This just in from Gene Mazo:
The AALS Section on Election Law has established a new lifetime achievement award: the John Hart Ely Prize in the Law of Democracy. This prize will henceforth be presented annually by the Section’s executive committee to a senior scholar for his or her "extraordinary lifetime contributions to election law or the law of democracy in the United States." The John Hart Ely Prize is intended to serve as the most prestigious award in the field of election law.
We are very pleased to announce that the inaugural winner of the John Hart Ely Prize is Professor Richard Briffault of Columbia Law School.
Professor Briffault has taught election law longer than any other active scholar in the American legal academy. He is the author of more than 75 law review articles, in the process profoundly influencing our understanding of public funding, campaign finance, state and local government law, and other topics in the law of democracy.
The John Hart Ely Prize will be presented to Professor Briffault at an AALS awards ceremony on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 1:15 p.m. If you will be attending AALS this year, please try to make it.
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