Letter from Lani Guinier to Jack Greenberg RE resume

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September 17, 1984

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Lesar@renseH.
September L2, 1984

Professor Jack Greenberg
Columbia Law School
435 West 116th Street
New York, N. Y. 10027

Dear Jack:

At your suggestion, I enclose a copy of my resume. I also
enclose a chapter I recently co-authored with Drew Days on
the Voting Rights Act, published by Howard University Press
in Ivlinority Vote Ditution (C. Davidson ed. 1984).

I am interested in teaching a voting rights seminar in the
Spring Semester. Possible topics include:

1. OVERVIEW: the meaning of representative
government, the j-ssue of proportional
representation and the role of the judiciary
in the "political thicket'

2. the one person one vote standard, its evolu-
tion and present application to state and
congressional reapportionment

3. racial discrimination and the political process

a. history from pre-Civil War through
post-Reconstruction

b. court challenges under the 14th and
I5th Amendments

c. federal legislation and the role of
the federal government

d. the Voting Rights Act of 1965

(1) Section 5 preclearance and
administrative enforcement

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(3) Section 2 and the private right
of action

4. L982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act -- the leg-
islative Process

5. recent issues in voting rights law

a. at-Iarge elections
b. majority vote rrun-off requirements
c. registration barriers
d. bail-out
e. remedies

I would appreciate your corunents or suggestions of additional
issues.

Sincerely,

Lani Guinier

LG/ r
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