J. Allen Douglas

Publications

• Introduction: There Must Be Something in the Water—or the Bourbon—in Kentucky: Voting Rights in the Bluegrass State
  111 KY. L.J. (2025) · Kentucky Law Journal · 2025
• The Power of the Electorate Under State Constitutions
  76 FLA. L. REV. 1679 (2024) · Florida Law Review · 2024
• A Major Wrong on a Private Right of Action Under the Voting Rights Act
  81 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1127 (2024) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 2024
• Undue Deference to States in the 2020 Election Litigation
  26 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 405 (2022) · Lewis & Clark Law Review · 2022
• Bring the Masks and Sanitizer: The Surprising Bipartisan Consensus About Safety Measures for In-Person Voting During the Coronavirus Pandemic
  55 GA. L. REV. (2021) · Georgia Law Review · 2021
• “How the Sausage Gets Made”: Voter ID and Deliberative Democracy
  100 NEB. L. REV. 376 (2021) · Nebraska Law Review · 2021
• Undue Deference to States in the 2020 Election Litigation
  30 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 59 (2021) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2021
• The Loch Ness Monster, Haggis, and a Lower Voting Age: What America Can Learn From Scotland
  69 AM. U. L. REV. (2020) · American University Law Review · 2020

• Precedent, Three-Judge District Courts, and the Law of Democracy
  107 GEO. L.J. (2019) · Georgetown Law Journal · 2019
• A Voice in the Wilderness: John Paul Stevens, Election Law, and a Theory of Impartial Governance
  60 WM. & MARY L. REV. 335 (2018) · William & Mary Law Review · 2018
• Local Democracy on the Ballot
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2017
• A "Checklist Manifesto" for Election Day: How to Prevent Mistakes at the Polls
  43 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 353 (2016) · Florida State University Law Review · 2016
• A Pivotal Moment for Election Law
  104 KY. L.J. (2016) · Kentucky Law Journal · 2016
• (Mis)Trusting States to Run Elections
  92 WASH. U. L. REV. 553 (2015) · Washington University Law Review · 2015
• The Right to Vote Under State Constitutions
  67 VAND. L. REV. 89 (2014) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2014
• Discouraging Election Contests
  47 U. RICH. L. REV. 1015 (2013) · University of Richmond Law Review · 2013
• The Foundational Importance of Participation: A Response to Professor Flanders
  66 OKLA. L. REV. 81 (2013) · Oklahoma Law Review · 2013
• Procedural Fairness in Election Contests
  88 IND. L.J. (2013) · Indiana Law Journal · 2013
• Enlivening Election Law
  56 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2012) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2012
• The Procedure of Election Law in Federal Courts
  2011 UTAH L. REV. (2011) · Utah Law Review · 2011

• The Significance of the Shift Toward As-Applied Challenges in Election Law
  37 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2009) · Hofstra Law Review · 2009
• Is the Right to Vote Really Fundamental
  18 CORNELL J. L. & PUB. POL'Y 143 (2008) · Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy · 2008
• The "Most Valuable Sort of Property": Constructing White Identity in American Law, 1880-1940
  40 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 881 (2003) · San Diego Law Review · 2003