(0.5 General California MCLE)  50+ years after the end of Jim Crow, voting rights remains a hotly contested issue. Professor Issacharoff explains to guest host Suraj Patel the history of voter suppression and the Voting Rights Act, and breaks down the modern debate to its elements.

Samuel Issacharoff is the Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law.  His wide-ranging research deals with issues in civil procedure, law and economics, constitutional law, particularly with regard to voting rights and electoral systems, and employment law.  After law school, he served as a law clerk at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and then spent the early part of his career as a voting rights laws.  Professor Issacharoff is one of the pioneers in the law of political process and has co-authored a casebook and numerous publications on the subject.