Election Science Office Hours with Loyola Law School's Justin Levitt: Unpacking the Implications of President Trump's Election Executive Orders
Please join us on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 9:00 am Pacific for the next installment of Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project and moderated by R. Michael Alvarez, PhD, Flintridge Foundation Professor of Political and Computational Social Science at Caltech and Co-Director of the Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) at Caltech.
During this episode of Election Science Office Hours, Professor Alvarez's guest will be Justin Levitt, JD, Professor of Law and Gerald T. McLaughlin Fellow at Loyola Law School at Loyola Marymount University.
Professors Alvarez and Levitt will be discussing the impact of litigation in the U.S. electoral process, state and federal election laws, and presidential executive orders related to election administration and voting rights.
A nationally recognized scholar of constitutional law and the law of democracy, Professor Justin Levitt has returned to Loyola after serving from 2021-22 as the White House's first Senior Policy Advisor for Democracy and Voting Rights. Professor Levitt had previously served in the federal government as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Professor Levitt has published in the flagship law reviews at Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Georgetown, and William & Mary, the peer-reviewed Election Law Journal, and the flagship online law journals at Yale and NYU, among others. He has served as a visiting faculty member at the Yale Law School, UCLA School of Law, USC's Gould School of Law, and at Caltech. He was Loyola's Associate Dean for Research from 2017-20.
Professor Levitt received his BA from Harvard College, his MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and his JD from Harvard Law School, attaining magna cum laude at all three institutions.
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