Ellen D. Katz

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Ellen D. Katz
Born1968 or 1969 (age 54–55)
Nationality
Law professor
Spouse
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(m. 1996)​
Parent(s)Arlene and Seymour Katz

Ellen D. Katz (born 1968 or 1969) is an American legal scholar at the

Voting Rights Act, she wrote a widely cited empirical study of litigation under that act.[2]

Education and career

Katz received her

Yale Law Journal.[2] Katz served as a law clerk to Judge Judith W. Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court.[2]

Katz was an attorney with the appellate sections of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division and Environment and Natural Resources Division before joining the Michigan Law faculty in 1999.[2][3]

Katz's work focuses on minority representation, political equality, and

law journals, including the Michigan Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.[3]

At Michigan, Katz has taught

education law, and local government law, among other courses.[4]

Katz has been described as "a liberal law professor and a big fan of the

VRA's section 5.[7]

Katz was a critic of the Supreme Court decision in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder in 2009, stating that its narrow statutory, rather than constitutional, ruling was "an improbable one"[8] that "allows just everybody involved in the case to declare victory."[9]

Katz is a critic of the Supreme Court's "

congruence and proportionality" test for the congressional power of enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments, arguing in her 2003 article Reinforcing Representation that the framers of these Reconstruction amendments intended Congress to have broader power.[10]

Katz has contributed to Richard L. Hasen's Election Law Blog.[11]

In Katz's 2009 article Withdrawal: The Roberts Court and the Retreat from Election Law, Katz examined four important election law decisions of the Roberts Court (Lopez Torres, Washington State Grange, Crawford, and Riley) and criticized the Court's "retreat from its longstanding role as the primary guardian of voting rights" as "coming close to embracing empty formalism."[12]

Personal life

Katz is married to Daniel Halberstam, who is also a professor at the University of Michigan Law School.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Steven D. Schwinn, Katz on the Roberts Court and Election Law, Constitutional Law Prof Blog (Feb. 9, 2009).
  2. ^ a b c d e f Faculty profile: Ellen D. Katz. University of Michigan Law School.
  3. ^ a b c History and Traditions - Ellen D. Katz, University of Michigan Law School.
  4. ^ Courses Taught by: Ellen D. Katz, University of Michigan Law School.
  5. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  6. ^ Eliza Newlin Carney, Minority Voter Protection In The Age Of Obama Archived 2012-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, Nat'l J. (Feb. 16, 2011).
  7. Rick Hasen, NAMUDNO: Ellen Katz’s Transformation?
    Election L. Blog (Apr. 28, 2009 7:43 A.M.).
  8. ^ Adam Liptak, Justices Retain Oversight by U.S. on Voting, N.Y. Times (June 22, 2009).
  9. ^ Michael Doyle, Supreme Court eases Voting Rights Act regulations, McClatchy Newspapers (June 22, 2009).
  10. ^ Will Trachman, The Danger of the Drafters' Intent: Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Need to Limit Congressional Power, FindLaw (Apr. 14, 2004) (commenting on Ellen D. Katz, Reinforcing Representation: Congressional Power to Enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in the Rehnquist and Waite Courts, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 2341 (2003)).
  11. ^ Ellen D. Katz, Why Reauthorization is Different, Election L. Blog (June 20, 2006).
  12. ^ Steven D. Schwinn, Katz on the Roberts Court and Election Law, Constitutional Law Prof Blog (Feb. 9, 2009) (commenting on Ellen D. Katz, Withdrawal: The Roberts Court and the Retreat from Election Law, 93 Minn. L. Rev. 1615 (2009)).
  13. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2024-04-03.

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