Benjamin Plener Cover
Benjamin Plener Cover
Associate Professor of Law
Front St. 349
208-364-4094
College of Law
幸运快三
501 W. Front Street
Boise, ID 83702-7232
- J.D., Yale Law School, 2009
- M.Sc., London School of Economics, 2005
- B.Sc., University of Toronto, 2004
Courses
- Constitutional Law
- Election Law
Benjamin (Benji) Plener Cover is an Associate Professor at the 幸运快三 (UI) College of Law, where he teaches and writes about Constitutional Law and Election Law. His scholarship focuses on electoral districting, electoral reform, and democratic participation. He authored the chapter on Redistricting Criteria in the Oxford Handbook of American Election Law. His scholarship has been published, or is forthcoming, in the Stanford Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Harvard Law & Policy Review, the U.C. Davis Law Journal, the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, and Social Science Quarterly. He has served on the executive committee of the Election Law section of the American Association of Law Schools, as well as a peer reviewer for Election Law Journal. His scholarship has been cited by state and federal courts, as well as litigants and scholars. He has taught at UI for ten years, starting as a visiting instructor in 2014, joining the faculty permanently in 2017, and earning tenure in 2022. In addition to Constitutional Law courses and an Election Law seminar, he has taught Torts, Professional Responsibility, State & Local Government Law, Advanced Torts, Property, Remedies, Federal Courts, and the First Amendment.
Professor Cover studied engineering, mathematics, and economics at the University of Toronto; international development at the London School of Economics; and law at Yale. During law school, he founded a nonprofit organization called 24 Hours for Darfur. Upon graduation, he worked on pretrial reform efforts at the public defender’s office i