Professor Elmendorf's varied teaching and research interests include election law, administrative law, constitutional law, and property and natural resources law.  His recent writings have focused on (1) the roles that ongoing advisory bodies can play in fostering governmental accountability and sustaining the foundational commitments of liberal democracy, and (2) judicial formulation and administration of doctrines to implement the fundamental right to vote.  His work has been published in the New York University Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, and the Election Law Journal, among other journals.  His article, “Advisory Counterparts to Constitutional Courts,” was selected for the 2006 Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum.

• Member, Affirmative Action and Diversity Committee, University of California at Davis (academic years 2005-06 & 2006-07)
• Faculty Advisor, U.C. Davis Law Review (academic years 2005-06, 2006-07, and 2007-08)
• Faculty Advisory, Environmental Law Society, University of California at Davis School of Law (2004-present)
• Member, Libraries Committee, University of California at Davis School of Law (academic year 2004-05)
• Peer reviews conducted for the Election Law Journal
• Joint Research Fellow, National Wildlife Federation & Political Economy Research Center, 2001-2002.

• Securing Ecological Investments on Other People’s Land: A Transaction-Costs Perspective, 44 NAT. RESOURCES J. 529 (2004). (symposium on “Private Lands Conservation: Institutions and Instruments”)
• Ideas, Incentives, Gifts, and Governance: Toward Conservation Stewardship of Private Land, In Cultural and Psychological Perspective, 2003 U.ILL. L. REV. 423.
• Note, State Courts, Citizen Suits, and the Enforcement of Federal Environmental Law by Non-Article III Plaintiffs, 110 YALE L. J. 1003 (2001).
• Gatekeeping vs. Balancing in the Constitutional Law of Elections: Methodological Uncertainty on the High Court, 17 William & Mary Bill Rts. J. 507 (2008) (with Edward B. Foley) (symposium on “How We Vote”)
• Undue Burdens on Voter Participation: New Pressures for a Structural Theory of the Right to Vote?, 35 Hastings Const. L. Q. 643 (2008) (symposium on “Frontiers of Democracy”)
• N.Y. State Bd. of Elections v. Torres: Is the Right to Vote a Constitutional Constraint on Party Nominating Conventions?, 6 Election L. J. 399 (2007)
• Brief of Amici Curiae Professors Christopher S. Elmendorf and Daniel P. Tokaji in Support of Petitioners, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, 128 S.Ct. 1610 (2008
• Two Models for Building Public Confidence in the Electoral Process, Two Models for Building Public Confidence in the Electoral Process
• On Choosing the Right Guide: Crawford & The Carter-Baker Commission Revisited, Balkinization, June 3, 2008
• Judicial Review of Electoral Mechanics After Crawford, Election Law @ Moritz, May 6, 2008
• On Lopez Torres and Line Drawing, Election Law @ Moritz, Jan. 22, 2008
• Burdick or Carrington?: ‘Fencing Out’ and the Voter ID Litigation, Election Law @ Moritz, Sept. 12, 2006
• Next Time, Start with the People, Balkinization, Nov. 10, 2005 (with Heather Gerken)
• Policing the Politics of Electoral Reform: Some Unanswered Questions About Partisanship, Public Confidence, and the Prospects for a Salutary Judicial Role, Duke Law School (conference on “The Future of Elections Scholarship,” sponsored by the Tobin Foundation), Feb. 2009
• Empirical Legitimacy and Election Law, University of Texas School of Law (Constitutional Law and Legal Theory Colloquium), Feb. 2009
• Undue Burdens on Voter Participation: New Pressures for a Structural Theory of the Right to Vote?, Georgetown University Law Center (faculty workshop), Feb. 2008
• Advisory Counterparts to Constitutional Courts, Yale Law School (Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum), May 2006
• Reforming the Politics of Election Law Reform: The Contribution of Nonpartisan Electoral Bodies, Moritz College of Law (conference on “Independent Election Administration: Who Draws the Lines, and Who Counts the Votes?”), Sept. 2005
• Representation Reinforcement Through Advisory Commissions: The Case of Election Law, University of California at Davis School of Law (faculty workshop), Oct. 2004
• Securing Ecological Investments on Other People’s Land, Politics and Economy Research Center (forum on “Private Lands Conservation: Institutions and Instruments”), Dec. 2002