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@law.sc.edu
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Scholarship
Publications
"Redistricting in a Post-Shaw Era: A Small Treatise Accompanied by Distracting Guidelines for Legislators, Litigants, and Courts," 36 U. OF Rich. L.R. 137 (2002)
"Johnson v. DeSoto County: A Small Minority Group Experiences Difficulty When It Claims Dilution of its Voting Strength Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act," 31 Stet. L. Rev. 325 (2002)(Robert Fourier)
"A Functional Analysis of Potential Voting Rights Act Liability May Demonstrate that Intentional Creation of Black Remedial Districts Cannot be Justified," 79 N.C.L.R. 101 (2001)
"Equal Protection for Bush?," Legal Times 56 (Dec. 11, 2000)
"May a Court Adopt a Temporary 'Remedial' Election Plan that Mirrors the Very Plan it has Enjoined for not Following Voting Rights Act Requirements?" West Legal News (Oct. 7, 1996)
"Affirmative Racial Gerrymandering: Can Election Districts that were Created by Subordinating Standard Districting Criteria to Race ever Survive Strict Scrutiny?" West Legal News (Apr. 9, 1996)
"Affirmative Racial Gerrymandering: Rhetoric and Reality," 26 Cumb. L. Rev. 313 (1996)
"Race and Representation," Legal Times, Vol. XVIII; No. 33, 26 (Jan. 1, 1996)
"Affirmative Racial Gerrymandering: Fair Representation for Minorities or a Dangerous Recognition of Group Rights?," 26 Rut. L.J. 595 (Spring, 1995)
Conference Proceedings, The Supreme Court, Racial Politics and the Right to Vote, 44 Amer. L. Rev. 1 (1994).
Comments on the Role of Section 2 in State Redistricting, 6 La Raza L.J. 50 (1993).
"Judges on the Ballot: Whose Bench is it?" Legal Times, Vol. XIV, No. 24, 28-29 (Nov. 4, 1991).
Minority Vote Dilution Suits and the Problem of Two Minority Groups: Can a "Rainbow Coalition" Claim the Protection of the Voting Rights Act? (with R. Murray) 21 Pac. L.J. 619 (1990).
Testimony, Oversight Hearings on Proposed Regulations Governing Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, House Committee on the Judiciary, published by the Committee, 1986.
The Majority Vote Requirement: The Case Against Its Wholesale Elimination, 17 Urban Law 441 (1985).
"Voting Rights Under the Reagan Administration" (with Charles S. Bullock, III) in T. Yarborough (Ed.) Civil Rights Under the Reagan Administration (1985).
"Denial or Abridgment of the Right to Vote: What Does it Mean?" in Lorn S. Foster (Ed.), The Voting Rights Act, Consequences and Implications (1985).
"Reapportionment, the Courts, and the Voting Rights Act: A Resegregation of the Political Process?," 56 U. of Col. L. Rev. 1 (1984).
"Constitutional and Statutory Challenges to Election Structures: Dilution and the Value of the Right to Vote," 42 La. Law Rev. 851 (1982).
Presentations
Speaker (Respondent) North Carolina Law Review's Symposium, "Democracy in a New America" (Feb. 16, 2001)
Discussant, American Political Science Association, Panel on Racial Gerrymandering, September, 1995
"Comments on Shaw v. Hunt and Veva v. Bush," National Press Club Press Conference, sponsored by the Institute of Justice, Dec. 4, 1995.
"Affirmative Racial Gerrymandering - A Response to Professor Karlan;" Conference Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Sponsored by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Cumberland School of Law, Fall 1995.
"The Role of Race in Districting Decisions," National Voting Rights Symposium, Sponsored by the National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, Tn., Spring, 1995.
Panelist, "The Supreme Court, Racial Politics and the Right to Vote," Sponsored by American University, Fall, 1994.
"Reconciling Shaw v. Reno with the Voting Rights Act," Symposium on Shaw, Rutgers (Camden) Law School (October, 1993).
"The Role of Section 2 in Reapportionment," Symposium on the Voting Rights Act, Sponsored by LaRaza Law Review, University of California at Berkeley, March 1992.
"Reapportionment and the Voting Rights Act," Symposium for the Florida Legislature, Sponsored by The Collins Center for Public Policy, November, 1991.
"The Voting Rights Act: An Experiment in Group Rights," Conference on Constitutionalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, University of Virginia, June, 1991.
"The Voting Rights Act and Reapportionment in the 1990's," Annual Meeting of the Virginia Bar Association, Local Government Law Section, Virginia Beach, June, 1991.
"Section 2 and Judicial Elections: The Defense Perspective," Voting Rights and Reapportionment Symposium, Tulane and Stetson Law Schools, Clearwater, FL, April, 1991.
"Reapportionment and the Voting Rights Act," Midyear Meeting, South Carolina Bar Association, Government Law Section, 1991.
"Federal Vote Buying Statutes," South Carolina Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education Program, 1990.
"Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and Apportionment, 1990," Reapportionment in the 1990's, A Conference for Virginia Legislators, Center for Public Service, University of Virginia, 1989.
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