Professor Richard L. Hasen

Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science University of California, Irvine School of Law
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Professor Richard L. Hasen is Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.  Professor Hasen is a nationally-recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation, and is co-author of a leading casebook on election law.  From 2001-2010, he served as founding co-editor of the quarterly peer-reviewed publication, the Election Law Journal.  He is the author of over 100 articles on election law issues, published in numerous journals including the Harvard Law Review, the Stanford Law Review and the Supreme Court Review.  He was elected to The American Law Institute ("ALI") in 2009 and served as an adviser on ALI's law reform project, Principles of Election Law: Resolution of Election Disputes.  Hasen also writes the often-quoted Election Law Blog, which the American Bar Association ("ABA") Journal named to its "Blawg 100 Hall of Fame" in 2015.  His newest book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, will be published in 2018 by Yale University Press.