Guy-Uriel E. Charles

Russell M. and Elizabeth M. Bennett Professor of Law

Guy-Uriel E. Charles

N224 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-626-9154

gcharles@umn.edu

Spring Arbor University, B.A.
University of Michigan, J.D.

[For the Academic Year, Professor Charles will be a visiting professor at Duke Law School. charles@law.duke.edu, 919-613-7191]

Professor Guy-Uriel E. Charles became an interim Co-Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School on June 1, 2006, and with Fred Morrison, served for two years. He joined the Law School in the fall of 2000.  Professor Charles received his J.D. Degree from the University of Michigan Law School and clerked for The Honorable Damon J. Keith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. While at the University of Michigan, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law. From 1995-2000, he was a graduate student in political science at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the Law School, he taught as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toledo School of Law.

Professor Charles teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, civil procedure, election law, law and politics, and race. His articles have appeared in Constitutional Commentary, The Michigan Law Review, The Michigan Journal of Race and Law, The Georgetown Law Journal, The Journal of Politics, The California Law Review, The North Carolina Law Review, and others. He was the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year 2002-2003 at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Professor Charles was a member of the National Research Commission on Elections and Voting and the Century Foundation Working Group on Election Reform. He is the director of the Institute for Law & Politics, a Senior Fellow in Law and Politics at the Institute on Race and Poverty, and a Law School Faculty Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Political Psychology, University of Minnesota. He is a frequent television, print, and radio commentator on issues relating to constitutional law, election law, campaign finance, redistricting, politics, and race.

In the spring of 2006, Professor Charles was the James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

For papers by Professor Charles, please visit his SSRN homepage here.

PUBLICATIONS

Works in Progress

We the (Colored) People

Democracy & Distortion (forthcoming Cornell Law Review, 2007)

Race, Redistricting, and Representation (forthcoming Ohio State Law Journal)

Taking Citizenship Seriously (forthcoming Harvard Journal of Law & Gender)

Publications

On the Renewal of Section 5 of the VRA: Why Congress Failed Voters of Color, in Making Every Vote Count: Federal Election Legislation in the States (Andrew Rachlin ed.) (Princeton University 2006)

Rethinking Section 5, in The Future of the Voting Rights Act (Epstein, Pildes, de la Garza, O'Halloran eds.) (Russell Sage Foundation 2006) (with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer)

Preclearance, Discrimination, and the Department of Justice: The Case of South Carolina, 57 S. C. L. Rev. 827 (2006) (with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer) (symposium)

Regulating Section 527 Organizations, 73 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1000 (2005) (with Gregg Polsky)

Judging the Law of Politics, 103 Mich. L. Rev. 1099 (2005)

Colored Speech: Crossburnings, Epistemics, and the Triumph of the Crits?, 93 Geo. L. J. 575 (2005) (reprinted in First Amendment Handbook 2005-006 Edition, Dean Rodney Smolla, Editor)

In Defense of Deference, 21 Const. Comment. 133 (2004) (with Luis-Fuentes-Rohwer) (symposium)

Law, Politics, and Judicial Review, 31 J. Legis. 17 (2004)

Colorblindness from the Original Position, 78 Tul. L. Rev. 2009(2004) (symposium)

Congressional Representation of Black Interests: Recognizing the Importance of Stability (with Vincent Hutchings & Harwood McClerking) 66 J. of Pol. (2004)

Racial Identity and Political Association: Why the Racial Gerrymandering Cases Violate the Associational Rights of Voters of Color, 91 Cal. L. Rev. 1209 (2003) (received First Honorable Mention at the AALS Scholarly Papers Competition January 2003)

Mixing Metaphors: Voting, Dollars, and Campaign Finance Reform, 2 Elec. L.J. 271 (2003)

Constitutional Pluralism & Democratic Politics: Reflections on the Interpretive Approach of Baker v. Carr, 80 N.C. L. Rev. 1103 (2002)

The Electoral College, The Right to Vote and Our Federalism: A Comment on a Lasting Institution, (with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer) 29 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 879 (2001) (symposium)

Challenges to Racial Redistricting in the New Millennium: Hunt v. Cromartieas: a Case Study (with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer) 58 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 227 (2001)

Fourth Amendment Accommodations, (Un)Compelling Public Needs, and the Fiction of Consent, 2 Mich. J. of Race & L. 461 (1997)

Non-Academic Publications

Report of the National Research Commission on Elections and Voting (pdf) (contributor).

Balancing Access and Equity: New Recommendation for Election Reform in the States (pdf) (cntributor).

Should Single-Member Districts Be Held Unconstiutional, February 5, 2004, Findlaw.com

Why the Federal Election Commission Should Not Limit Contributions to Political Issue Organizations, April 27, 2004, Findlaw.com

COURSES

Courses

Civil Procedure
Constitutional Law
Election Law
Law & Race
Statuatory Interpretations