Last updated on:
4/16/2008 |
Author: ProCon.org
Janai Nelson, JD Biography
- Title:
- Director of the Political Participation Group at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Felons Who Have Completed Their Sentence (Incarceration, Probation, and Parole) Be Allowed to Vote?"
- Reasoning:
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“The issue of disenfranchisement has such an impact on the political power of African Americans that we can not ignore the issue. We have to make a change to the voting practices that are in place now.”
Interview with the Ashville Global News, June 28, 2004
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with PhD's, JD's, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to felon voting issues. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to felon voting issues. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Assistant Counsel and Director of the Political Participation Group at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., 2003-Present
- Fried Frank LDF Fellowship, attorney at Fried Frank LLP and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1998-2003
- Clerk for the Hon. Theodore McMillian, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1997-1998
- Clerk for the Hon. David H. Coar, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1996-1997
- Externship with the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1996
- Articles Editor for the UCLA Law Review, Consulting Editor of the National Black Law Journal and Associate Editor of the UCLA Women’s Law Journal, 1995-1996
- Recipient, Fried Frank LDF Fellowship, 1998
- Education:
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- JD, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, 1996
- BA, New York University, 1993
- Other:
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- None found
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