Lessons Learned: The Bush Administration and Voting Rights

October 31, 2008 • 12:15 PM • Law School 3041

Pamela S. Karlan, one of the nation's leading experts on voting and the political process, to speak about the protection of voting rights, electoral administration, and redistricting under the Bush administration and what lessons we can take from the last eight years. Karlan has participated in extensive pro bono litigation representing civil rights and civil liberties groups, minority voters, elected officials, and others. On the basis of her voting rights work, the American Lawyer named her one of its Public Sector 45, a group of young lawyers "actively using their law degrees to change lives." Sponsored by the Program in Public Law and the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy. For more information, contact Dana Norvell at norvell@law.duke.edu.