Jerry Goldfeder is Director of the Fordham Law School Voting Rights and Democracy Project, senior counsel at Cozen O'Connor, Chair of the ABA Election Law Committee, and member of the NYC Bar Association's Rule of Law Task Force. His forty-year election law and voting rights practice has included representing a variety of high-profile elected officials, including members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, state and local government officials and members of the judiciary, as well as candidates for President of the United States. He is the author of the treatise Goldfeder’s Modern Election Law, now in its 7th Edition; the Election and Political Law column in the New York Law Journal; and many articles in academic journals and the mainstream media. He teaches Election Law and the Future of American Democracy at Fordham Law School, where he has taught for twenty years and has been twice-named Adjunct Professor of the Year. He also taught Election Law for ten years at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Goldfeder previously served as Special Counsel for Public Integrity to the New York State Attorney General.


