Office Hours:
Tuesday,
2 -3:30 p.m.

Contact Info:
Professor Spencer Overton
The George Washington University Law School
2000 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052

(202)994-9794
soverton@law.gwu.edu

Updated
12 April, 2005

Spencer A. Overton
soverton@law.gwu.edu

Selected Published Articles

The Donor Class: Campaign Finance, Democracy, and Participation, 152 U. PA. L. REV. (forthcoming 2004).

Restraint and Responsibility: Judicial Review of Campaign Reform, 61 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 663 (2004).

Judicial Modesty and the Lessons of McConnell v. FEC, 3 ELECTION L. J. 305 (2004).

Racial Disparities and the Political Function of Property, 49 UCLA L. REV. 1553 (2002).

But Some Are More Equal: Race, Exclusion, and Campaign Finance, 80 TEX. L. REV. 987 (2002).

Rules, Standards, and Recounts: Form and the Law of Democracy, 37 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 65 (2002).

Voices from the Past: Race, Privilege, and Campaign Finance, 79 N.C. L. REV. 1541 (2001).

A Place at the Table: Bush v. Gore Through the Lens of Race, 29 FLA. ST. L. REV. 469 (2001).

Mistaken Identity: Unveiling the Property Characteristics of Political Money, 53 VAND. L. REV. 1235 (2000).

Recent Op-ed Articles

Voter ID Supporters Lack Hard Evidence, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, April 8, 2005.

Campaign Reform's Next Step, THE BOSTON GLOBE, Dec. 12, 2003.


Campaign Finance Law Puts Black Incumbents at Risk
, ROLL CALL, Sept. 12, 2002.

Reform for the Rest of America, WASH. POST, May 10, 2001, at A31.

Fannie Lou Hamer Wouldn't Like This , L.A. TIMES, Mar. 29, 2001, at B11.

Recent Appearances
Hear Prof. Overton talk with NPR's Tavis Smiley about campaign finance.