Katharine I. Butler
Professor of Law
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Contact Information
Room 407
USC School of Law
701 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
v 803-777-7763
f 803-777-2368
butlerki@gwm.sc.edu
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Profile
J.D. (1974) University of Tennessee
M.Ed. (1969) Mississippi State University
B.S. (1968) Mississippi State University
Katharine Inglis Butler has been a member of the South Carolina faculty since 1978. Professor Butler is a nationally recognized expert on the Voting Rights Act. She began her career in the Voting Section, Civil Rights Division, of the Department of Justice, the entity charged with enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. She has advised governing bodies at every level on compliance with the Act, and on redistricting issues. She also has served as an expert to the court in several recent voting rights/redistricting cases. Professor Butler's writing on voting rights and redistricting have appeared in books, law reviews, and in popular printed and electronic legal publications. Her most recent substantial publication, Redistricting in a Post-Shaw Era: A Treatise, with Districting Guidelines for Legislators, Litigants and Courts, appeared in the University of Richmond Law Review. She is working on a book on the impact of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act on geographically based representation. Since 1996, Professor Butler has divided her time between South Carolina and St. Louis, where she routinely has been a visiting professor or a scholar in residence for the spring semesters at the Washington University, St. Louis, School of Law. In addition to voting rights, Professor Butler teaches evidence and criminal law.
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