James A. Gardner BRIDGET AND THOMAS BLACK SUNY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR JD, University of Chicago Law School BA, Yale University
(716) 645-3607
jgard@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE OF POLITICS LAW AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY ELECTION LAW
The Trump presidency,
FEDERALISM
and the social and political
STATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
movements it summoned forth, have drastically altered the constitutional, democratic, and political landscapes. My most recent work, drawing heavily on comparative sources tracing the rise of authoritarianism around the globe, focuses on the impact that American populism and authoritarianism have
Transmission of Mastery, 69 Buffalo Law Review 55 (2021). Democratic Legitimacy under Conditions of Severely Depressed Voter Turnout, University of Chicago Law Review Online 24 (2020).
BOOKS
Lessons from a Journey through
Comparative Election Law
Subnational Constitutional
(edited volume) (Edward Elgar
Law, 72 Rutgers University
Publishing, forthcoming 2022).
Law Review 1187 (2020).
Legal Argument: The Structure and
Active Judicial Governance, 51 New
Language of Effective Advocacy
England Law Review 545 (2018).
(with Christine Bartholomew) (Carolina
had, and are having, on the
Academic Press, 3rd ed., 2020).
U.S. system of constitutional
The Theory and Practice of Contestatory Federalism, 60 William
democracy. The questions
Election Law in the American
I seek to address are basic,
& Mary Law Review 507 (2018).
Political System (with Guy-Uriel
and alarming: Will American democracy survive? Will Americans continue to enjoy
Charles) (Aspen, 2nd ed., 2018)
CHAPTERS
(1st ed. 2012).
The Concept of “Equilibrium” in Federal Constitutions, in The Law and Politics
the liberties to which they have become accustomed? Will the long American project
ARTICLES
of Federalism (Erin F. Delaney, ed.,
Federalism and the Limits of
Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2022).
Subnational Political Heterogeneity,
to perfect a liberal democracy of
Wisconsin Law Review 1097 (2021).
equal citizens continue in any
El Misterioso Exito de una Democracia Federal, in Democracia y Forma
form, or will it be abandoned?”
Illiberalism and Authoritarianism in
Constitucional (Pablo C. Riberi
the American States, 70 American
& Pedro Salazar, eds., Instituto de
University Law Review 829 (2021).
Investigaciones Juridicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
The Illiberalization of American Election Law: A Study in Democratic Deconsolidation, 90 Fordham Law Review 423 (2021).
22
forthcoming 2022) (Spanish).
