A 2001 graduate of Yale Law School, Chris Elmendorf came to Davis following a clerkship with Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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.
Law Clerk, Judge Guido Calabresi, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2002-2003.

Joint Research Fellow, National Wildlife Federation & Political Economy Research Center, 2001-2002.
B.A. with Highest Honors, Economics, Oberlin College, 1994; J.D., Yale Law School, 2001

Law of the Political Process, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Natural Rescources Law
Structuring Judicial Review of Electoral Mechanics, Part I: Explanations and Opportunities, 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007)

Advisory Counterparts to Constitutional Courts, 56 Duke L.J. 1366 (2007).

Election Commissions & Electoral Reform: An Overview, 5 Election L.J. 425 (2006).

Representation Reinforcement Through Advisory Commissions: The Case of Election Law, 80 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1366 (2005).

Securing Ecological Investments on Other People’s Land: A Transaction-Costs Perspective, 44 NAT. RESOURCES J. 529 (2004).

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).