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Democracy in the Courts: The 2024 Election and Beyond 2025

Product ID: CA3799R
Presented By: State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE

Of courts and contested elections

In an era marked by tightly contested races, shifting state rules, and high-profile litigation, courts play an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the democratic process. From voting rights to candidate eligibility, the judiciary serves as both referee and guardian of constitutional principles. Familiarity with how courts have engaged with and interpreted election law is essential to understanding what happened in 2024 – and to prepare for what’s coming next. 

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Democracy in the Courts: The 2024 Election and Beyond examines how judges and justices have ruled on questions about the electoral process before, during, and after votes are cast. 

You’ll analyze how courts handle ballot disputes, voting procedure conflicts, and constitutional challenges, and gain valuable insights into what recent litigation reveals about the future of election law. 

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Member $99.00

Non-Member $149.00

Credits

1 CLE

Date and Time

Thursday, July 10, 202512:00 PM - 12:50 PM CT

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Of courts and contested elections

In an era marked by tightly contested races, shifting state rules, and high-profile litigation, courts play an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the democratic process. From voting rights to candidate eligibility, the judiciary serves as both referee and guardian of constitutional principles. Familiarity with how courts have engaged with and interpreted election law is essential to understanding what happened in 2024 – and to prepare for what’s coming next. 

Poll positions 

Democracy in the Courts: The 2024 Election and Beyond examines how judges and justices have ruled on questions about the electoral process before, during, and after votes are cast. 

You’ll analyze how courts handle ballot disputes, voting procedure conflicts, and constitutional challenges, and gain valuable insights into what recent litigation reveals about the future of election law. 

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Of courts and contested elections

In an era marked by tightly contested races, shifting state rules, and high-profile litigation, courts play an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the democratic process. From voting rights to candidate eligibility, the judiciary serves as both referee and guardian of constitutional principles. Familiarity with how courts have engaged with and interpreted election law is essential to understanding what happened in 2024 – and to prepare for what’s coming next. 

Poll positions 

Democracy in the Courts: The 2024 Election and Beyond examines how judges and justices have ruled on questions about the electoral process before, during, and after votes are cast. 

You’ll analyze how courts handle ballot disputes, voting procedure conflicts, and constitutional challenges, and gain valuable insights into what recent litigation reveals about the future of election law. 

Read More ↓

Dan Tokaji is the Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. As Dean, he serves as the school's chief academic and executive officer, with responsibility for faculty and staff development, personnel oversight, strategic planning and institutional vision, fundraising, budget planning and management, curriculum, and student academic affairs.

Dean Tokaji became Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2020. From 2003 to 2020, he was on the faculty at Ohio State University, where he served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Charles W. Ebersold & Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Professor of Constitutional Law. He has taught a wide variety of courses, including Civil Procedure, Civil Rights Lawyering, Comparative Constitutional Law, Election Law and Voting Rights, Federal Courts, First Amendment, Legal Analysis and Writing, Legislation and Regulation, and the U.S. Legal System. He has also taught at Harvard Law School, Hong Kong University, and Oxford University. 

A leading authority in the field of Election Law, Dean Tokaji’s scholarship addresses questions of voting rights, free speech, and democratic inclusion. He has published over 50 law review articles, book chapters, and other scholarly papers on a wide range of topics. His recent work includes "Election Law, Democracy, and Legal Education" in Beyond Imagination? The January 6 Insurrection (2022), “Voter Registration in a Pandemic,” University of Chicago Law Review Online (2020), “Denying Systemic Equality: The Last Words of the Kennedy Court,” Harvard Law & Policy Review (2019), and “Gerrymandering and Association,” William & Mary Law Review (2018). He is the author of Election Law in a Nutshell (2d ed. 2016), and co-author of Election Law: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 2022). 

Media have frequently relied on Dean Tokaji’s expertise on election law, voting rights, and free speech issues. He has been quoted or interviewed by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and National Public Radio, and many other outlets.

Dean Tokaji graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, with an A.B. degree in English and American Literature and Language and Philosophy, then earned a J.D. from Yale Law School. Dean Tokaji clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. A former civil rights lawyer, he has brought many free speech, racial justice, and voting rights cases over his career.

  • Identify how court decisions impact voting procedures and ballot access
  • Clarify the limits of state and federal authority in election oversight
  • Understand how litigation timelines and judicial review affect election outcomes
  • Evaluate the broader implications of recent election-related cases
  • Stay informed on key cases and issues influencing future litigation strategies 
  • Election lawyers 
  • Civil rights and liberties lawyers
  • Appellate lawyers 
  • Criminal law practitioners
  • Administrative lawyers
  • Government lawyers
  • Public interest lawyers
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