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MICHAEL KANG

2025

Accepted Articles

• Electoral Due Process, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 25-15, 120 Northwestern University Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2025).

2024

Articles

• Lawbreaking as Lawmaking, 3 University of Chicago Business Law Review 443 (2024).

Contributions to Books

• Party Polarization, in The Oxford Handbook of American Election Law 523 (Eugene D. Mazo ed. 2024).

2023

Books

• Free to Judge: The Power of Campaign Money in Judicial Elections (2023) (Co-authored by: Joanna M. Shepherd).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Campaign Cash and Judicial Outcomes, State Court Report (Aug. 14, 2023).

2022

Articles

• Rethinking the Government Speech Doctrine, Post-Trump, 2022 University of Illinois Law Review 1943 (Co-authored by: Jacob Eisler).

• The Post-Trump Rightward Lurch in Election Law, 74 Stanford Law Review Online 55 (2022).

Working Papers

• Trump’s Challenge to Constitutional State Speech, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-08, 2022 University of Illinois Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2022) (Co-authored by: Jacob Eisler).

2021

Articles

• Judicial Campaign Finance and Election Timing, 2021 Wisconsin Law Review 1487 (Co-authored by: Joanna Shepherd).

• Hyperpartisan Campaign Finance, 70 Emory Law Journal 1171 (2021).

2020

Articles

• Voting Rights from Judge Frank Johnson to Modern Hyperpolarization, 71 Alabama Law Review 793 (2020).

• Hyperpartisan Gerrymandering, 61 Boston College Law Review 1379 (2020).

Contributions to Books

• The Deregulation of Campaign Finance and the Hyperpolarization of Presidential Nominations in the Super PAC Era, in the Best Candidate: Presidential Nomination in Polarized Times 260 (Eugene Mazo & Michael Dimino eds. 2020).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Trump’s Campaign May Need Another Bush v. Gore. The Supreme Court Already Teed It Up., NBC News (Nov. 2, 2020).

• The 2020 Election Results Are Delayed, But There Is a Bright Side: Voting Wasn’t a Huge Problem, NBC News (Nov. 4, 2020).

• Donald Trump’s Legal Strategy Makes No Sense for Winning the Vote Count. So What Is He Doing?, NBC News (Nov. 15, 2020).

2019

Articles

• The Problem of Irresponsible Party Government, 119 Columbia Law Review Online 1 (Jan. 30, 2019).

2017

Articles

• Gerrymandering and the Norm Against Government Partisanship, 116 Michigan Law Review 351 (2017) selected as the Best Election Law Paper of 2017 by the AALS Section on Election Law.

2016

Articles

• The Long Shadow of Bush v. Gore, 68 Stanford Law Review 1411 (2016) (Co-authored by: Joanna Shepherd).

2012

Articles

• The End of Campaign Finance Law, 98 Virginia Law Review 1 (2012).

2011

Articles

• The Partisan Price of Justice: An Empirical Analysis of Campaign Contributions and Judicial Decisions, 86 New York University Law Review 69 (2011) (Co-authored by: Joanna M. Shepherd).

• Sore Loser Laws and Democratic Contestation, 99 Georgetown Law Journal 1013 (2011).

2010

Articles

• Voting as Veto, 108 Michigan Law Review 1221 (2010).

2008

Articles

• Race and Democratic Contestation, 117 Yale Law Journal 734 (2008).