Richard L. Hasen

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Richard L. Hasen is a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles^[1] .

Professor Hasen has a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA, JD, and PhD from UCLA^[1]. He has clerked for the Honorable David R. Thompson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 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 three 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^[2] and one of the top 100 lawyers in California in 2005. Hasen also writes the widely read "Election Law blog."^[3] His most recent book, The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore, was published by NYU Press in 2003.^[4]