Ellen D. Katz

Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law
Member of University of Michigan Law School Faculty 1999-

Publications

Books

• Co-author. Documenting Discrimination in Voting: Judicial Findings Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Since 1982 (Final Report of the Voting Rights Initiative, University of Michigan Law School), with M. Aisenbrey, et al., co-authors. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Law School, 2005.
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Book Chapters

• "Not Like the South? Regional Variation and Political Participation Through the Lens of Section 2." In Voting Rights Act Reauthorization of 2006: Perspectives on Democracy, Participation, and Power, edited by A. Henderson, 183-221. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2007.
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Journal Articles

• "South Carolina's 'Evolutionary Process.'" Columbia Law Review Sidebar 113, no. 55 (2013): 55-65.
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• "Post-Argument Commentary: Dismissing Deference." SCOTUSblog (Feburary 28, 2013).
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• "Shelby County v. Holder: Why Section 2 matters." SCOTUSblog (February 15, 2013).
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• "On Overreaching, or Why Rick Perry May Save the Voting Rights Act but Destroy Affirmative Action." Election L. J. 11, no. 4 (2012): 420-30.
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• "Grutter's Denouement: Three Templates from the Roberts Court." Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 107 (2012): 140-50.
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• "Democrats at DOJ: Why Partisan Use of the Voting Rights Act Might Not Be So Bad After All." Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. 23, no. 2 (2012): 415-30.
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• "Engineering the Endgame." Mich L. Rev. 109, no. 3 (2010): 349-86.
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• "From Bush v. Gore to NAMUDNO: A Response to Professor Amar." Fla. L. Rev. 61, no. 5 (2009): 991-1000.
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• "Withdrawal: The Roberts Court and the Retreat from Election Law." Minn. L. Rev. 93, no. 5 (2009): 1615-43.
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• "Barack Obama, Margarita Lopez Torres, and the Path to Nomination." Election L.J. 8, no. 4 (2009): 369-81.
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• "Why Counting Votes Doesn't Add Up: A Response to Cox and Miles' Judging the Voting Rights Act." A. Baldwin, co-author. Colum. L. Rev. Sidebar 108 (2008): 23-30.
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• "Reviving the Right to Vote." Ohio St. L. J. 68, no. 4 (2007): 1163-84.
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• "Mission Accomplished?" Yale L. J. Pocket Part 117 (2007): 142-7.
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• "Congressional Power to Extend Preclearance: A Response to Professor Karlan." Hous. L. Rev. 44, no. 1 (2007): 33-63.
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• "From Laredo to Fort Worth: Race, Politics and the Texas Redistricting Case." Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 105 (2006): 38-42.
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• "Resurrecting the White Primary." U. Pa. L. Rev. 153, no. 1 (2004): 325-92.
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• "Reinforcing Representation: Enforcing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in the Rehnquist and Waite Courts." Mich. L. Rev. 101, no. 7 (2003): 2341-408.
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• "Federalism, Preclearance, and the Rehnquist Court (Symposium: New Voices on the New Federalism)." Vill. L. Rev. 46, no. 5 (2001): 1179-218.
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• "Race and the Right to Vote after Rice v. Cayetano." Mich. L. Rev. 99, no. 3 (2000): 491-531.
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• "Private Order and Public Institutions (Comments on McMillan and Woodruff's 'Private Order under Dysfunctional Public Order.' )." Mich. L. Rev. 98, no. 8 (2000): 2481-93.
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• "State Judges, State Officers, and Federal Commands After Seminole Tribe and Printz." Wis. L. Rev. 1998, no. 6 (1998): 1465-546. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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• "African-American Freedom in Antebellum Cumberland County, Virginia." Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 70, no. 3 (1995): 927-92. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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Reprints (Articles and other publications reprinted in full and Law Quadrangle)

• Katz, Ellen D. (1999- ). "Shelby County v. Holder: Why Section 2 Matters." Law Quad. Notes 56, no. 1 (2013): 52-3. (Originally published under the same title in SCOTUSblog. February 28, 2013)
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• "Grutter's Denouement: Three Templates from the Roberts Court." Nw. U. L. Rev. 107, no. 2 (2013): 1045-55. (Originally published under the same title in Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy (October 7, 2012): 140-50.)
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• Co-author. "Documenting Discrimination in Voting: Judicial Findings Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Since 1982 (Final Report of the Voting Rights Initiative, University of Michigan Law School)." U. Mich. J. L. Reform 39, no. 4 (2006): 643-772. (With M. Aisenbrey, et al. Originally published under the same title by Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Law School, 2005.)
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• "Race and the Right to Vote after Rice v. Cayetano." C. R. Litig. & Att'y Fees Ann. Handbook 17 (2001): 12-1 to 12-47. (Originally published under the same title in Mich. L. Rev. 99, no. 3 (2000): 491-531.)

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