Keynote Address: What Election Law Has to Say to Constitutional Law

This Address briefly reexamines the relationship between election law and constitutional law. For those unfamiliar with the history of this relationship, 44 Indiana Law Review 7 (2010)allow me to offer a tongue-in-cheek sketch. Election law is a young field. It was not formally declared its own field of study until 1999, though its roots date back earlier. While there were a handful of scholars writing systematically about the subject before 1990, the field came into its own during the early 1990s as a group of dynamic young scholars entered the field and made a name for themselves