Rick Hasen
Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Rick Hasen is Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine School of Law and co-director of its Fair Elections and Free Speech Center. Beginning July 2022, he will be a professor at UCLA School of Law. An expert in election law and campaign finance regulation, Hasen also writes about legislation and statutory interpretation, remedies, and torts. He co-authored casebooks in election law and remedies and authored five other books, most recently Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics—and How to Cure It. Hasen, who writes the “Election Law Blog,” was an election law analyst for CNN in 2020. He was named one of National Law Journal’s 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America in 2013.
Previously
There’s nothing so sacred — or lately, so contested — as casting a ballot. But once the circle is filled, the screen is pressed, or the hole is punched, how can we be sure our...
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