Manoj M.

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ABOUT MANOJ M.

Manoj Mate is Professor of Law and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, and Director of the Jaeckle Center for Law, Democracy, and Governance at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His research centers on constitutional law, election law and democracy, comparative constitutional law, and law and society. Mate has held visiting faculty or fellowship appointments at the University of California, Irvine, the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and Harvard Law School, and has also held faculty appointments DePaul University and the University of Windsor where he was a Canada Research Chair.His academic writings have been published or are forthcoming in law reviews and journals including the Yale Journal of International Law, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, University of Chicago Legal Forum, William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Connecticut Law Review, Tulane Law Review, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Berkeley Journal of International Law, the Journal of Human Rights, and in peer-reviewed chapters in volumes published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Professor Mate has served as a Chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) Sections on Comparative Law and Law and South Asian Studies.Mate also has extensive experience working at the intersection of law and public policy and in advising government leaders, advisory boards, and reform initiatives and groups. He was appointed by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker as a member of the academic community on the Illinois Racial Profiling Prevention and Data Oversight Board, and previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor to San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro on health, energy, and sustainability policies. Prior joining the legal academy, he worked for the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at Berkeley on the 2006 Voting Rights Reauthorization Initiative.