NYU Law Forum—The 2020 Election, Part I: Critical Issues as America Votes

The issues surrounding the 2020 election are in the headlines on a daily basis: pandemic-related changes to voting procedures and deadlines (and challenges to those changes); early voting and mail-in voting (and associated allegations of potential fraud and concerns about counting ballots in a timely manner); poll watching vs. voter intimidation; the role of courts; the possibility that Congress could decide a tied or contested outcome; and many more. At this Forum, Professors Samuel Issacharoff and Richard Pildes—who established the Law of Democracy as an academic discipline and are experts in election law—will join other experts in the field to discuss what the country faces two weeks ahead of Election Day. For Part II of this discussion, the panel will reconvene on November 20 to assess the situation two-and-a-half weeks after the polls have closed.

The NYU Law Forum is sponsored by Latham and Watkins.

Participants

Benjamin Ginsberg, Practitioner of election law for 38 years (retired); clients included the Republican National Committee, the Republican Governors Association, and the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign. Co-chaired the bipartisan 2013 Presidential Commission on Election Administration.

Samuel Issacharoff, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law

Richard Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law

Franita Tolson, Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, and Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law
 

To join this Forum as an audience member and receive a Zoom link, please register. If you would like to submit a question for the panelists, you may do so on the registration page. Note on accessibility: This virtual event requires an internet connection and a computer or smartphone. The event will have live captioning. If you need any accommodations, or for any questions, please contact Tiffany Scruggs at tiffany.scruggs@nyu.edu.