Abbott v. Perez, Race, and the Immodesty of the Roberts Court
The Roberts Court’s election law jurisprudence is a puzzle to scholars of the Court. The conservative Justices purport to approach their task modestly, invoking...
Luis Fuentes-Rohwer is the Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where he teaches and writes in the areas of civil rights, legal history, and the constitutional history of Puerto Rico. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of race and democratic theory, as reflected in the law of democracy in general and the Voting Rights Act in particular. He is interested in the way that institutions—and especially courts—are asked to craft and implement the ground rules of American politics. He received a J.D. and a Ph.D from the University of Michigan and an LLM from Georgetown.