Richard L. Hasen is an American legal scholar and law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an expert in legislation, election law and campaign finance.[1]
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| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (MA, PhD, JD) |
| Known for | Legislation Election law Campaign finance |
Education
editHasen received a Bachelor of Arts with highest honors (in Middle Eastern studies) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986.[1] He received a Master of Arts with distinction (in political science) in 1988, and a Doctor of Philosophy in political science in 1992, both from the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He received his Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law in 1991, and was elected to the Order of the Coif.[1]
Career
editHasen was a law clerk to Judge David R. Thompson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1991 to 1992 before joining the law firm of Horvitz & Levy LLP, in Encino, California.[1]
He taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law from 1994 to 1997.[2] In 1998 he took a position at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; in 2005, he was named by Loyola as the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law. He left Loyola to become a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law in July 2011.[1]
Hasen was one of the founding co-editors of the quarterly Election Law Journal, a peer reviewed publication on election law.[1] He also runs ElectionLawBlog, a blog focusing on election law, election security, campaign finance, voting rights, ballot initiatives, redistricting, and other legal issues.[3][4][5][6]
In 2009,[1] Hasen was elected to the American Law Institute.[7] In 2013, the National Law Journal included Hasen on its list of the "100 most influential lawyers in America."[8]
In 2022, Hasen joined the faculty at UCLA School of Law.[9][10]
Books
edit- Hasen, Richard L. (August 14, 2012). The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18421-1. JSTOR j.ctt32bft8. OCLC 808341874.
- Hasen, Richard L. (January 12, 2016). Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-21674-5. OCLC 936378410.[11]
- Hasen, Richard L. (March 20, 2018). The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-22864-9. OCLC 1002129887.[12]
- Hasen, Richard L. (February 4, 2020). Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy. Yale University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvw1d4ww. ISBN 978-0-300-24819-7. JSTOR j.ctvw1d4ww. OCLC 1111981022. S2CID 243732678.
- Hasen, Richard L. (March 8, 2022). Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics―and How to Cure It. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25937-7.
- Hasen, Richard L. (February 20, 2024). A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691257716.[13]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h "Richard L. Hasen". University of California, Irvine. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
- ^ "Richard Hasen". Georgetown University Law Center. Archived from the original on August 26, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
- ^ Maxwell, William Earl; Crain, Ernest; Santos, Adolfo (2013). Texas Politics Today, 2013–2014 Edition. Cengage Learning. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-285-54610-0. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
- ^ Barr, Andy. "Deadlock: Rise of the Endless Election". NBC Connecticut. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
- ^ Barr, Andy. "Deadlock: Rise of the endless election". Politico. Archived from the original on September 14, 2019. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
- ^ Barr, Andy. "Birther debate alive across U.S." Politico. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
- ^ "Professor Richard L. Hasen". American Law Institute. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
- ^ "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America". The American Lawyer. March 25, 2013. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
- ^ "Richard L. Hasen". The Regents of the University of California.
- ^ "Hasen Moving to UCLA Law". March 24, 2022.
- ^ Reviews of Plutocrats United:
- Ridout, Travis N. (December 2016). Perspectives on Politics. 14 (4): 1223–1224. doi:10.1017/S1537592716003674. ISSN 1537-5927. S2CID 151935419.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Pevnick, Ryan (June 1, 2016). "An Egalitarian Approach to Campaign Finance Reform". The New Rambler. Archived from the original on August 23, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
- Ridout, Travis N. (December 2016). Perspectives on Politics. 14 (4): 1223–1224. doi:10.1017/S1537592716003674. ISSN 1537-5927. S2CID 151935419.
- ^ Russello, Gerald J. (2019). The Review of Politics. 81 (1): 136–141. doi:10.1017/S0034670518000803. ISSN 0034-6705.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - ^ "A Real Right to Vote | Princeton University Press". press.princeton.edu. February 20, 2024. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
External links
edit- Profile at University of California, Irvine
- Richard Hasen publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Richard Hasen on Twitter
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Election Law Blog