Dr. Lisa Manheim

Professor

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Biography

Lisa Marshall Manheim is the Charles Stone Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law. She specializes in constitutional law, election law, federal courts, and legislation, and has published extensively in leading academic journals such as the University of Chicago Law Review and Vanderbilt Law Review. Manheim has a distinguished background in legal scholarship, co-reporting for the Restatement of Law, Election Litigation project for the American Law Institute. She 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. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval on the U.S. Court of Appeals and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining academia, she practiced law at Perkins Coie LLP, focusing on appellate and commercial litigation.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor of Law

2005-01-01 — Present

University of Washington School of Law • Seattle, WA

Teaching and researching areas in constitutional law, election law, federal courts, and legislation.

Courses

Constitutional Law Administrative Law Election Law Federal Courts Legislation

Requirements for University of Washington

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:80
IELTS
Overall
Required:6.5
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:105
Overall
Required:105
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university
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Specialization Notes

Standard Graduate School requirements for University of Washington apply to most departments listed unless specified otherwise by the program.