AALS Section on Election Law Award Winners

From Joshua Sellers, the Chair of the AALS Section on Election Law:

The AALS Section on Election Law is pleased to announce the winners of its annual awards.

The John Hart Ely Prize in the Law of Democracy

This award is presented annually by the executive committee of the AALS Section on Election Law to a senior scholar in the field for his or her “extraordinary lifetime contributions to the study of election law and the law of democracy in the United States.” This year’s recipient is Daniel Lowenstein (UCLA).

Distinguished Scholarship Award in Election Law

This award is presented annually in recognition of “a single work that exemplifies excellence in the field and that is published in a given year.” Winners are chosen by a scholarship selection committee which, in some years, additionally awards an honorable mention. Because no award was given last year, this year the Section decided to recognize winners for the past two years.

The winner for 2025 is Travis Crum (Wash U – St. Louis) for his article, The Unabridged Fifteenth Amendment, 133 Yale Law Journal 1039 (2024).

The winner for 2024 is Jacob Eisler (Florida State) for his book “The Law of Freedom: The Supreme Court and Democracy” (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

The selection committee also decided to award an honorable mention to Nicholas Stephanopoulos (Harvard) for his book “Aligning Election Law” (Oxford University Press, 2024).

The winners will be recognized at the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting.

Comments

[A non]

The current president isn't even compos mentis, yet still holds office. The current candidate from his party was chosen through a virtual nominating process. Their party has, over the last several years, also helped to undermine basic election law and rule of law considerations in ways that no other Western country would tolerate or deem to be legitimate.

Has the award winner, and the runners up, helped to try to justify these things? Was the competition process democratic, transparent and fair?

[anon]

The study of "election" law is today the study of ways to a.) demonize any "opposition" to the left, b.) justify any action undertaken by a one party state, and c.) stack the "democratic" systems to enable tyranny of the majority, which the left assumes it will maintain by any means necessary.
From the blurb:
"Jacob Eisler questions why the Court has the moral authority to shape democracy at all."
This reported thesis (not having read the book!) appears to almost perfectly encapsulate the "philosophy" of the ultra-left that rejects the inherently anti-democratic nature of the court, in that it enforces the CONSTITUTION and restrains the rule of the mob.
And, who are the totalitarians?