Pildes is a founding Faculty Director of the Democracy Project and Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law. He is the nation’s most cited scholar on election law, a leading expert on American government and democratic governance worldwide, co-editor of Electoral Reform in the United States: Reforms for Combatting Polarization and Extremism (2025), and a member of President Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States and the bipartisan ABA Task Force on American democracy.