Election Law Clinic

The Election Law Clinic ("ELC") is the first in-house election law legal clinic in the United States, founded in 2021 at Harvard Law School to train future election lawyers.[1]

Election Law Clinic
HeadquartersCambridge, Massachusetts
No. of offices1
No. of lawyers3
Major practice areasElection law, voting rights, redistricting, census, campaign finance
Key peopleNicholas Stephanopoulos, Ruth Greenwood
Date founded2021
Websitehttp://www.hlselectionlaw.org

The Election Law Clinic represents clients and advocates for novel ideas in election law (voting rights, redistricting, census, and campaign finance).[2]

ELC employs three supervising attorneys and selects approximately twenty-four student members annually. Students are the primary handlers of all matters and gain experience in and outside of court. Students receive both classroom and clinical credits.[3]

Key actions

Key actions and cases brought by the Election Law Clinic include:

  • Staples v. DeSantis (October 15, 2021), a complaint of Writ Of Mandamus to remedy Governor DeSantis’s violation of § 100.111(2), Fla. Stat.[4][5]
  • Johnson v. Wisconsin Election Commission (October 25, 2021), the ELC filed a non-party brief to ask the Wisconsin Supreme Court to decline the use of “least-change” when redrawing district boundaries.[6]
  • Letter to Census Bureau re: "noisy measurements file" and other data products (August 20, 2021), The Election Law Clinic submits a letter on behalf of a group of experts to request the release of the “noisy measurements file” and other redistricting data by September 30, 2021.[7]

References
  1. "Election Law Clinic launches at Harvard Law School". Harvard Law Today. April 7, 2021. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  2. Yuh, Grace (April 7, 2021). "Training a new generation of election law lawyers". Harvard Law Today. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  3. "For Students | Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School". Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  4. Man, Anthony. "South Florida voters ask judge to compel DeSantis to call election to fill Democratic seats the Republican governor is keeping vacant". sun-sentinel.com. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  5. Greenwood, Ruth. "Staples v. DeSantis". Election Law Clinic.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission". Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  7. "Election Law Clinic submits letter to Census Bureau re: "noisy measurements file" and other redistricting data products". Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
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