel Issacharoff: The Corruption of Popular Sovereignty

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Date & Time Oct 07 2019 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s)
Samuel Issacharoff, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law
Audience Open to the Public

The Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA)’s seminar format encourages attendees to familiarize themselves with the paper in advance. The author will open the session by summarizing the main themes in the paper and presenting some topics for discussion. Moderated Q&A follows.

Copies of the seminar paper are typically available about 10 days before the event, during regular business hours, at the LAPA Offices on the 3rd floor of Wallace Hall.

Samuel Issacharoff is the Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU Law. His wide-ranging research deals with issues in civil procedure (especially complex litigation and class actions), law and economics, constitutional law, particularly with regard to voting rights and electoral systems, and employment law. He is one of the pioneers in the law of the political process, where his Law of Democracy casebook (co-authored with Stanford’s Pam Karlan and NYU’s Rick Pildes). and dozens of articles have helped to create a vibrant new area of constitutional law. Issacharoff is also a leading figure in the field of procedure, both in the academy and outside. He served as the reporter for the Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation of the American Law Institute. Issacharoff is a 1983 graduate of the Yale Law School. After clerking, he spent the early part of his career as a voting rights lawyer. He then began his teaching career at the University of Texas in 1989, where he held the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law. In 1999, he moved to Columbia Law School, where he was the Harold R. Medina Professor of Procedural Jurisprudence. His published articles appear in every leading law review, as well as in leading journals in other fields. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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