Doug Spencer聽is the associate dean for faculty affairs and research at Colorado Law. He is an election law expert whose research addresses the role of prejudice and racial attitudes in voting rights litigation, the empirical implications of various campaign finance regulations and the ways that election rules and political campaigns contribute to growing inequality in America. From 2013-2021, Spencer was professor of law and public policy at the University of Connecticut. He has also held visiting professor positions at the Yale Law School and the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies.
Professor Spencer has worked as an expert witness in voting rights and campaign finance cases and, prior to teaching law, was a law clerk at the Lawyers鈥� Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco, an election monitor in Thailand for the Asian Network for Free Elections and a researcher for the Pew Center on the States鈥� Military and Overseas Voting Reform Project.聽