Nathaniel Persily is a nationally recognized expert on election law and a frequent practitioner and media commentator in the area. Most recently, Professor Persily was appointed by courts to help draw legislative districting plans for Georgia, Maryland and New York and by the California State Senate as an expert in their redistricting litigation. With the help of his students in his Spring 2002 class in Constitutional Law, he wrote a Supreme Court amicus brief for the prevailing party in Utah v. Evans, a case involving a challenge to the “imputation‿ process used by the 2000 Census in creating apportionment totals. He has published dozens of articles on the legal regulation of political parties (Columbia Law Review, N.Y.U. Law Review, and Georgetown Law Journal), on issues surrounding the 2000 Census and redistricting process (Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and North Carolina Law Review), and on campaign finance reform (U. Pa. Law Review, Election Law Journal). Persily also is the recipient of the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching.