Nicholas Stephanopoulos

Nicholas Stephanopoulos is an American legal scholar who is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His scholarship primarily focuses on election law, constitutional law, and the interplay between law and democracy. Recognized as a leading expert in election law, his work has been cited numerous times by the United States Supreme Court. He has contributed significantly to the study of partisan gerrymandering and is a co-founder of PlanScore, a platform for evaluating district plans. He co-invented the efficiency gap, a metric used to measure potential gerrymandering in electoral systems, which quantifies the fairness of districting by calculating wasted votes. He has advocated for the passage of State Voting Rights Acts.

In October 2022, Stephanopoulos was elected to the American Law Institute. Provided by Wikipedia