Days & Times
11 a.m. PDT/Noon MDT/1 p.m. CDT/2 p.m. EDT. 60 minutes.
Course Location
Online
Election Cases: The Timing
This first webinar helps prepare you to adjudicate an election case quickly, including milestones of the election calendar and the ways in which judicial dispute resolution may be incorporated. It will address the key election administration deadlines that state law commonly imposes, the timing and cadence of election processes, and how disruptions at one stage can affect later stages. It will give you the procedural tools for managing election disputes under compressed timelines, while accommodating the practical demands of election administration.
Professor Rebecca Green (William & Mary School of Law) teaches Election Law and co-directs the Election Law Program, a joint project of the William & Mary Law School and the National Center for State Courts. Professor Green also serves as an Associate Reporter for ALI’s Restatement of the Law, Election Litigation.
During this course, you will learn to:
- Identify key election administration deadlines that state law commonly imposes, by understanding the timing and cadence of election processes and how disruptions at one stage can affect later stages
- Apply procedural tools for managing election disputes under compressed timelines, while accommodating the practical demands of election administration.
- Identify constitutional and practical limitations on using court process to secure evidence in election disputes.
- Analyze the weight of direct or circumstantial evidence in election cases.
- Adjudicate evidentiary issues on an abbreviated schedule.
- Evaluate, in a time-constrained election case, equitable considerations related to laches, unclean hands, and to the overarching commitments in the field of election law that motivate the development of these doctrines
Election Cases: The Timing
This first webinar helps prepare you to adjudicate an election case quickly, including milestones of the election calendar and the ways in which judicial dispute resolution may be incorporated. It will address the key election administration deadlines that state law commonly imposes, the timing and cadence of election processes, and how disruptions at one stage can affect later stages. It will give you the procedural tools for managing election disputes under compressed timelines, while accommodating the practical demands of election administration.
Professor Rebecca Green (William & Mary School of Law) teaches Election Law and co-directs the Election Law Program, a joint project of the William & Mary Law School and the National Center for State Courts. Professor Green also serves as an Associate Reporter for ALI’s Restatement of the Law, Election Litigation.