Richard L. Hasen
William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law
Phone: (213) 736-1466
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: rick.hasen@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, with highest departmental honors, University
of California Berkeley
MA, with distinction, University of California Los Angeles
JD, University of California Los Angeles School of Law, Order of
the Coif
PhD, University of California Los Angeles
After law school, Richard 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 of Horvitz and Levy. From 1994-1997, Hasen taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He joined Loyola's faculty in 1997 as a visiting professor and became a member of the full-time faculty in fall 1998. In 2005, he was named the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law. Hasen is a nationally-recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation, is co-author of a leading casebook on election law and co-editor of the quarterly peer-reviewed publication, Election Law Journal. He is the author of more than four dozen articles on election law issues. In 2002, Hasen was named one of the 20 top lawyers in California under age 40 by the Los Angeles (and San Francisco) Daily Journal and one of the top 100 lawyers in California in 2005. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2009. His opeds and commentaries have appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Slate. Hasen also writes the often-quoted "Election law blog." His book, The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore, was published by NYU Press in 2003.
A selection of articles is available at Social
Science Research Network's Electronic Library.
BOOKS
Remedies—Examples and Explanations (2d ed. Aspen forthcoming 2010)
The Glannon Guide to Torts: Learning Torts Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis (2009)
Election Law Cases and Materials (4th edition 2008) (with Daniel Hays Lowenstein and Danile P. Tokaji)
Remedies: Examples and Explanations (Aspen, April 2007)
Election Law: Cases and Materials (3rd edition 2004) (co-authored with Professor Daniel Hays Lowenstein)
• 2007 Supplement
• 2006 Supplement
• 2005 Supplement
The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore (NYU Press, 2003)
Election Law: Cases and Materials (2nd edition 2001) (co-authored with Professor Daniel Hays Lowenstein)
ARTICLES
Constitutional Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance at the Roberts Court, 2009 Supreme Court Review (forthcoming 2010) (draft available)
The Democracy Canon, 62 Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2009) (draft available)
Election Administration Reform and the New Institutionalism, California Law Review (forthcoming 2010) (book review) (draft available)
Assessing California’s Hybrid Democracy, California Law Review (forthcoming 2009) (draft available)
Bush v. Gore and the Lawlessness Principle: A Comment on Professor Amar, Florida L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009) (draft available)
You Don’t Have to Be a Structuralist to Hate the Supreme Court’s Dignitary Harm Election Law Cases, U. Miami L. Rev. (forthcoming 2010) (draft available)
Introduction: Developments in Election Law, 42 Loyola L.A. Law Rev. 565 (2009)
The Changing Nature of Campaign Financing for Presidential Primary Candidates, in Evolution and Revolution in the Nominations Process (Jack Citrin and David Karol eds., Rowman and Littlefield pubs.2009))
"Regulation of Campaign Finance," in Vikram Amar and Mark Tushnet, Global Perspectives on Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press (2009))
When "Legislature" May Mean More than "Legislature": Initiated Electoral College Reform and the Ghost of Bush v. Gore, 35 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 599 (2008)
"Too Plain for Argument?" The Uncertain Congressional Power to Require Parties to Choose Presidential Nominees Through Direct and Equal Primaries, 102 Northwestern University Law Review 2009 (2008)
Political Equality, the Internet, and Campaign Finance Regulation, The Forum, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Art. 7 (2008)
Justice Souter: Campaign Finance Law's Emerging Egalitarian, 1 Albany Government Law Review 169 (2008)
Beyond Incoherence: The Roberts Court's Deregulatory Turn in FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life, 92 Minnesota Law Review 1064 (2008)
The Untimely Death of Bush v. Gore, 60 Stanford Law Review (2007)
Leaving the Empty Vessel of "Republicanism" Unfilled: An Argument for the Continued Nonjusticiability of Guarantee Clause Cases, in The Political Question Doctrine and the Supreme Court of the United States (Mortada-Sabbah and Cain eds., Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)
The Newer Incoherence: Competition, Social Science, and Balancing in Campaign Finance Law After Randall v. Sorrell, 68 Ohio State Law Journal (2007)
First Amendment Limits on Regulating Judicial Campaigns, in Running for Judge (Matthew Streb ed., NYU Press, 2007)
Congressional Power to Renew Preclearance Provisions, in The Future of the Voting Rights Act (Epstein, Pildes, de la Garza and O'Halloran, eds., Russell Sage Foundation, 2006
Bad Legislative Intent, 2006 Wisconsin Law Review 843
No Exit? The Roberts Court and the Future of Election Law, 57 South Carolina Law Review 669 (2006) (symposium on voting rights)
How Much is Enough? The "Ballot Order Effect" and the Use of Social Science Evidence in Election Law Disputes, 5 Election Law Journal (2006) (co-authored with R. Michael Alvarez and Betsy Sinclair)
The Uncertain Congressional Power to Ban State Felon Disenfranchisement Laws, Howard Law Journal (2006) (symposium on voting rights) (draft available)
Lessons from the Clash Between Campaign Finance Laws and the Blogosphere, Nexus Law Journal (2006) (symposium on blogging and the law) (draft available)
The California Recall Punch Card Litigation: Why Bush v. Gore Does Not "Suck," in Clicker Politics: Essays on the California Recall 170-81 ( Shaun Bowler and Bruce E. Cain, eds. 2006)
"Beyond the Margin of Litigation: Reforming US Election Administration to Avoid Electoral Meltdown," 62 Washington and Lee Law Review 937 (2005)
"Rethinking the Unconstitutionality of Contribution and Expenditure Limits in Ballot Measure Campaigns," 78 Southern California Law Review 885 (2005)
"Congressional Power to Renew the Preclearance Provisions of the Voting Rights Act after Tennessee v. Lane," 66 Ohio State Law Journal 177 (2005)
"The Supreme Court and Election Law: A Reply to Three Commentators," 31 Journal of Legislation 1 (2004) (view entire symposium on The Supreme Court and Election Law)
Buckley is Dead, Long Live Buckley: The New Campaign Finance Incoherence of McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, 152 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 31 (2004)
Looking for Standards (in All the Wrong Places): Partisan Gerrymandering Cases after Vieth, 3 Election Law Journal 626 (2004)
"The Surprisingly Easy Case for Disclosure of Contributions and Expenditures Funding Sham Issue Advocacy," 3 Election Law Journal 251 (2004)
"A Critical Guide to Bush v. Gore Scholarship", 7 Annual Review of Political Science 297 (June 2004) (draft available)
"Comments on Baker, Clark and Direct Democracy," 13 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 563 (2004)
"The Untold Drafting History of Buckley v. Valeo," 2 Election Law Journal 241 (2003)
Vouchers and Buckley: The Need for "Regime Change," University of Richmond Law Review 1049 (2003) (symposium issue on Ackerman & Ayres, Voting with Dollars)
"After the Storm: The Uses, Normative Implications, and Unintended Consequences of Voting Reform Research in Post-Bush v. Gore Equal Protection Challenges," in Rethinking the Vote (Oxford University Press, Ann Crigler, Marion Just, and Edward McCaffery eds., 2004)
"The Constitutionality of a Soft Money Ban after Colorado Republican II," 1 Election Law Journal 195 (2002) (draft available at: http://www.brook.edu/gs/cf/Hasen.pdf).
Bush v. Gore and the Future of Equal Protection Law in Elections, 29 Florida State University Law Review 377 (2002)
"The Benefits of 'Judicially Unmanageable' Standards in Election Law Cases under the Equal Protection Clause," 80 North Carolina Law Review 1469 (2002)
"Measuring Overbreadth: Using Empirical Evidence to Determine the Constitutionality of Campaign Finance Laws Targeting Sham Issue Advocacy," 85 Minnesota Law Review 1773 (2001)
"A 'Tincture of Justice': Judge Posner's Failed Rehabilitation of Bush v. Gore, 80 Texas Law Review 137 (2001) (book review)
"Do the Parties or the People Own the Electoral Process?" 149 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 815 (2001)
"Shrink Missouri, Campaign Finance and 'The Thing That Wouldn't Leave,'" 17 Constitutional Commentary 483 (2000)
"The Suprisingly Complex Case for Disclosure of Contributions and Expenditures Funding Sham Issue Advocacy," 48 UCLA Law Review 265 (2000)
"Vote Buying," 88 California Law Review 1323 (2000)
"Parties Take the Initiative (and Vice Versa)," 100 Columbia Law Review 731 (2000)
"Mancur Olson Meets the Beltway," 3 GREEN BAG 2D 333 (2000) (book review)
Remedies, Election Law/Law of the Political Process Seminar, Torts, Legislation