STEVEN F. HUEFNER Alumni Society Designated Professor of Law Director of Clinical Programs & Legislation Clinic Director Senior Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law 55 West 12 th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 614-292-1763 huefner.4@osu.edu PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: The Moritz College of Law Alumni Society Designated Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, August 2014-present. Director of Clinical Programs, The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, May 2008-present. Democracy Studies Program Co-Director, The Ohio State University, June 2014-present Legislation Clinic Director, The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, August 2000-present. Senior Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz, The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, August 2004-present. Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, August 2009-August 2014. Associate Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, August 2004-August 2009. Assistant Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, August 2000-August 2004. Assistant Senate Legal Counsel, Office of Senate Legal Counsel, United States Senate, 1995-2000. Judicial Clerk, Judge David S. Tatel, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1994-1995. Associate, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.,1992-1994. Judicial Clerk, Justice Christine M. Durham, Supreme Court of Utah, 1991-1992. Summer Associate, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., summer 1990. Summer Associate, Matsuo & Kosugi, Tokyo, Japan, summer 1989. Math & Asian History Teacher, The Waterford School, Provo, Utah, 1986-1988. Teaching Fellow, Mathematics Department, Harvard University, 1984-1986.
STEVEN F. HUEFNER 2 EDUCATION: Columbia University School of Law, New York City, 1988-1991. $ J.D., 1991. $ Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar (for academic achievement), all three years. $ Columbia Law Review, Articles & Book Reviews Editor. $ 1991 Recipient of the E.B. Convers Prize (Best Original Essay on a Legal Subject) for the paper AParfit=s Claims About Personal Identity: Blurring Law=s Lines Between Self and Other, Public and Private.@ $ Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship in Japanese Studies, 1989-1990, for the study of Japanese law and language. Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980-1982, 1984-1986. $ A.B. magna cum laude, 1986, Philosophy and Government. $ Honors Thesis, distinguished magna cum laude: AThe Importance of Derek Parfit=s Notions of Personal Identity to John Rawls= A Theory of Justice.@ $ Harvard College Scholar (for academic achievement), all four years. $ National Merit Scholar. $ Varsity Heavyweight Crew, 1981-1982, 1984-1986. BOOKS & Steven F. Huefner, LEGISLATION AND REGULATION IN A NUTSHELL (West Academic ARTICLES: Publishing 2017). Steven F. Huefner & Edward B. Foley,The Judicialization of Politics: The Challenge of the ALI Principles of Election Law Project, 79 Brooklyn Law Review 551 (2014). Steven F. Huefner, Lessons from Improvements in Military and Overseas Voting, 47 University of Richmond Law Review 833 (2013). Steven F. Huefner, A Champion of State Constitutions, 75 Albany Law Review 1673 (2011/2012) (Tribute to Chief Justice Christine M. Durham). Steven F. Huefner, Nathan A. Cemenska, Daniel P. Tokaji, & Edward B. Foley, FROM REGISTRATION TO RECOUNTS REVISITED: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ELECTION ECOSYSTEMS OF FIVE MIDWESTERN STATES ( 2011). Steven F. Huefner, What Can The United States Learn From Abroad About Resolving Disputed Elections?, 13 NYU Journal of Legislation & Public Policy 523 (2010). Steven F. Huefner, Don t Just Make Redistricters More Accountable to the People, Make Them the People, 5 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy 36 (2010). Steven F. Huefner, Just How Settled Are the Legal Principles that Control Election Disputes? (book review), 8 Election Law Journal 233 (2009). Steven F. Huefner, Congressional Searches and Seizures: The Place of Legislative Privilege, 24 Journal of Law & Politics 271 (2009). Steven F. Huefner, Remedying Election Wrongs, 44 Harvard Journal on Legislation 265 (2007).
STEVEN F. HUEFNER 3 BOOKS & Steven F. Huefner, Daniel P. Tokaji, & Edward B. Foley, FROM REGISTRATION TO ARTICLES RECOUNTS: THE ELECTION ECOSYSTEMS OF FIVE MIDWESTERN STATES (2007). (continued): Steven F. Huefner & Daniel P. Tokaji, Independent Election Administration: Who Counts the Votes? Who Draws the Lines?, 5 Election Law Journal 410 (2006) (symposium introduction). Steven F. Huefner, Term Limits in State Legislative Elections: Less Value for More Money?, 79 Indiana Law Journal 427 (2004). Steven F. Huefner, The Neglected Value of the Legislative Privilege in State Legislatures, 45 William and Mary Law Review 221 (2003). Steven F. Huefner, Reservations About Retribution in Secular Society, 2003 Brigham Young University Law Review 973. Steven F. Huefner, The Supreme Court=s Avoidance of the Nondelegation Doctrine in Clinton v. City of New York: More Than a Dime s Worth of Difference, 49 Catholic University Law Review 337 (2000). Dixie S. Huefner & Steven F. Huefner, Publicly Financed Interpreter Services for Parochial School Students with IDEA-B Disabilities, 21 Journal of Law and Education 223 (1992). Steven F. Huefner, Public Aid for Handicapped and Educationally Deprived Students: The Establishment Clause as Antiremedy, 73 Phi Delta Kappan 72 (1991), reprinted in Educating Exceptional Children 192 (7 th ed. 1994). Steven F. Huefner, Note, Affirmative Duties in the Public Schools After DeShaney, 90 Columbia Law Review 1940 (1990). COMMENTARIES Why the Ohio Early Voting Case Is Not a Threat to Military Voting & WEB Accommodations, 74 Ohio State Law Journal Furthermore 1, PUBLICATIONS: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/students/groups/oslj/furthermore/ (2013). More Planning Needed to Prepare for 08 Election, ROLL CALL Guest Observer op-ed column, 12/13/07 (with Edward B. Foley and Daniel P. Tokaji). Frequent contributor of opinion and analysis to the Election Law @ Moritz website, http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw, including the following Commentary: $ The Perils of Allowing Absentee Ballot Harvesting (11/4/2016). $ When Should Early Voting Begin? Lessons from the Current State of Distress over the Trump Campaign (10/8/2016). $ Resolving an Election in Extra Innings (10/25/2012). $ OFA v. Husted: Understanding Today s Decision (8/31/2012). $ The Potential Election Administration Challenges of Super Tuesday 2008 (2/5/08).
STEVEN F. HUEFNER 4 COMMENTARIES $ Quality of Election Administration Varies Among Great Lake States (11/27/07) & WEB (with Edward B. Foley and Daniel P. Tokaji). PUBLICATIONS (continued): $ Purcell's Implications on Pre-Election Litigation (10/24/06). $ Echoes of Bush v. Gore: Courts Are Not Always the Right Forum for Election Contests (1/10/06). $ Redistricting, Electoral Competition, and Citizen Control (10/25/05). $The Work Ahead (4/26/05). $ Independent Election Administration (2/15/05). $ Reforming the Timetable for the Electoral College Process (11/30/04). $ Partisan Gerrymandering and the Impoverishment of Politics (8/31/04). ENCYCLOPEDIA Steven F. Huefner, Legislative Veto, in David Schultz, ed., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ENTRIES: UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. NY: Facts on File, Inc. (2009). Steven F. Huefner, Speech or Debate Clause, in David Schultz, ed., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. NY: Facts on File, Inc. (2009). FUNDED RESEARCH: From Registration to Recounts Revisited: Developments in the Election Ecosystems of Five Midwestern States, an Election Law @ Moritz collaborative research project funded by a $63,000 grant from the Joyce Foundation, July 2009 - July 2011 (principal investigator). The Resolution of Disputed Election Results: Recounts, Contests, and Other Remedies, funded by a $175,000 grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation (co-investigator with Moritz Law Professor Edward B. Ned Foley). From Registration to Recounts: The Election Ecosystems of Five Key Midwestern States, an Election Law @ Moritz collaborative research project funded by a $250,000 grant from the Joyce Foundation, Aug. 2006 - Nov. 2007 (principal investigator). PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, & APPEARANCES: The Protections of Individual Liberty under the Ohio Constitution, panel discussion sponsored by the Moritz chapter of The Federalist Society, Moritz College of Law, Columbus, OH, March 7, 2017 (moderator). The Place of Legislative Privilege, presentation to the Legislative and Executive Branch Committee of the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission, Columbus, OH, Nov. 10, 2016. Election Eve Update, presentation to the OSU Politics, Society, and Law (PSL) sponsored Election Evening poll-watching event, Ohio Union, Columbus, OH, Nov. 8, 2016.
STEVEN F. HUEFNER 5 PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS & APPEARANCES (continued): Election 2016: Hacking and Other Problems, Election Day panel discussion sponsored by Election Law @ Moritz, Columbus, OH, Nov. 8, 2016 (moderator). Voting in 2016," presentation at a Dinner and Dialogue event of the OSU Honors and Scholars Programming Board, Khun Honors and Scholars House, Columbus, OH, Oct. 27, 2016. Trinity Lutheran Church v. Pauley, Supreme Court Roundtable, Moritz College of Law, Columbus, OH, Oct. 17, 2016. Voting Rights: Absentee and Early Voting, presentation at Kentucky Law Journal 2016 Symposium An Elective Perspective: Judicial Regulation of Politics in an Election Year, Lexington, KY, March 25, 2016. A Conversation on Civility, Leadership Upper Arlington annual leadership panel, Columbus, OH, March 3, 2016. Separation of Powers, Ohio Judicial Conference panel, Columbus, OH, Sept. 3, 2015 (moderator). Election Law Stories, respondent to chapter drafts for forthcoming book presented at roundtable conference, Columbus, OH, June 5, 2015. State Constitutions in the Federal System, closing remarks, Ohio State Law Journal symposium, Columbus, OH, Mar. 6, 2015. Supreme Court Roundtable, panel discussion at Moritz College of Law, Columbus, OH, Oct. 20, 2014. Breaking Down Voting Barriers, roundtable discussion at the 2014 Overseas Vote Foundation/U.S. Vote Foundation Annual Summit, Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 2014. The Future of Election Reform (in light of the 2012 elections), presentation at The American Law Institute Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 19, 2013. Proposals in Progress, panel at Brooklyn Law Review Symposium Restatement Of... (about the work of the American Law Institute), Brooklyn, NY, Jan. 25, 2013. Redistricting in Ohio: A Debate on Potential Benefits and Pitfalls, panel discussion co-sponsored by WilmerHale and the Dayton Bar Association, Dayton, OH, Oct. 10, 2012 (moderator). Get Out the Vote?, panel at Univ. of Richmond Law Review 2012 Allen Chair Symposium Beyond the Red, Purple, and Blue, Richmond, VA, Oct. 5, 2012. Key Topics in Election Law, panel at Colorado Judicial Conference, Vail, CO, Sept. 11, 2012. Progress of Election Law Under Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, panel discussion at the Moritz College of Law, Sept. 28, 2010.
STEVEN F. HUEFNER 6 PAPERS, Legislative Privilege and Immunity, panel at National Conference of State PRESENTATIONS, Legislatures 2010 Legislative Summit, Lexington, KY, July 27, 2010. & APPEARANCES (continued): Voting by Military and Overseas Americans, panel at National Conference of State Legislatures 2010 Legislative Summit, Lexington, KY, July 25, 2010. Reform of the Election Administration System, panel at NYU JOURNAL OF LEGISLATION & PUBLIC POLICY symposium on Helping America Vote: The Past, Present, and Future of Election Administration, NYC, Apr. 1, 2010. Is There a Way to Design an Apolitical Redistricting Process?, panel at Duke JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & PUBLIC POLICY symposium Drawing Lines: The Future of Redistricting in America, Durham, NC, Feb. 26, 2010. What Can the United States Learn From Abroad About Resolving Disputed Elections?, presentation to J. Reuben Clark Law Society meeting at AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 6, 2010. 2008 Election Post-Mortem, panel at AALS Annual Meeting, San Diego, Calif., Jan. 10, 2009 (moderator and panel organizer). When Disaster Strikes: The Continuity of Our Elections, panel hosted by the AEI/Brookings Election Reform Project, Washington, D.C., Oct. 23, 2008. Improving Wisconsin s Election Administration System, discussion sponsored by Wisconsin League of Women Voters, Milwaukee, WI, May 21, 2008. Current Controversies in Election Law, presentation to Marshall University chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, Huntington, WV, Apr. 22, 2008. From Registration to Recounts, AEI/Brookings Election Reform Project Presentation, Washington, D.C., Dec. 4, 2007. From Registration to Recounts, presentation to Electionline.org Midwest conference, Chicago, IL, Dec. 3, 2007. Roundtable panelist and presenter at Election Law @ Moritz Democracy Index Conference, September 2007. HAVA Issues & Problems: Thoughts About Post-Election Litigation, presentation to the Winter Conference of the Ohio Association of Election Officials, Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 24, 2007. Developments in Election Law, community presentation, Worthington United Methodist Church, Worthington, Ohio, Oct. 17, 2006. Reconciling Values: Equality and Competition, panel at Election Law @ Moritz 2006 symposium on Election Law and the Roberts Court, Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 30, 2006 (moderator). Pressure at the Polls/Ballot Initiatives, panel at Capitolbeat 2006 conference, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 5, 2006 (moderator).
STEVEN F. HUEFNER 7 PAPERS, Guest appearance on WOSU s Open Line with Fred Andrle, Jan. 13, 2006, PRESENTATIONS, discussing confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. & APPEARANCES (continued): Understanding Issues 2, 3, 4, and 5, panel discussion of the Reform Ohio Now 2005 ballot initiatives at the Moritz College of Law, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 1, 2005. The Increasing Role of the Judiciary in Elections, Judges Day panel presentation, the Moritz College of Law, Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 27, 2005. Guest appearances on WOSU s Open Line with Fred Andrle, Nov. 2, 2004, and Nov. 5, 2004, discussing voting procedures and election administration matters. The Legacy of Election 2000: If the System Fails Again?, panel discussion at the Moritz College of Law, Oct. 21, 2004, Columbus, Ohio, archived webcast available at http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/webcast/archive.html. Guest appearance on Ohio News Network s Capitol Square, Aug. 22, 2004, discussing proposed state constitutional amendment to require legislative supermajority for tax increases. The California Recall Election: Legal Issues and Implications, panel discussion at the Moritz College of Law, Sept. 24, 2003, Columbus, Ohio, archived webcast available at http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/webcast/archive.html. Missing Terror Clues?, guest appearance on Ohio=s Talking, a production of Ohio News Network, May 2002, discussing Congress=s oversight of government efforts to detect terrorist threats. Term Limits and Campaign Costs, presentation at Moritz College of Law Legislation Clinic Conference Early Returns on Legislative Term Limits. Term Limits and Campaign Costs in State Legislative Elections, presentation at Moritz College of Law Center for Law, Policy, and Social Science faculty workshop series, Columbus, Ohio, February 2002. Response to The Criminal Sanction and LDS Thought, response to paper presented by Professor Martin Gardner at LDS Perspectives on Law Symposium, held at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 2001. Reflections on DeRolph v. State, panel discussion at luncheon sponsored by The Federalist Society, Columbus Lawyers Chapter, Columbus, Ohio, October 2001. Presidential Election 2000, panel discussion of the resolution of the Florida presidential vote at the Moritz College of Law, Columbus, Ohio, November 2000. Developments in Legislation Education, presentation to participants in the Legislative Perspectives Continuing Legal Education Seminar, sponsored by the Ohio Legislative Services Commission, Columbus, Ohio, October 2000.
STEVEN F. HUEFNER 8 PUBLIC SERVICE: Associate Reporter, American Law Institute Project on Principles of Election Law: Dispute Resolution, 2011-present. Symposium organizer, Lessons from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, 2014 Moritz Legislation Clinic conference (in conjunction with Election Law @ Moritz). Pro Bono Counsel, amicus curiae National Conference of State Legislatures, inalabama Education Association v. Marsh, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (2013). Faculty Contributor, Uniform Law Commission Workshop for Drafting Committee Chairs and Reporters, and Division Chairs, Chicago, Illinois, Sept. 2012. Pro Bono Counsel, amicus curiae National Conference of State Legislatures, in Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC v. Shumlin, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2012). Member, School Advancement Accreditation Study Team, Columbus Montessori Education Center, 2012. Symposium co-organizer, HAVA at 10, 2012 Moritz Legislation Clinic conference (in conjunction with Election Law @ Moritz). Faculty Contributor, Uniform Law Commission Workshop for Drafting Committee Chairs and Reporters, and Division Chairs, Chicago, Illinois, Sept. 2011. Symposium organizer, Legislative Constitutionalism, 2011 Moritz Legislation Clinic conference. Reporter, Uniform Law Commission (ULC) Drafting Committee on A Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act, 2009-2010; Reporter, ULC Study Committee on A Uniform Military Services and Overseas Civilian Absentee Voters Act, 2008. Member, Committee on Government Relations, Association of American Law Schools, 2007-2010. Executive Committee Member, Section on Legislation, Association of American Law Schools, 2006-2009 (primary organizer of section s election law panel for AALS January 2009 Annual Meeting). Symposium organizer, The Functioning of Separation of Powers in State Government, 2008 Moritz Legislation Clinic conference. Pro Bono Counsel, amicus curiae National Conference of State Legislatures, in Washington State Farm Bureau Federation v. Gregoire, Washington Supreme Court (brief filed October 2006). Symposium organizer, The People as Legislators: The Influence of Direct Democracy, 2006 Moritz Legislation Clinic conference. Pro Bono Counsel, amicus curiae American Legislative Exchange Council, in Stephenson v. Woodward, Kentucky Supreme Court (brief filed October 2005).
STEVEN F. HUEFNER 9 PUBLIC SERVICE (continued): Symposium co-organizer, Independent Election Administration: Who Draws the Lines, Who Counts the Votes?, 2005 Election Law @ Moritz conference. Symposium organizer, Medicaid, Medicines, and Malpractice: Issues in State Health Care Policy, 2004 Moritz Legislation Clinic conference. Symposium organizer, Early Returns on Legislative Term Limits, 2002 Moritz Legislation Clinic conference. COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY SERVICE: $ Director of Clinical Programs, Moritz College of Law, 2008-present. $ Director, Moritz College of Law Legislation Clinic, 2000-present. $ Co-director, OSU Democracy Studies Program, 2014-present. $ Parliamentarian, University Senate, The Ohio State University, 2009-present. $ Member, working group to develop an OSU Election Administrator Training Program,2015-present. $ Member, working group to develop an OSU Center for the Study of Human Trafficking, 2012-present. $ Chair, Moritz Public Service Law Center Faculty Advisory Committee, 2014-present. $ Chair, Moritz College of Law Clinical Faculty Review Committee, 2013-16. $ Chair, Moritz College of Law Clinical Faculty Appointments Committee, 2010-11, 2016-17. $ Chair, Moritz College of Law Clerkship & Prof. Development Committee, 2007. $ Chair, Moritz College of Law Admissions Committee, 2005-06. $ Member, Moritz College of Law Promotion & Tenure Committee, 2016-17. $ Member, Moritz College of Law Academic Affairs Committee, 2001-04, 2014-16. $ Member, Moritz College of Law Faculty Appointments Committee, 2008-12, 2013-14. $ Member, Moritz College of Law Long-Range Planning Committee, 2012-13. $ Member, Moritz College of Law Clinical Faculty Review Committee, 2012-13. $ Member, Moritz College of Law Ad Hoc Committee on Clinic Staffing, 2008-09. $ Member, Moritz College of Law Diversity Committee, 2008. $ Member, Moritz College of Law Admissions Committee, 2004-07. $ Member, Moritz College of Law Long-Range Planning Committee, 2000-01. $ Participant, OSU President s and Provost s Leadership Institute, 2006-2008. $ Faculty Advisor to J. Reuben Clark Law Society, 2003-present. $ Faculty Advisor to first-year law students, 2000-07, 2008-2012, 2013-14, 2015-16. $ Faculty Advisor to Moritz Health Law Society, Winter 2005. $ Faculty Advisor to Ohio State Student Legislation Association, 2002-2004. $ Faculty Advisor to several joint-degree students. $ Faculty Advisor for multiple independent study projects. COURSES $ Legislation (2001-03, 2004-10, 2012-13, 2015-17). TAUGHT: $ Legislation Clinic (2000-17). $ Comparative Election Law (2012-13, 2016-17). $ Jurisprudence (2000-01, 2002-03, 2004-05, 2010-12). $ Law & Religion (2013-14, 2015-16). $ Legal Writing (2003-04, 2008-09, 2010-12, 2016-17). PROFESSIONAL $ District of Columbia Bar - Member No. 435108. MEMBERSHIPS: $ Utah State Bar - Member No. 05969. $ United States Supreme Court Bar. $ American Law Institute Member.