Hans A. von Spakovsky is a Senior Legal Fellow and Manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal & Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is an authority on a wide range of issues, including civil rights, elections, the First Amendment, immigration, the rule of law and government reform.
He is a former member of President Donald Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. From 2006 to 2007, von Spakovsky was a member of the Federal Election Commission. He served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2002 to 2005. Prior to entering public service, Hans von Spakovsky worked for 17 years as a government affairs consultant, in a corporate legal department, and in private practice.
He is a 1984 graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Law and received a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, which he attended on a National Merit Scholarship. He is a member of the boards of the American Civil Rights Union and the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
He is the 2016 winner of the Drs. W. Glenn and Rita Ricardo Campbell Award from the Heritage Foundation and received Meritorious Service Awards from the U.S. Department of Justice in 2003, 2004, and 2005.
von Spakovsky is the coauthor of “Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk” (Encounter 2012) and “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department” (HarperCollins/Broadside 2014). His 2011 series “Every Single One” at PJ Media was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and his articles have appeared in Fox News, National Review Online, and the Wall Street Journal.
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Does the Voter ID Requirement Safeguard the Election Process? [POLICYbrief]
Short video with Hans von Spakovsky
Voter identification laws have been the subject of heated debate. Do voter ID requirements prevent...
Deep Dive Episode 71 – Accounting for Race 101: Virginia Universities and Racial Preferences
Regulatory Transparency Project's Fourth Branch Podcast
On September 10, 2019, The Federalist Society hosted a luncheon cosponsored with the Center...
Accounting for Race 101: Virginia Universities and Racial Preferences
Regulatory Transparency Project
On September 10, 2019, The Federalist Society hosted a luncheon cosponsored with the Center for...
Accounting for Race 101: Virginia Universities and Racial Preferences
Regulatory Transparency Project
On September 10, 2019, The Federalist Society hosted a luncheon cosponsored with the Center for...
Courthouse Steps Decision: The Gerrymandering Cases, Rucho et al. v. Common Cause et al.
On June 27, the Supreme Court decided several redistricting cases in Rucho et al. v. Common...