Events

The State Democracy Research Initiative and the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison invite you to join us for an Election Matters 2026 Panel, “The Battle Over Mid-Decade Redistricting,” sponsored by Stafford Rosenbaum LLP.

The State Democracy Research Initiative and the UW GovLaw Society invite you to join us for this panel, which will discuss how our federalist system creates space for and seeks to manage confrontations between states and the federal government.

The State Democracy Research Initiative invites you to join us for “Public Law in the States: The Work of State Supreme Courts” on Friday, May 29, from 9:00-10:30am Central Time.

This annual panel, part of the Elections Matters series, will review major democracy-related rulings from the past year at both the state and federal levels. Panelists will include Special Counsel Amit Agarwal of Protect Democracy, Chief Counsel Christina Bull Arndt of the California Department of Justice, Attorney Julie Murray of the ACLU State Supreme Court Initiative, and former U.S. Solicitor General Don Verrilli.

Join us on November 12th, 2026, for a talk with Professor Judith Resnik of Yale Law School about her new book, "Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy."