Lisa Marshall Manheim

  • Charles I. Stone Professor of Law

Contact

Phone: (206) 685-2546
Email: manheim@uw.edu

Education

B.A. 2002, Yale J.D. 2005, Yale

Areas of Expertise

Civil Litigation and Procedure — Constitutional Law — Election Law — Federal Courts — Legislation — U.S. Supreme Court

Recent Courses

Course Number Course Name
Constitutional Law I: Constitutional Structures of Government
Administrative Law
Election Law
Legislation

Selected Publications

See the full list under the Publications tab below.

Professor Lisa Manheim is the Charles I. Stone Professor of Law at the ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ. 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.

Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews


Books or Treatises

  • Lisa Marshall Manheim, Constitutional Law: Structures of Government (2021).

Book Chapters


Book Reviews

  • Lisa Marshall Manheim, Book Review, 131 Pol. Sci. Q. 645-46 (2016) (reviewing Jeb Barnes & Thomas F. Burke, How Policy Shapes Politics: Rights, Courts, Litigation, and the Struggle over Injury Compensation (2015)).

News Media


  • Commentator, Election Law Conference, Washington University School of Law (March 22, 2024)
  • Speaker, George Mason University School of Law (February 28, 2024)
  • Panelist, with Jeff M. Feldman, Elizabeth G. Porter, Clark B. Lombardi, ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ (February 7, 2024)
  • Speaker, Town Hall Seattle, (May 24, 2023)
  • Panelist, University of Wisconsin Law School (January 27, 2023)
  • Panelist, Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University (December 9, 2022)
  • Panelist, Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University (September 13, 2022)
  • Speaker, "Faculty Workshop Series," Washington University School of Law (Virtual) (November 10, 2021)
  • Speaker, "Rebuilding Democracy and the Rule of Law," AALS Conference (Virtual), (May 7, 2021)
  • Speaker, "Restoring Trust in the Voting Process," Election Law Journal (Virtual) (March 9, 2021)
  • Speaker, "The Impact of the 15th and 19th Amendments on the 2020 Presidential Election," Louisiana Law Review (Virtual) (March 5, 2021)
  • Speaker, with Hugh Spitzer, Universitas Indonesia (November 20, 2020)
  • Panelist, "What if the 2020 Presidential Election is Disputed?," Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (participated remotely) (May 4, 2020)
  • Speaker, Law in the Time of COVID Series, ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ (April 16, 2020)
  • Speaker, "Presidential Control of Elections," Gonzaga University School of Law (December 5, 2019)
  • Mar 28, 2025 | Source: KUOW
  • Mar 23, 2025 | Source: The Spokesman Review
  • Oct 31, 2024 | Source: The Stranger
  • Oct 25, 2024 | Source: The Daily
  • Sep 19, 2024 | Source: PolitiFact
  • Jan 19, 2023 | Source: American Law Institute
  • Oct 03, 2022 | Source: Bloomberg Law
  • Jul 05, 2021 | Source: NBC News
  • May 21, 2021 | Source: CNN
  • Feb 11, 2021 | Source: The Seattle Times
  • Jan 27, 2021 | Source: KUOW
  • Jan 24, 2021 | Source: CNN
  • Jan 08, 2021 | Source: Q13
  • Jan 08, 2021 | Source: CNBC
  • Jan 07, 2021 | Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  • Jan 05, 2021 | Source: The Spokesman-Review
  • Jan 05, 2021 | Source: KUOW
  • Dec 21, 2020 | Source: Business Insider
  • Dec 11, 2020 | Source: The Guardian
  • Dec 11, 2020 | Source: The Associated Press
  • Dec 09, 2020 | Source: KNKX
  • Dec 09, 2020 | Source: Vox
  • Dec 09, 2020 | Source: Market Watch
  • Dec 09, 2020 | Source: Forbes
  • Dec 09, 2020 | Source: Bloomberg
  • Dec 09, 2020 | Source: The Washington Post
  • Nov 26, 2020 | Source: The Associated Press
  • Nov 25, 2020 | Source: The Spokesman-Review
  • Nov 14, 2020 | Source: NZ Herald
  • Nov 12, 2020 | Source: Politico
  • Nov 11, 2020 | Source: KIRO Radio
  • Nov 11, 2020 | Source: Public News Service
  • Nov 10, 2020 | Source: Law360
  • Nov 10, 2020 | Source: The Spokesman-Review
  • Nov 06, 2020 | Source: Q13
  • Nov 06, 2020 | Source: KOMO 4
  • Nov 06, 2020 | Source: Financial Times
  • Nov 05, 2020 | Source: The Spokesman-Review
  • Nov 05, 2020 | Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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  • Nov 05, 2020 | Source: KOMO Radio
  • Nov 04, 2020 | Source: CNBC
  • Nov 02, 2020 | Source: Slate
  • Nov 02, 2020 | Source: The Atlantic
  • Nov 02, 2020 | Source: Nature
  • Sep 22, 2020 | Source: Marketplace