Franita Tolson

USC Gould School of Law

699 Exposition Blvd

Los Angeles, CA California 90089

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (19)

1.

Partisan Gerrymandering as a Safeguard of Federalism

2010 Utah Law Review 859 (2010), FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 470
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2012
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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Partisan Gerrymandering, Federalism

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The 'Independent' State Legislature in Republican Theory

USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS22-38, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 22-38, 10 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 549 (2023)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 30 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2023
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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Reinventing Sovereignty?: Federalism as a Constraint on the Voting Rights Act

65 Vanderbilt Law Review 1195 (2012), FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 530
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 23 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2012
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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federalism, constitutional law, the Voting Rights Act, the Elections Clause

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'In Whom is the Right of Suffrage?': The Reconstruction Acts as Sources of Constitutional Meaning

169 University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming, USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS 21-39, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 21-39
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2021
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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The Constitutional Structure of Voting Rights Enforcement

89 Washington Law Review 379 (2014) , American Political Science Association 2013 Annual Meeting, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 690
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2014
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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The Spectrum of Congressional Authority Over Elections

99 Boston University Law Review 317 (2019)
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 19 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2019
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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The Boundaries of Litigating Unconscious Discrimination: Firm-Based Remedies in Response to a Hostile Judiciary

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Vol. 33, No. 2, p. 347, 2008, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 353
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 26 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2009
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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unconscious discrimination, Title VII, Delaware, diversity, duty of care, Wal-Mart, corporate norms

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What is Abridgment?: A Critique of Two Section Twos

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 67, No. 2, 2016, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 767
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2016
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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Fourteenth Amendment, Voting Rights Act, Intentional Discrimination

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Protecting Political Participation Through the Voter Qualifications Clause of Article I

56 B.C. L. Rev. 159 (2015), FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 706
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 26 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2015
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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Election Law 'Federalism' and the Limits of the Antidiscrimination Framework

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 59, 2018
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 03 Apr 2018
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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Elections Clause, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment, federalism, voting rights

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Countering the Real Countermajoritarian Difficulty

California Law Review, Vol. 109, No. 2382, 2021
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Feb 2022
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
Downloads 148 (393,762)

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Election Law, voting rights, U.S. Constitution, Dorr's Rebellion, Countermajoritarian Difficulty

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Congressional Authority to Protect Voting Rights after Shelby County and Arizona Inter Tribal

Election Law Journal, Vol. 13, 2014, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 673
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 15 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 14 May 2016
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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voting rights, elections, voter qualifications, Voting Rights Act, Elections Clause

13.

Benign Partisanship

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 88, No. 395, 2012
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 10 Jan 2013
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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partisan gerrymandering, federalism

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Increasing the Quantity and the Quality of the African-American Vote: Lessons for 2008 and Beyond

Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy, Vol. 10, p. 313, 2008, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 354
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 14 May 2016
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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voting rights, Section 2, majority-minority districts, presidential election, voter identification laws

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The Federalism Implications of Campaign Finance Regulation

University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, Vol. 164 (2016), FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 820
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 12 Oct 2016
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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federalism, campaign finance, direct democracy

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The Union as a Safeguard Against Faction: Congressional Gridlock as State Empowerment

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 88, p. 2267, 2013, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 686
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Feb 2014
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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federalism, Congress, states, gridlock, immigration reform

17.

Enforcing the Political Constitution

74 Stan. L. Rev. Online 88 (2022) , USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS22-11, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 22-11
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2022
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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The Elections Clause and the Underenforcement of Federal Law

Yale Law Journal Forum, Vol. 129, No. 171, 2019
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 Aug 2021
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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Second-Order Diverse in Name Only?: Sovereign Authority in Disaggregated Institutions

Tulsa Law Review, Vol. 48, p. 455, 2013, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 665
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2014
Franita Tolson
USC Gould School of Law
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diversity, elections, dissent, sovereignty, autonomy, federalism