Professor Richard L. Hasen is Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Hasen is a nationally recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation, and is co-author of a leading casebook on election law.
From 2001-2010, he served (with Dan Lowenstein) as founding co-editor of the quarterly peer-reviewed publication, Election Law Journal. He is the author of over 100 articles on election law issues, published in numerous journals including the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review and Supreme Court Review. He was elected to The American Law Institute in 2009 and served as an Adviser on ALI’s law reform project, Principles of Election Law: Resolution of Election Disputes.
Professor Hasen was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by The National Law Journal in 2013, and one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California in 2005 and 2016 by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal.
His op-eds and commentaries have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, and Slate. Hasen also writes the often-quoted Election Law Blog, which the ABA Journal named to its “Blawg 100 Hall of Fame” in 2015. His newest book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, will be published in 2018 by Yale University Press.
Professor Hasen holds a B.A. degree (with highest honors) from UC Berkeley, and a J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. (Political Science) from UCLA. After law school, Hasen clerked for the Honorable David R. Thompson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then worked as a civil appellate lawyer at the Encino firm Horvitz and Levy.
From 1994-1997, Hasen taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and from 1998-2011 he taught at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he was named the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law in 2005. He joined the UC Irvine School of Law faculty in July 2011, and is a faculty member of the UC Irvine Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy.
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Donor privacy and Campaign-Related Speech
2018 Annual Western Chapters Conference
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation40 Presidential Drive
Simi Valley, CA 93065
Panel One: Has the United States Supreme Court killed California’s initiative process or helped check its abuses?
2014 Annual Western Chapters Conference
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library40 Presidential Drive
Simi Valley, CA 93065
Citizens United and Its Effect on the Electoral Process
The California Club 538 South Flower StreetLos Angeles, 90071
Donor privacy and Campaign-Related Speech
2018 Annual Western Chapters Conference
With federal proposals like the DISCLOSE Act sidelined by Republicans in Congress, some state governments...
Donor privacy and Campaign-Related Speech
2018 Annual Western Chapters Conference
With federal proposals like the DISCLOSE Act sidelined by Republicans in Congress, some state governments...
Panel One: Has the United States Supreme Court killed California’s initiative process or helped check its abuses?
2014 Annual Western Chapters Conference
This panel will focus on what effect the United States Supreme Court’s holding that initiative...
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