Derek Muller

April 11, 2024

Derek Muller, a professor at the University of Notre Dame's law school who focuses on election law.

March 20, 2024

And another from Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on election law, urged the court to be precise in any opinion that leaves authority to Congress in that area.

March 18, 2024

Even with their claims of new evidence, Derek Muller, a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, told the Arizona Mirror that he believes the case is “a longshot.” 

March 05, 2024

“Colorado can’t do this and really no other state can do this in the primary or general election,” said Derek Muller, a constitutional law expert and law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School. 

March 04, 2024

As Notre Dame election law scholar Derek Muller observed: "States are the ones who have the primary responsibility of running presidential elections.

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February 15, 2024

Co-hosts John Fortier and Don Palmer are joined by Rick Hasen (Professor of Law at UCLA Law) and Derek Muller (Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School), to discuss Trump v. Anderson.

February 08, 2024

The Conversation’s senior politics and democracy editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with Notre Dame election law scholar Derek Muller after the oral arguments.

February 07, 2024

Several arguments made in the case offer the Supreme Court an opportunity to defer the dispute to a different branch of government, said Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on election law.

February 06, 2024

“It’s very strange to name the Senate and House but not the president,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor, characterizing this position. 

January 25, 2024

"It would pretty clearly foreclose any challenge to a presidential candidate for being not qualified under the United States Constitution," Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, said of the bill.

January 09, 2024

The Conversation’s senior politics and democracy editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with Notre Dame election law scholar Derek Muller about the Supreme Court’s decision to take the case, which will rest on the court’s interpretation of a post Civil War-era amendment aimed at keeping those who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from serving in political office.

January 09, 2024

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, noted that courts are "asked to decide tough questions all the time."

January 09, 2024

Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said he believes Trump, the first former US president ever to face criminal charges, faces an "uphill battle" in the immunity case.

January 02, 2024

This is an effort to keep that trial date as much as reasonably possible with existing legal mechanisms," Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law school professor, told Axios after Smith's request.

December 21, 2023

"There's no winning," Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller told Axios.

December 20, 2023

Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who has followed the case closely, called the Colorado decision a “major and extraordinary holding” that will require the U.S. Supreme Court “to step into the thorniest of political thickets.”

November 03, 2023

Courts will now contend with thorny legal questions, such as what actually constitutes a rebellion and whether Congress needs to make that clearer through legislation before courts can weigh in, according to Professor Derek Muller, an elections law expert at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

September 12, 2023

Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said a secretary of state’s authority over removing Mr. Trump’s name from the ballot depends on state law.

July 19, 2023

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame Law School, said the criminal charges leveled are a "fraught" area of the law.