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What excites you most about joining the UCI Law faculty?
There's a real sense of excitement here at UCI Law. You get the feeling that everyone is working together to create an exceptional law school--from the dean, to the faculty and staff, to the students. All is new and nothing is off the table. It is liberating (and a bit terrifying). There's a chance to build something new and different here.
What is your teaching style?
I have two different teaching styles. In a first-year course, I see myself as akin to a foreign language instructor. Law is a like a foreign language, and the first year is one of immersion in the new language. Of course, the best way to learn a foreign language is to practice it out loud, which is why I try to make a first-year class as participatory as possible. Public speaking is also an important legal skill, and so calling on students is a way to get them thinking on their feet, as they will eventually have to do before a judge, boss, or client.
In my more advanced courses, students already speak the language of law and we can focus on some interesting theoretical and practical questions. My goal is to prepare students to go out into the world and provide excellent legal advice and service for their clients. But I also want them to do so after taking into account the larger context - both the kinds of theoretical arguments that animate how we choose our laws, and the moral and ethical implications of the choices we make.
Describe your scholarship.
Most of my scholarship is at the intersection of law and politics, especially in the fields of Election Law and statutory interpretation. I write about issues such as campaign financing, election administration (such as voter identification laws), redistricting, the initiative process, and statutory interpretation. The field of Election Law was a very small field before the dispute over the 2000 Presidential election in Florida, culminating in the United States Supreme Court's controversial decision in Bush v. Gore. Now the field is much larger, and most of the major law schools offer Election Law courses. I have been very active in helping to develop the field, including through co-authoring a casebook, serving for nine years as founding co-Editor of the Election Law Journal, writing since 2003 for my Election Law Blog (now with over 19,000 posts), and co-managing listservs in Election Law and Legislation.
949-824-3072
401 E. Peltason Dr., Law 3800-D
Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Faculty Assistant Sara Galloway
sgalloway@law.uci.edu
(949) 824-2370
- University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D, Political Science, 1992
- University of California, Los Angeles, J.D, 1991
- University of California, Los Angeles, M.A., Political Science, 1988
- University of California, Berkeley, B.A., Middle Eastern Studies, 1986
- Loyola Law School, 1998-2011
- William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law, 2005-2011
- University of California, Irvine School of Law, Visiting Professor, Spring 2011
- American University, Washington College of Law, Visiting Professor, Summer 2010
- UCLA School of Law, Visiting Professor, Spring 2005, Spring 1998
- Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor, 1994-1998
- Election law, legislation, remedies and torts
- The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown (Yale University Press 2012)
- Remedies - Examples and Explanations (Aspen 2007, 2d ed. 2010)
- The Glannon Guide to Torts: Learning Torts through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis (2009)
- Election Law - Cases and Materials (2d ed. 2001, 3d ed. 2004, 4th ed. 2008) (co-authored with Professors Daniel Hays Lowenstein and Daniel P. Tokaji) (plus teacher's manual and annual supplements 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010)
- The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore (NYU Press 2003)
- "Lobbying, Rent Seeking, and the Constitution," 64 Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2012)
- "Citizens United and the Orphaned Antidistortion Rationale" (forthcoming 2011, Georgia State Law Review symposium on Citizens United)
- "The Nine Lives of Buckley v. Valeo" (First Amendment Stories, Richard Garnett and Andrew Koppelman, eds., forthcoming 2011)
- "Citizens United and the Illusion of Coherence," 109 Michigan Law Review 581 (2011)
- California Bar, 1992
- Election Law Journal, Editorial Board Member
- American Law Institute, elected in 2009
- American Political Science Association
- Horvitz & Levy, Los Angeles, Associate, 1992-1994
- Hon. David R. Thompson, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Law Clerk, 1991-1992