Richard_Pildes

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Pildes Richard Pildes Richard H. Pildes Born Nationality Fields Institutions Alma mater 1957 Chicago, Illinois United States Constitutional Law New York University School of Law Princeton University Harvard Law School Richard H. Pildes (born 1957) is a law professor at the New York University School of Law and a leading expert on election law. He is one of the nation’s leading scholars of public law and a specialist in legal issues affecting democracy. The son of two Chicago-area physicians, Pildes received his A.B., summa cum laude, in physical chemistry from Princeton in 1979, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard in 1983. He clerked for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court (where he clerked alongside future colleague and NYU Law Dean Richard Revesz), after which he practiced law in Boston. He began his academic career at the University of Michigan Law School, where he was assistant and then full professor of law from 1988 until 1999, when he joined the NYU School of Law faculty. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University of Texas Law School. He was a member of Princeton’s track and cross-country teams where he was known as "Ironman." Before law school he worked at a ski resort in Colorado, although he is no longer fanatical about skiing. In the area of democracy, Pildes, along with the co-authors of his widely-used casebook, The Law of Democracy, has helped to create a new field of study in law schools. Pildes is a leading scholar on the topics of the Voting Rights Act, alternative voting systems (such as cumulative voting), the history of disfranchisement in the United States, and the general relationship between constitutional law and democratic politics in the design of democratic institutions themselves. His work in these areas has been frequently cited in United States Supreme Court opinions. Pildes gives frequent public lectures and appearances, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his legal analysis during the 2000 Presidential election litigation. During the 2000 Presidential election controversy, he had an exclusive media contract with NBC and appeared frequently on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, MSNBC, and WNBC-TV. He is also an active public intellectual and public-law litigator. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The American Prospect, and other such publications. Apart from his academic work, Pildes has also served as a federal court-appointed independent expert on voting rights litigation, an assistant to a special master for the redistricting of a state legislature, and has worked with North Carolina in redistricting litigation before the United States Supreme Court. He was assisted with one of his casebooks by then-University of Chicago Law School professor Barack Obama.[1] Representative Bibliography • The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process with Pamela S. Karlan, Samuel Issacharoff. 2nd ed. (2001). • When Elections Go Bad: The Law of Democracy and the Presidential Election 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia of 2000 with Pamela S. Karlan, Samuel Issacharoff. Rev. ed. (2001). The Future of the Voting Rights Act with David Epstein, Rodolfo de la Garza and Sharyn O’Halloran. "Separation of Parties, Not Powers." with Daryl Levinson. 119 Harvard Law Review 2311 (2006). "The Supreme Court, 2003 TermForeword: The Constitutionalization of Democratic Politics." 118 Harvard Law Review 29 (2004). "Democrats and Technocrats," with Cass Sunstein. Journees d’etudes juridiques Jean Dabin (2004). "Competitive, Deliberative, and RightsOriented Democracy," 3 Election Law Journal 685 (2004). • Shaw v. Reno Richard Pildes • References • • [1] Kantor, Jodi (July 30, 2008). "Teaching Law, Testing Ideas, Obama Stood Slightly Apart". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/ politics/ 30law.html?ex=1375156800&en=337ecbaa93d25b8 Retrieved on 2008-10-27. • External links • • • • NYU School of Law Faculty Page New York Times Profile Full CV Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Publications Page • Litigation History from Findlaw (Requires Registration) • Princeton track records • See also • List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pildes" Categories: 1957 births, Living people, American legal academics, Princeton University alumni, Harvard Law School alumni, University of Michigan faculty, New York University faculty, American lawyers, Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States This page was last modified on 8 February 2009, at 05:31 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) 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