Edward B. Foley holds the Ebersold Chair i n Constitutional Law at The Ohio State University\, where he also directs its election law program. Join him during this program for a lively discus sion about the electoral college in the United States: its history\, prese nt\, and future. Foley's \;new book\, \;Presidential Elections and Majority Rule \;(Oxford University Press\, 2020)\, excavates the long-forgotten philosophical premises of how the Electoral College is supposed to work\, as revised by the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Consti tution\, and then uses this historical analysis to provide a feasible basi s for reform of state laws that would enable the Electoral College to oper ate according to majority-rule objectives it was designed to achieve.
\ nHis book \;Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections i n the United States \;(Oxford University Press\, 2016) was named Finalist for the David J. Langum\, Sr. Prize in American Legal History and listed as one of 100 &ldquo\;must-read books about law and social justice &rdquo\;.
\nAs Reporter for the American Law Institute&rsquo\;s Proj ect on Election Administration\, Foley drafted \;Principles of Law : Non-Precinct Voting and Resolution of Ballot-Counting Disputes\, wh ich provides nonpartisan guidance for the resolution of election disputes. \; He has also co-authored \;Election Law and Litigation: The Judicial Regulation of Politics \;(Wolters Kluwer 2014).
\nDuring his fellowship at Stanford University&rsquo\;s Center on Democracy \, Development\, and the Rule of Law\, Foley wrote \;Due Process\, Fair Play and Excessive Partisanship: A New Principle of Judicial Review of Election Law\, 84 U. Chicago Law Review 655-758 (2017)\, which was cited in briefs in \;Gill v. Whitford \;and \;Be nisek v. Lamone \;(the Supreme Court gerrymandering cases). His o p-ed and other essays have appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Pos t\, Politico\, and Slate\, among other publications\, and he frequently wr ites online commentary on election law issues of public interest.
\nFoley clerked for Chief Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeal s for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Harry Blackmun of the United States Sup reme Court. \;He has also served as State Solicitor in the office of Ohio&rsquo\;s Attorney General\, where he was responsible for the state&rs quo\;s appellate and constitutional litigation.
\nProfessor Foley is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law and Yale College.
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