XAVIER-CONSTITUTION-DAY-PRESS-RELEASE

  Date:  4  Sept  2012     Contact:  Darleen  Frickman,  Frickman@xavier.edu     ƒ˜‹‡”‹˜‡”•‹–›ǯ•‘•–‹–—–‹‘ƒ›   Features  a  Discussion  of  Contested  Elections     CINCINNATI,  Sept  4  -­‐-­‐  On  Tuesday,  Sept  18  at  7  pm  ‹ƒ˜‹‡”‹˜‡”•‹–›ǯ•‡‡†›—†‹–‘”‹—ǡ Joshua  A  ‘—‰Žƒ•‘ˆ–Š‡‹˜‡”•‹–›‘ˆ‡–—…›™‹ŽŽ•’‡ƒ‘Dz‘–‡•–‡†Ž‡…–‹‘•Ǥdz     Twelve  years  after  Bush  v  Gore,  you  might  think  we  had  figured  out  the  best  way  to  resolve  a   †‹•’—–‡†‡Ž‡…–‹‘Ǥ‘—ǯ†„‡™”‘‰ǤLocally,  the  2010  race  for  Hamilton  County  Juvenile  Court   Judge  was  not  decided  until  April  2012  The  contest  between  Republican  John  Williams  and   Democrat  Tracie  Hunter  took  one  year,  five  months  and  25  days  from  the  date  voters  cast  their   ballots  to  resolve       Douglas  will  discuss  how  we  have  widely  varying  procedural  mechanisms  to  resolve  elections  that   go  into  overtime,  and  what  this  means  for  the  smooth  running  of  our  democracy       Constitution  Day  commemorates  September  17,  1787,  when  the  delegates  to  the  Constitutional   Convention  met  for  the  last  time  to  sign  the  document  they  had  created       This  free  lecture  is  open  –‘–Š‡’—„Ž‹…ƒ†•’‘•‘”‡†„›ƒ˜‹‡”ǯ•‡’ƒ”–‡–‘ˆ‹•–‘”›,   University  Scholars  Program,  Political  Science  Club  and  History  Club     Professor  Joshua  A  Douglas  joined  the  University  of  Kentucky  law  faculty  in  2010  He  teaches   Election  Law,  Civil  Procedure,  and  a  seminar  on  Supreme  Court  decision  making  His  research  focuses   on  election  law,  in  particular  vote  counting  rules  and  disputes,  judicial  interaction  with  the  election   process,  and  procedural  aspects  of  election  law  cases  He  earned  his  J.D  from  George  Washington   University  Law  School,  where  he  was  an  articles  editor  on  the  Law  Review  and  was  the  recipient  of   the  Imogen  Williford  Constitutional  Law  Award  for  excellence  in  Constitutional  Law  After  law  school,   he  clerked  for  the  Honorable  Edward  C  Prado,  U.S  Court  of  Appeals  for  the  Fifth  Circuit,  and  worked   at  the  law  firm  of  Akin,  Gump,  Strauss,  Hauer  &  Feld  in  their  litigation  office   -­‐30-­‐     Xavier  University  is  a  private  university  located  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  providing  a  liberal  arts  education  in  the   Jesuit   Catholic  tradition  Founded  in  1831,  the  University  is  the  sixth-­‐oldest  Catholic  university  in  the  nation    U.S  News  &  World   ‡’‘”–”ƒ•‹–‘Ǥͺƒ‘‰ƒ•–‡”ǯ•-­‐level  universities  in  the  Midwest,  and  The  Princeton  Review  names  it  as  one  of  the   Dz‡•–͹ͽ7  ‘ŽŽ‡‰‡•‹‡”‹…ƒǤdz