Richard Pildes

Founding Faculty Director, The Democracy Project

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-author of “Electoral Reform in the United States: Reforms for Combatting polarization and extremism,” and editor of “The Future of the Voting Rights Act.”

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