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2025 Arnold Lecture and Symposium

February 20 at 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Courts and Democracy: Reflections on the 2024 Election

In partnership with the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service and the Clinton Presidential Center

Feb 20, 2025 at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Reception: 5-6 p.m. in the  Cultural Living Room, AMFA
Welcome, Keynote and Remarks, Q&A: 6-7:45 p.m. in the Lecture Hall, AMFA

Event Details

The lecture and symposium, “Courts and Democracy: Reflections on the 2024 Election,” is scheduled one month to the day after the 2024 Presidential Inauguration, and will feature an ideologically diverse panel of election law experts. The event’s keynote speaker will be Dan Tokaji, the Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. Tokaji is a leading authority in the field of election law. He has been interviewed and quoted by outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Tokaji’s scholarship addresses questions of voting rights, free speech, and democratic inclusion.

Derek T. Muller and Eugene D. Mazo, nationally recognized scholars in the field of election law, will also speak. Muller, a Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School, researches the role of states in the administration of federal elections, the constitutional contours of voting rights and election administration, the limits of judicial power in the domain of elections, and the Electoral College. Mazo, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University. His focus is on the theory and practice of democracy and the editor of the The Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (2024).

Details

Date:
February 20
Time:
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Organizer

Bowen School of Law
Phone
501-916-3434
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Venue

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Little Rock, United States
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