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

Richard L. Hasen is an American legal scholar and expert in legislation, election law and campaign finance. He is currently Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.[1]

Early life and education

Hasen received his BA with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986.[1] His undergraduate degree is in Middle Eastern studies.[1] He received his MA with distinction in political science in 1988 and PhD in political science in 1992, both from the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He received his JD 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, campaign finance, voting rights, 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]

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.[9]
  • 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.[10]
  • 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.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "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. ^ Reviews of Plutocrats United:
  10. ^ 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)
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