Richard Hasen

Richard Hasen
Rick Hasen in 2018 at South by Southwest
Education	University of California, Berkeley (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (MA, PhD, JD)
Known for	Legislation Election law Campaign finance

Richard L. Hasen is a liberal 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]

Education

Hasen 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

Hasen 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

• 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

1. "Richard L. Hasen". University of California, Irvine. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
2. "Richard Hasen". Georgetown University Law Center. Archived from the original on August 26, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
3. 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.
4. Barr, Andy. "Deadlock: Rise of the Endless Election". NBC Connecticut. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
5. Barr, Andy. "Deadlock: Rise of the endless election". Politico . Archived from the original on September 14, 2019. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
6. Barr, Andy. "Birther debate alive across U.S." Politico . Archived from the original on November 19, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
7. "Professor Richard L. Hasen". American Law Institute. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
8. "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.
9. "Richard L. Hasen". The Regents of the University of California.
10. "Hasen Moving to UCLA Law". March 24, 2022.
11. 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.
    • 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.
12. Russello, Gerald J. (2019). The Review of Politics . 81 (1): 136–141. doi:10.1017/S0034670518000803. ISSN   0034-6705.
13. "A Real Right to Vote | Princeton University Press". press.princeton.edu. February 20, 2024. Retrieved February 24, 2024.

External links

• Profile at University of California, Irvine
• Richard Hasen publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Richard Hasen on Twitter
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Election Law Blog