Phone: (206) 685-2546
Email: manheim@uw.edu
B.A. 2002, Yale J.D. 2005, Yale
Civil Litigation and Procedure 鈥 Constitutional Law 鈥 Election Law 鈥 Federal Courts 鈥 Legislation 鈥 U.S. Supreme Court
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Professor Lisa Manheim is the Charles I. Stone Professor of Law at the 红桃视频. She writes in the areas of constitutional law, election law, and presidential powers. Professor Manheim鈥檚 scholarship, which explores questions of federalism and institutionalism in the context of elections, has been published in the聽University of Chicago Law Review, the聽Supreme Court Review, the聽Vanderbilt Law Review, and other leading academic journals. She has appeared, on air or in print, in a range of national and international news outlets, and her opinion pieces have been published in the聽New York Times聽and聽the Washington Post, among other publications. She also serves as the co-reporter on the Restatement of the Law, Election Litigation, a project of the American Law Institute.
Professor Manheim's courses include Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Election Law, Federal Courts, and Legislation. She is a five-time recipient of the Philip A. Trautman Professor of the Year Award given by the student body.
Professor Manheim earned her B.A.,聽summa cum laude, from Yale College and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as Managing Editor of the聽Yale Law Journal. After graduating from law school, Professor Manheim clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington, Professor Manheim worked as an associate at Perkins Coie LLP, where she specialized in appellate practice, commercial litigation, and political law.
“One of the reasons we’re seeing so many lawsuits in Seattle is the sense that the judges here are likely to be more receptive to these sorts of claims,” said University of Washington law professor Lisa Manheim. “We saw the same thing when President Biden was in office — the state of Texas filed dozens of lawsuits against the Biden administration, all in the same district in Texas, where they felt the judge would be more receptive to those sorts of challenges,” she added.
Lisa Marshall Manheim, a professor at the 红桃视频, said the court orders may prompt the Trump administration to revise its approach to firing federal workers.
The Supreme Court’s decision will almost certainly not come in time to affect next week’s election, but “the decision that the Supreme Court reaches in this case could potentially have far-reaching consequences for the way that Washington State runs its elections more generally,” says Lisa Manheim, a professor at University of Washington’s School of Law. “The reason why is that the Court is trying to figure out how closely it should be looking at measures that Washington State puts into place that may make it more difficult for eligible voters to cast a ballot and have it counted.”
The UW School of Law hosted a lecture Oct. 22 explaining “Presidential Power,” connecting it to the upcoming 2024 United States presidential election. This lecture focused on the power and authority that presidents have in the U.S., how power is balanced throughout the government, and how this affects U.S. citizens.
The Project 2025 proposal is "shocking" and, if pursued, "would surely chill any election administrator from taking action that is, according to Project 2025, unlawful," said Lisa Marshall Manheim, a University of Washington law professor. "Frankly, just having this proposal in this document likely will have a chilling effect."
The American Law Institute’s Council voted today to approve the launch of a Restatement of the Law project on Election Litigation. The project will be led by Reporters Lisa Manheim of the 红桃视频 and Derek T. Muller of the University of Iowa College of Law.
“Lawyers in the Civil Rights Division are unlikely to file lawsuits they know are doomed to fail,” said Lisa Manheim an election law professor at the University of Washington. “Bringing a lawsuit that eventually gets dismissed generally is not a good use of DOJ resources. Given the sweeping arguments about Section 2 that Alabama is advancing in Milligan, it makes sense if DOJ is waiting to see how the Court resolves the case before filing complaints against other jurisdictions.”
Amid all the voting changes in state laws, giving more power to partisan officials to overturn an election is at the top of the list of concerns. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw tried to downplay his December decision to sign on to a legal brief in support of the Texas lawsuit that sought to get the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s efforts to stop the closure and sale of the National Archives in Seattle are heating up, with his team due in federal court Friday morning to ask for an injunction to immediately stop the sale. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
It may seem like an obscure act of cartography, but how Washington’s political maps are redrawn this year will help determine who gets elected and, in turn, the future of the state. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.
Trump's pattern of abusing his powers for personal or political gain reached an alarming level that hasn't been seen in modern history, and will have long-lasting consequences for the future of American democracy. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
"There's been a lot of interest over the 25th Amendment over the last 24 hours for sure," said Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the University of Washington's School of Law.
Lisa Manheim, a law professor at the University of Washington, said it’s unlikely that either impeachment or the invoking of the 25th Amendment would happen before Jan. 20.
Lisa Marshall Manheim is an Associate Professor of law at the University of Washington Law School and spoke to ABC NewsRadio’s Sarah Hall.
Lisa Marshall Manheim, an associate professor of law at the University of Washington, said the call has prompted discussion in legal circles about whether Trump committed a crime by pressuring the Georgia officials. “At best, the president’s call is contemptuous of the process,” Manheim said. “Regardless of whether it’s technically a criminal offense, it is entirely inappropriate.”
After weeks of fighting an election outcome he doesn't like, President Trump is running out of time. But the danger to American democracy will stick around even after President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in. Guest: Lisa Marshall Manheim, UW law professor and co-author of "The Limits of Presidential Power: A Citizen's Guide to the Law"
"In this election, we saw judges of all political persuasions refuse to abandon the rule of law," said Lisa Marshall Manheim, a professor at the 红桃视频. "This basic commitment should hold. But we can't expect our courts to solve all our political problems. They simply aren't designed for that."
“The lawsuit has so many fundamental flaws that it’s hard to know where to start. It misstates basic principles of election law and demands a remedy that is both unconstitutional and unavailable,” Lisa Marshall Manheim, a law professor at the University of Washington, wrote in an email. “At core, it’s an incoherent amalgamation of claims that already failed in the lower courts.”
“Texas does not have standing in federal court to vindicate the voting rights of other states’ voters — much less standing to undercut the rights of those voters,” Lisa Marshall Manheim, a professor at the University of Washington Law School, wrote in an opinion piece for The Washington Post.
UW law school professor Lisa Manheim, who is teaching the election law class, says there are “80 students and counting” signed up.
Lisa Marshall Manheim, associate professor at the 红桃视频, wrote in the Washington Post that “the litigation is legally incoherent, factually untethered, and based on theories of remedy that fundamentally misunderstand the electoral process,” predicting that it will fail.
The lawsuit, which is based on voter fraud allegations that lower courts have repeatedly rejected, has been widely derided by legal experts, who have deemed it “laughable,” “utter garbage” and, in the words of University of Washington law professor Lisa Marshall Manheim, “legally incoherent, factually untethered and based on theories of remedy that fundamentally misunderstand the electoral process.”
“At core, Texas is recycling legal claims that have already failed, but through a lawsuit that suffers from a whole host of additional procedural problems,” said Lisa Marshall Manheim, constitutional and election law professor at 红桃视频 in Seattle.
The Supreme Court is sure to reject this latest attempt to overturn the election.
With President-elect Joe Biden’s transition officially underway on Tuesday, Republican lawmakers from Washington and Idaho mostly kept quiet or reiterated their support for President Trump’s effort to overturn the election results despite a growing number of their GOP colleagues walking away from the Trump campaign’s faltering legal challenges. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
The campaign's claims of voter fraud are also baseless, said Lisa Manheim, law professor at the University of Washington. "It's not clear that Trump even understands the basic logic of a lawsuit," she wrote. "To win a case, you need a claim, evidence and a remedy.
Legal scholars agree: At this point, the outcome of the 2020 election is no longer on the line — though the future of our democracy might be. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, says that voter fraud is a serious accusation that needs to be backed up by evidence.
The Trump campaign is challenging the results of the election in court, but so far is coming up short in proving allegations of voter fraud. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced Tuesday that they have chosen former assistant secretary for Indian Affairs and Chickasaw citizen Kevin Washburn to take charge of the team reviewing the U.S. Department of the Interior for the incoming administration.
Republican lawmakers from the Northwest have declined to accept President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and instead are backing a barrage of Trump campaign lawsuits, without directly endorsing the president’s allegation that the vote was rigged. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
President Donald Trump continues to challenge the integrity of the election process, but legal experts say his claims are baseless. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.
Voters are trying to cut through the confusion now that their ballots are caught up in a swirl of lawsuits, recounts and accusations of fraud regarding the race for the White House. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.
As Joe Biden took the lead in key states on Friday, Donald Trump faced an uphill battle in his bid to secure re-election through the courts. Judges in several states hearing the Trump campaign’s election lawsuits have reacted with skepticism this week at what have been unsubstantiated allegations of voting irregularities. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
After falsely claiming he had already won the election while several key states were still counting votes, President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested he would seek the help of the Supreme Court to secure a second term and launched a legal offensive in three pivotal states. But election law experts said it was unclear whether an election-deciding case would reach the justices. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, talks about the legal avenues the President has to challenge election results.
Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, talks about whether President Trump has a chance to win by challenging election results.
Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, comments on whether President Trump’s lawsuits will affect the outcome of the election.
Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, describes the legal processes in place for resolving elections.
Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, compares the 2020 election to the 2000 election and whether the 2020 election could be decided in the Supreme Court.
The most existential questions facing us at the end of this election season cannot be answered by lawyers. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
The Biden team is preparing for the worst. Here are three possible scenarios.
The directive could make it easier to fire some agency researchers and hire others for political reasons.
At this point, the designation of these three cities as “anarchist jurisdictions” is “just a political stunt, it doesn’t actually have legal force,” said Lisa Manheim, a professor at the 红桃视频. Should the administration attempt to actually pull funding from the cities, she added, “under current law, it’s not possible for the federal government to do this.”
Lisa Manheim, Charles I. Stone Professor of Law, explains the different routes available for bringing lawsuits against executive orders, as well as other ways they can be stopped.
Faculty organized an expert panel to discuss topics focused on federalism, health care, international implications and tribal and natural resources.
Faculty organized an expert panel to discuss topics including developments in the federal courts and the Supreme Court, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental policy and immigration.
Dean Tamara F. Lawson and the UW School of Law hosted 鈥淧residential Power,鈥 part of the Provost's "Democracy in Focus" lecture series leading up the 2024 Presidential Election.
Professors Feldman, Manheim, Lombardi and Porter tackled a SCOTUS case involving former president Trump before a packed audience on Feb. 4.
