Staff Attorney Election Law Center; Instructional Specialist Visiting

The Staff Attorney for the College of Law Election Law Center will be responsible for assisting with the Center’s legal and other research projects; engaging in legal research and drafting for amicus briefs; coding cases for databases; gathering, organizing, and summarizing primary sources for online dissemination; and preparing reports, presentations, training materials, and articles to distribute to academic, governmental, and public audiences.

College of Law

The Staff Attorney for the College of Law Election Law Center will be responsible for assisting with the Center’s legal and other research projects; engaging in legal research and drafting for amicus briefs; coding cases for databases; gathering, organizing, and summarizing primary sources for online dissemination; and preparing reports, presentations, training materials, and articles to distribute to academic, governmental, and public audiences.

This research will focus on election administration, as well as constitutional and statutory issues relating to the electoral process. Specific areas of research will depend in part on litigation that may arise in federal and state court. The staff attorney will also help prepare fifty-state surveys, for example concerning the differences among states’ laws governing provisional ballots and canvassing. The staff attorney will also assist with the preparation of caselaw databases concerning various issues such as Due Process challenges to election outcomes as well as remedies under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The staff attorney may also assist with the Center’s work concerning election emergencies, including gathering and reviewing the legislative history of existing laws in the field and preparation of a potential model statute. Finally, the staff attorney will also help with the Election Law Center’s ongoing project on federal and state election contests by locating, summarizing, and organizing relevant primary sources for eventual public access through an interactive website.

Additionally, the Staff Attorney will assist the Executive Director of the Election Law Center in cultivating and sustaining external and internal partnerships to advance the Center’s short-term and long-term goals.

A JD is required. Applicants with an undergraduate or graduate degree in political science, history, public administration, mathematics, statistics, or economics are preferred, but not required.

• Strong research and writing skills
• Ability to organize and synthesize large amounts of information
• A collaborative and solutions-focused mentality
• Non-partisan dedication to generating accurate research outcomes

Maureen Wagner Vinson
Executive Director of Election Law Center
Florida State University College of Law
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Anticipated salary range $100,000-negotiable, depending upon experience. This is a soft money-funded position, with renewal based on available funds and the needs of the College of Law and University.

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This is a Faculty position.

This position requires successful completion of a criminal history background check.

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