Eugene D. Mazo

Eugene D. Mazo is Associate Professor of Law and Political Science at Duquesne University. He is a nationally recognized of scholar of election law who has written widely about the theory and practice of democracy, both in the United States and around the world. Professor Mazo served as the chair of the Section on Election Law at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), where he is also a member of the executive committee of the Section on Constitutional Law. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Oxford 2024), The Best Candidate: Presidential Nomination in Polarized Times (Cambridge 2020), Democracy by the People: Reforming Campaign Finance in America (Cambridge 2018), and Election Law Stories (Foundation Press 2016). A graduate of Columbia College, Professor Mazo received his master's degree from Harvard, a doctorate in politics from Oxford, and his law degree from Stanford.