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University of Kentucky
College of Law
620 S. Limestone
Lexington, KY 40506-0048
Phone: 859.257.1678
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Profile >> Joshua A. Douglas

Title:
Assistant Professor of Law

Department:
Faculty

Specialty:
Election Law
Voting Rights
Civil Procedure
S. Ct. Decison Making

Phone:
859-257-4935

Email:
joshuadouglas@uky.edu

Curriculum Vitae:
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Professor Joshua A. Douglas is a leading election law expert who studies vote counting rules and post-election disputes, judicial interaction with the election process, election administration, and procedural aspects of election law cases. His work also analyzes alternative methods for resolving disputed elections, the interaction of election law and civil procedure, and constitutional issues surrounding the right to vote.

Professor Douglas has published in top journals, including the Vanderbilt Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, and the Election Law Journal. His article Procedural Fairness in Election Contests was a winner of the 2011-12 SEALS Call for Papers, and he has been cited extensively in major law review articles and case books in the field. He is also a co-author of a new Election Law case book (Aspen Publishers, forthcoming 2014). In addition, his media commentaries and quotes have appeared in Reuters, Politico, Huffington Post, and various other newspapers and websites.

Professor Douglas teaches Election Law, Civil Procedure, and a seminar on Supreme Court decision making. Prior to law school, Professor Douglas clerked for the Honorable Edward C. Prado of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced litigation at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. Professor Douglas earned his J.D. from George Washington University Law School, where he was an articles editor on the Law Review and was the recipient of the Imogen Williford Constitutional Law Award for excellence in Constitutional Law.

Professor Douglas is involved in the local community, serving as President of his neighborhood association. In his spare time, he spends time with his wife and young daughter, trains for marathons, watches baseball, and travels the country and the world.

Publications

Case Book
Election Law Litigation (Aspen 2014) (forthcoming) (with Edward B. Foley and Michael J. Pitts)

Academic Publications
The Right to Vote Under State Constitutions, 67 Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming 2014).

Election Law Pleading, 81 George Washington Law Review___ (forthcoming 2013).

Discouraging Election Contests, 47 University of Richmond Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2013).

To HAVA, and Beyond!, 12 Election Law Journal ___ (forthcoming 2013) (reviewing Martha Kropf & David C. Kimball, Helping America Vote (2011)).

Procedural Fairness in Election Contests, 88 Indiana Law Journal 1 (2013) (winner of the 2011-12 SEALS Call for Papers).

Enlivening Election Law, 56 St. Louis U. L.J. 767 (2012) (solicited for Teaching Election Law issue).

Election Law and Civil Discourse: The Promise of ADR, 27 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 291 (2012).

The Procedure of Election Law in Federal Courts, 2011 Utah L. Rev. 433.

The Voting Rights Act Through the Justices’ Eyes: NAMUDNO and Beyond, 88 Tex. L. Rev. See Also 1 (2009).

The Significance of the Shift Toward As-Applied Challenges in Election Law, 37 Hofstra L. Rev. 635 (2009).

Is the Right to Vote Really Fundamental? 18 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 143 (2008).

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