Richard L. Hasen

Hasen received his Bachelor of Arts with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986.^[1] His Bachelor's degree is in Middle Eastern studies.^[1] He received his Master of Arts with distinction in political science in 1988 and Doctor of Philosophyinpolitical 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]

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]

In 2022, Hasen became a professor at the UCLA Law School.^[9][10]

• 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]

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