Guy-Uriel E. Charles is Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he also directs the Charles Hamilton Institute for Race and Justice. He writes about how law mediates political power and how law addresses racial subordination. Charles teaches courses on civil procedure; election law; constitutional law; race and law; critical race theory; legislation and statutory interpretation; law, economics, and politics; and law, identity, and politics. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Law Institute. Charles was appointed by President Joe Biden to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States and is currently working on a book (under contract with Cambridge University Press) with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer on the past and future of voting rights. The book argues that the race-based model that underlies the Voting Rights Act has run its course and that the best way to protect against racial discrimination in voting is through a universal, positive-rights model of political participation.