Nathaniel Persily
Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Nathaniel Persily, Public Opinion and Bush v. Gore: Ten Years Later, in Election Administration in the United States: The State of Reform After Bush v. Gore, Michael Alvarez and Bernard Grofman (eds), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming [with Amy Semet and Stephen Ansolabehere]
Nathaniel Persily, editor, The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court's Decision and Its Implications, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. [edited with Gillian Metzger and Trevor Morrison]
Nathaniel Persily, Drawing Lines in Shifting Sands: The DOJ, The VRA and the 2011 Redistricting Process, 23 Stanford Law & Policy Review 345 (2012).
Nathaniel Persily The Law of the Census: How to Count, what to Count, Whom to Count, and Where to Count them [Symposium : Acknowledging Race in a "Post-Racial" Era], 32 Cardozo Law Review 755, 2011.
Nathaniel Persily, Partisanship, public opinion, and redistricting, in Race, Reform, and Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011 [with Joshua Fougere and Stephen Ansolabehere].
Nathaniel Persily, Foreword : The Legacy of Bush v. Gore in Public Opinion and American Law [Symposium Issue : Bush v. Gore : A Decade Later] 23 St. Thomas Law Review 325 (2011).
Nathaniel Persily, Profiling Originalism, 111 Columbia Law Review 356 (2011) [with Jamal Greene and Stephen Ansolabehere].
Nathaniel Persily, Measuring Election System Performance, 13 New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 445 (2011) [with Stephen Ansolabehere].
Nathaniel Persily, Race, Region, and Vote Choice in the 2008 Election: Implications for the Future of the Voting Rights Act, 123 Harvard Law Review 1385 (2010) (with Stephen Ansolabehere and Charles Stewart).
Nathaniel Persily, "Celebrating" the Tenth Anniversary of the 2000 Election Controversy : What the World can Learn from the Recent History of Election Dysfunction in the United States [Symposium], 44 Indiana Law Review 85 (2010).
Nathaniel Persily, Partisanship, public opinion, and redistricting, 9 Election Law Journal 325 (2010). [with Fougere, Joshua and Ansolabehere, Stephen]
Nathaniel Persily, Eric Himpton Holder, Stephen Ansolabehere, Charles Haines Stewart, Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District, Number One & United States, Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One, Appellant, v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General of the United States of America, Et Al., Appellees : On Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia : Brief for Nathaniel Persily, Stephen Ansolabehere, and Charles Stewart III as Amici Curiae on Behalf of neither Party, 2009.
Nathaniel Persily, Fig Leaves and Tea Leaves in the Supreme Court’s Recent Election Law Decisions, 2008 Supreme Court Review 89 (2009).
Nathaniel Persily, Defacing Democracy?: The Changing Nature and Rising Importance of as-Applied Challenges in the Supreme Court's Recent Election Law Decisions [Symposium : Law & Politics in the 21st Century] [with Jennifer Rosenberg], 93 Minnesota Law Review 1644 (2009).
Nathaniel Persily, Vote Fraud in the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Public Opinion in the Challenge to Voter Identification Requirements, 121 Harvard Law Review 1737 (2008) (with Stephen Ansolabehere).
Nathaniel Persily, Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy (Oxford University Press, 2008) (edited with Jack Citrin and Patrick Egan).
Nathaniel Persily, The Constitutional Relevance of Alleged Legislative Dysfunction, 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 256 (2008).
Nathaniel Persily, The Promise and Pitfalls of the New Voting Rights Act, 117 Yale Law Journal 174 (2007).
Nathaniel Persily, The Promise and Pitfalls of the New Voting Rights Act, 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 139 (2007).
Nathaniel Persily, Political Questions and Political Cases : The Evolving Justifications for Judicial Involvement in Politics in the Political Question Doctrine and the Supreme Court of the United States [Edited by Mourtada-Sabbah,Nada;Cain,Bruce E.], Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.