Authors

Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law
,
The University of Southern California Gould School of Law

Franita Tolson

Franita Tolson is Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the areas of election law, constitutional law, legal history, and employment discrimination. She has written on a wide range of topics including partisan gerrymandering, political parties, the Elections Clause, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Tolson is one of the coauthors of the leading election law casebook, "The Law of Democracy" (Foundation Press, 6th ed., 2022). Her forthcoming book, "In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era," will be published by Cambridge University Press.

Authors

Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law
,
The University of Southern California Gould School of Law

Franita Tolson

Franita Tolson is Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the areas of election law, constitutional law, legal history, and employment discrimination. She has written on a wide range of topics including partisan gerrymandering, political parties, the Elections Clause, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Tolson is one of the coauthors of the leading election law casebook, "The Law of Democracy" (Foundation Press, 6th ed., 2022). Her forthcoming book, "In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era," will be published by Cambridge University Press.

Authors

Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law
,
The University of Southern California Gould School of Law

Franita Tolson

Franita Tolson is Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the areas of election law, constitutional law, legal history, and employment discrimination. She has written on a wide range of topics including partisan gerrymandering, political parties, the Elections Clause, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Tolson is one of the coauthors of the leading election law casebook, "The Law of Democracy" (Foundation Press, 6th ed., 2022). Her forthcoming book, "In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era," will be published by Cambridge University Press.

Authors

Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law
,
The University of Southern California Gould School of Law

Franita Tolson

Franita Tolson is Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the areas of election law, constitutional law, legal history, and employment discrimination. She has written on a wide range of topics including partisan gerrymandering, political parties, the Elections Clause, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Tolson is one of the coauthors of the leading election law casebook, "The Law of Democracy" (Foundation Press, 6th ed., 2022). Her forthcoming book, "In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era," will be published by Cambridge University Press.