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DEMOCRACY WEEK 2025 - Emerging Trends in Election Law: From Ballot Design to the Changing Federal Landscape

Date & Time

Friday, October 24, 2025, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Category

Location

Eagleton Institute of Politics, Drawing Room

191 Ryders Ln New Brunswick, NJ, 08901

Information

Join the Rutgers Democracy Lab at the Eagleton Institute of Politics for a conversation on changing election laws and administration with scholars, litigators, and practitioners leading efforts at the state and national level. Light breakfast and networking lunch will be included. 

Advance registration is required, register at: https://peshine.rutgers.edu/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=253 

Event flyer listing date and time

Panels will feature: 

Panel I:

  • Julia Sass Rubin, Ph.D., M.B.A ,Professor, Associate Dean of Academic Programs, Director, Public Policy Program at Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

  • Micauri Vargas, Esq., Litigation Counsel, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

  • Andrew Garber, Esq, Counsel, Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program

  • Robert Williams, Esq, Distinguished Professor of Law Emertius, Rutgers Law School

Panel II

  • Secretary Jeh Johnson, Former Secretary of Homeland Security and Co-chair of American Bar Association Task Force for American Democracy 

  • Antoinette Miles, State Director, New Jersey Working Families Party 

  • Brian Boyle, Chief Program Office & General Counsel, American Promise