Richard Pildes is a visiting professor of law at Yale Law School, as well as the Sudler Family Professor Constitutional Law at New York University. A leading scholar of constitutional law and election law, his research focuses upon the legal framework of American government, politics, and elections. He has written on the powers of the President; the rise of political polarization; the Voting Rights Act and partisan and racial redistricting; campaign finance; the history of disenfranchisement; and constitutional doctrine and history more generally. Pildes is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Carnegie Scholar. He has taught at Harvard, Michigan, and Chicago, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and has argued before the Supreme Court.
