One of the nation’s leading experts on voting and the political process, Pamela S. Karlan is the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and founding co-director of the school’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. She has served as a commissioner on the California Fair Political Practices Commission, an assistant counsel and cooperating attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (where she received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service in 2015 – the department’s highest award for employee performance – as part of the team responsible for implementing the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor). Here, she discusses her research on the law governing the political process.