Document Type
Symposium Participant
Publication Date
2020
Publication Information
100 B.U. L. Rev. Online 278 (2020).
Abstract
From the Article
The field of election law, unsurprisingly, focuses on law. But Professor Rick Hasen's book Election Meltdown rightly highlights that law can only take us so far in governing elections. As we think about the problems that persist in our elections, Professor Hasen moves us to think about long-term reforms, which are the best and perhaps only ways to respond to some of our elections' short-term perils. Some of his proposed reforms offer new legal frameworks. But I want to focus on those nonlegal reforms that work alongside the law - places where the law simply runs out, where legislation is worse than the existing problem, or where superior longer-term solutions reside.
Recommended Citation
Derek T. Muller,
Governing Elections Without Law,
100 B.U. L. Rev. Online 278 (2020)..
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https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/1913
Comments
This article was contributed to an online symposium on Richard L. Hasen's book Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy (2020). Click here to learn more about the symposium.