Christopher S. Elmendorf

Publications

• Plain-Bagel Streamlining? Notes from the California Housing Wars
  75 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 263 (2024) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2024
• When Super-Statutes Collide: CEQA, the Housing Accountability Act, and Tectonic Change in Land Use Law
  49 ECOLOGY L. Q. 655 (2023) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2023
• Making It Work: Legal Foundations for Administrative Reform of California’s Housing Framework
  47 ECOLOGY L. Q. 973 (2021) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2021
• Auctioning the Upzone
  70 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 513 (2020) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2020

• Beyond the Double Veto: Housing Plans as Preemptive Intergovernmental Compacts
  71 UC L.J. 79 (2019) · UC Law Journal · 2019
• From Educational Adequacy to Representational Adequacy: A New Template for Legal Attacks on Partisan Gerrymanders
  59 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1601 (2018) · William & Mary Law Review · 2018
• Appendix: Text and Precedent for Representational Adequacy Claims Under Fifty State Constitutions
  59 WM. & MARY L. REV. ONLINE 121 (2018) · William & Mary Law Review Online · 2018
• Racially Polarized Voting
  83 U. CHI. L. REV. (2016) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2016
• The Geography of Racial Stereotyping: Evidence and Implications for VRA Preclearance After Shelby County
  102 CAL. L. REV. 1123 (2014) · California Law Review · 2014
• Why Party Democrats Need Popular Democracy and Popular Democrats Need Parties
  100 CAL. L. REV. 69 (2012) · California Law Review · 2012
• Districting for a Low-Information Electorate
  121 YALE L.J. 1846 (2012) · Yale Law Journal · 2012
• Refining the Democracy Canon
  95 CORNELL L. REV. 1051 (2010) · Cornell Law Review · 2010
• Panel 4: The Future of Direct Democracy – Reforming the Initiative Process
  Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 2010

• Undue Burdens on Voter Participation: New Pressures for a Structural Theory of the Right to Vote
  35 UC L. CONST. Q. 643 (2008) · UC Law Constitutional Quarterly · 2008
• Gatekeeping vs. Balancing in the Constitutional Law of Elections: Methodological Uncertainty on the High Court
  17 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 507 (2008) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2008
• Advisory Counterparts to Constitutional Courts
  56 DUKE L.J. 953 (2007) · Duke Law Journal · 2007
• Securing Ecological Investments on Other People's Land: A Transaction-Costs Perspective
  44 NAT. RESOURCES J. 529 (2004) · Natural Resources Journal · 2004
• State Courts, Citizen Suits, and the Enforcement of Federal Environmental Law by Non-Article III Plaintiffs
  110 YALE L.J. 1003 (2001) · Yale Law Journal · 2001