Steven F. Huefner

Professor of Law; Director of Clinical Programs; Legislation Clinic Director; Senior Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz

Phone: (614) 292-1763
Email: huefner.4@osu.edu
Office: Drinko 255R

Education
A.B., Harvard College, Philosophy and Government, 1986 (magna cum laude)
J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1991

Steven F. Huefner, Election Law @ Moritz Senior Fellow, Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Director of Clinical Programs, and Director of the Moritz Legislation Clinic, has wide-ranging election law experience and interests, including the specific areas of contested elections, term limits in state legislative elections, military and overseas voting, legislative redistricting, and poll worker responsibility and training.

Steven F. Huefner, Election Law @ Moritz Senior Fellow, Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Director of Clinical Programs, and Director of the Moritz Legislation Clinic, has wide-ranging election law experience and interests, including the specific areas of contested elections, term limits in state legislative elections, military and overseas voting, legislative redistricting, and poll worker responsibility and training.

Prior to joining the faculty at Moritz, Professor Huefner spent five years in the U.S. Senate's Office of Legal Counsel, where his responsibilities included advising the U.S. Senate in matters of contested Senate elections, as well as assisting in the 1999 presidential impeachment trial.

At Moritz, Professor Huefner draws on his previous experience to teach Legislation and direct the Legislation Clinic. As Director of the Legislation Clinic, Professor Huefner has studied many aspects of Ohio's electoral processes, including campaign finance law, lobbying regulation, other campaign practices, legislative term limits, and the initiative and referendum processes of direct democracy.

Professor Huefner is the co-author of "From Registration to Recounts: The Election Ecosystems of Five Midwestern States," (2007) and its sequel, "From Registration to Recounts Revisited: Developments in the Election Ecosystems of Five Midwestern." (2011) (both co-authored with Edward B. Foley, Daniel P. Tokaji & Nathan A. Cemenska). Professor Huefner's other election law scholarship includes: "Don't Just Make Redistricters More Accountable to the People, Make Them the People," 5 Duke J. Const. Law & Pub. Pol'y 37 (July 2010); "What Can the United States Learn from Abroad about Resolving Disputed Elections," 13 N.Y.U.J. Legis.& Pub.Pol'y. 523 (2010); "Just How Settled Are the Legal Principles that Control Election Disputes?," 8 Election L.J. 233 (September 2009); "Remedying Election Wrongs," 44 Harv. J. on Legis. 265 (2007); "Independent Election Administration: Who Counts the Votes? Who Draws the Lines?" (with Daniel Tokaji), 5 Election L.J. 410 (2006); "Term Limits in State Legislative Elections," 79 Ind. L.J. 427 (2004). (See Bibliography.)

Professor Huefner is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law, and Harvard College.