Richard L. Hasen is an 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]
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Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (MA, PhD, JD) |
Known for | Legislation Election law Campaign finance |
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 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]
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]
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