Nathaniel Persily, James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. His work and expertise focus on the law of democracy, addressing issues such as voting rights, political parties, campaign finance and redistricting. A sought-after nonpartisan voice in voting rights, he has served as a court-appointed expert to draw legislative districting plans for Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, and New York and as special master for the redistricting of Connecticut’s congressional districts. Other areas of scholarly interest concern American public opinion toward various constitutional controversies.

Persily designed the Constitutional Attitudes Survey, a national public opinion poll executed in both 2009 and 2010. The survey includes an array of questions concerning attitudes toward the Supreme Court, constitutional interpretation and specific constitutional controversies. He also served on the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a bipartisan commission created by President Obama to deal with the long lines at the polling place and other administrative problems witnessed in the 2012 election.