Edward Foley

Edward Foley holds the Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law and directs the election law program at The Ohio State University. He is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law and Yale College. Foley clerked for Chief Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Harry Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as a State Solicitor in the office of Ohio’s Attorney General. Previous publications include Presidential Elections and Majority Rule and Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States. Foley is a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, and his op-eds and other essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Atlantic, and POLITICO, among others.