The competition invites legal and social science practitioners, scholars, and
students to submit papers that will identify partisan gerrymanders and
distinguish them from districts drawn using neutral redistricting principles
while developing legal theories or arguments that could be used by courts to
declare partisan gerrymanders unconstitutional. This year, we are asking
authors to focus specifically on the First Amendment issue in Shapiro
and Whitford to demonstrate why the drawing of Maryland’s congressional
districts or Wisconsin’s Assembly districts is a partisan gerrymander that
should be condemned under the First Amendment. Winning papers are selected by a
distinguished panel of democracy scholars.
Winning authors will receive:
- Prize Money: 1st place: $5,000, 2nd place: $3,000, 3rd place: $2,000
- Publication in Election Law Journal
- Payment of travel expenses to present papers at a national redistricting reform symposium.
Deadline: May 1, 2016.
If you have any questions, contact Dan Vicuna at (213) 623-1216
or contest@commoncause.org.
See submission requirements and further details in the link provided below.
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