Phone: (206) 685-2546
Email: manheim@uw.edu
B.A. 2002, Yale J.D. 2005, Yale
Civil Litigation and Procedure — Constitutional Law — Election Law — Federal Courts — Legislation — U.S. Supreme Court
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Professor Lisa Manheim is the Charles I. Stone Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law. She writes in the areas of constitutional law, election law, and presidential powers. Professor Manheim’s scholarship, which explores questions of federalism and institutionalism in the context of elections, has been published in the University of Chicago Law Review, the Supreme Court Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and other leading academic journals. She has appeared, on air or in print, in a range of national and international news outlets, and her opinion pieces have been published in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among other publications. She also serves as the co-reporter on the Restatement of the Law, Election Litigation, a project of the American Law Institute.
Professor Manheim's courses include Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Election Law, Federal Courts, and Legislation. She is a five-time recipient of the Philip A. Trautman Professor of the Year Award given by the student body.
Professor Manheim earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale College and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduating from law school, Professor Manheim clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington, Professor Manheim worked as an associate at Perkins Coie LLP, where she specialized in appellate practice, commercial litigation, and political law.
Democratic attorneys general from five states including Washington said Friday they were disappointed but undeterred by the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in favor of the Trump administration in a case surrounding birthright citizenship. Lisa Marshall Manheim, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“One of the reasons we’re seeing so many lawsuits in Seattle is the sense that the judges here are likely to be more receptive to these sorts of claims,” said University of Washington law professor Lisa Manheim. “We saw the same thing when President Biden was in office — the state of Texas filed dozens of lawsuits against the Biden administration, all in the same district in Texas, where they felt the judge would be more receptive to those sorts of challenges,” she added.
Lisa Marshall Manheim, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, said the court orders may prompt the Trump administration to revise its approach to firing federal workers.
The Supreme Court’s decision will almost certainly not come in time to affect next week’s election, but “the decision that the Supreme Court reaches in this case could potentially have far-reaching consequences for the way that Washington State runs its elections more generally,” says Lisa Manheim, a professor at University of Washington’s School of Law. “The reason why is that the Court is trying to figure out how closely it should be looking at measures that Washington State puts into place that may make it more difficult for eligible voters to cast a ballot and have it counted.”
The UW School of Law hosted a lecture Oct. 22 explaining “Presidential Power,” connecting it to the upcoming 2024 United States presidential election. This lecture focused on the power and authority that presidents have in the U.S., how power is balanced throughout the government, and how this affects U.S. citizens.
The Project 2025 proposal is "shocking" and, if pursued, "would surely chill any election administrator from taking action that is, according to Project 2025, unlawful," said Lisa Marshall Manheim, a University of Washington law professor. "Frankly, just having this proposal in this document likely will have a chilling effect."
The American Law Institute’s Council voted today to approve the launch of a Restatement of the Law project on Election Litigation. The project will be led by Reporters Lisa Manheim of the University of Washington School of Law and Derek T. Muller of the University of Iowa College of Law.
“Lawyers in the Civil Rights Division are unlikely to file lawsuits they know are doomed to fail,” said Lisa Manheim an election law professor at the University of Washington. “Bringing a lawsuit that eventually gets dismissed generally is not a good use of DOJ resources. Given the sweeping arguments about Section 2 that Alabama is advancing in Milligan, it makes sense if DOJ is waiting to see how the Court resolves the case before filing complaints against other jurisdictions.”
Amid all the voting changes in state laws, giving more power to partisan officials to overturn an election is at the top of the list of concerns. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw tried to downplay his December decision to sign on to a legal brief in support of the Texas lawsuit that sought to get the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Find out more about our students in this returning series where we ask them 20 questions about their time here at UW Law.
Lisa Manheim, Charles I. Stone Professor of Law, explains the different routes available for bringing lawsuits against executive orders, as well as other ways they can be stopped.
Faculty organized an expert panel to discuss topics focused on federalism, health care, international implications and tribal and natural resources.
Faculty organized an expert panel to discuss topics including developments in the federal courts and the Supreme Court, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental policy and immigration.
Dean Tamara F. Lawson and the UW School of Law hosted “Presidential Power,” part of the Provost's "Democracy in Focus" lecture series leading up the 2024 Presidential Election.
Professors Feldman, Manheim, Lombardi and Porter tackled a SCOTUS case involving former president Trump before a packed audience on Feb. 4.
