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Professor of law
Expertise: election law, First Amendment, third parties, free speech, law and religion, church-state law, media regulation, free press, the Constitution
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| Gregory Magarian |
Magarian is a leading expert in the areas of election law, the electoral system, free speech, the First Amendment and constitutional law. He is the author of a number of articles including the forthcoming "Substantive Media Regulation in Three Dimensions" (George Washington Law Review).
Magarian served as a law clerk to the Honorable Louis Oberdorfer of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the Honorable John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court.
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Education:
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B.A. at Yale University
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M.A. in Public Policy at University of Michigan
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J.D. at University of Michigan
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ACORN controversy
Voter fraud allegations are pure bluster, says election law expert
Oct. 24,
2008 --
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"No evidence exists of any serious threat of voter fraud, at present or in any recent election cycle," says Greg Magarian, J.D., election law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. The current cries of 'fraud' focus on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a public interest organization that advocates for low- and moderate- income and minority citizens. "Filing false registration forms does not constitute voter fraud," he says. "Voter fraud requires voting by a person who is not legally entitled to vote. That is a difficult trick to pull off, and simply turning in a registration form for 'Captain Crunch' does almost nothing to enable it."
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What about the Whigs?
Electoral system imposes formidable barriers to minor parties and drives politics to the center, says election law expert
Aug. 20,
2008 --
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"Minor political parties' inability to gain traction in the United States does not reflect natural facets of our national character," says Gregory P. Magarian, election law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, home of the 2008 vice presidential debate. "Rather, our legal system imposes formidable barriers to minor parties' electoral viability. The use of plurality voting (the candidate with the most votes gets the only prize) and single-member districts in congressional and most state legislative elections drives voters to coalesce around only two electoral options, marginalizing any candidate who lacks a major-party brand." Magarian is available to discuss general election law and electoral system issues.
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Obama-McCain contest: Should winner of popular vote always win the White House?
The Christian Science Monitor
Sept. 4,
2008 -- Efforts to change or abolish the Electoral College are hardly new.
The National Popular Vote drive differs in its tactics, though not its aims, from these previous efforts. Rather than a top-down strategy aimed at Congress, it seeks to enact change at the grass roots - state legislatures.
WUSTL law professor and election law expert Gregory Magarian comments on their strategy.
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