Samuel Issacharoff (born 1954) is an American law professor, whose scholarly work focuses on

constitutional law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in fe ...

voting rights Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in representative democracy, public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally i ...

and

civil procedure Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the rules and standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits (as opposed to procedures in criminal law matters). These rules govern how a lawsuit or case may be commenced; what kin ...

Career

Issacharoff graduated from Binghamton University in 1975 and

Yale Law School Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by '' U.S. News & Worl ...

in 1983. He was a member of the

Spartacist League (US) The Spartacist League is a Trotskyist political grouping which is the United States section of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), formerly the International Spartacist Tendency. This Spartacist League named themselves ...

as a student. Issacharoff was born in

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in Buenos Aires. He is currently the Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of

Constitutional Law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in fe ...

New York University School of Law New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is the law school of New York University, a private research university in New York City. Established in 1835, it is the oldest law school in New York City and the oldest surviving law school in N ...

. He served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School for the Fall 2008 semester. Prior to joining

NYU Law New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is the law school of New York University, a private research university in New York City. Established in 1835, it is the oldest law school in New York City and the oldest surviving law school in New ...

's faculty, he taught at

Columbia Law School Columbia Law School (Columbia Law or CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked i ...

and

The University of Texas School of Law The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is the law school of the University of Texas at Austin. Texas Law is consistently ranked as one of the top law schools in the United States and is highly selective—registering the 8th lowest ac ...

. In 2017, Issacharof was interviewed by Suraj Patel for ''Talks on Law'' on the topic of

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Personal life

His wife,

Cynthia Estlund Cynthia Estlund (born 1957) is the Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. Career Estlund teaches labor law, employment law, and property law and has published numerous articles on the subject of labor and em ...

, is a labor and employment-law professor, also at New York University School of Law.

Publications

''The Supreme Court, 2012 Term — Comment: Beyond the Discrimination Model on Voting''
127 Harv. L. Rev. 95 (2013).
''The Supreme Court, 2009 Term — Comment: On Political Corruption''
124 Harv. L. Rev. 118 (2010).
''Fragile Democracies''
120 Harv. L. Rev. 1405 (2007). *''Party Funding and Campaign Financing in International Perspective'' with

Keith Ewing Keith David Ewing (born 29 March 1955) is professor of public law at King's College London and recognised as a leading scholar in public law, constitutional law, law of democracy, labour law and human rights. Ewing's work has been considered ...

(eds.) (2006) *''Civil Procedure'' (2005) (pbk. : alk. paper). *''The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process'' with

Pamela S. Karlan Pamela Susan Karlan (born 1959) is an American legal scholar who is the principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. She is on a leave of absence from Stanford Law School. A ...

, Richard H. Pildes. (1998) (alk. paper). *''The State of Voting Rights Law'' (1993). *''When Elections Go Bad: The Law of Democracy and the Presidential Election of 2000'' with

, Richard H. Pildes. Rev. ed. (2001) (alk. paper)

References

External links

NYU faculty profilePapers by Samuel Issacharoff in SSRN''New York Observer'', "NYU's Big Raid"
1954 births Living people American legal scholars New York University faculty Yale Law School alumni Binghamton University alumni Columbia University faculty University of Texas at Austin faculty Harvard Law School faculty New York University School of Law faculty {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub