Richard L. Hasen is an

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legal scholar and law professor at the

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. He is an expert in

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election law Election law is a branch of public law that relates to the democratic processes, election of representatives and office holders, and referendums, through the regulation of the electoral system, voting rights, ballot access, election management ...

and

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Education

Hasen received a

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with highest honors (in

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) from the

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in 1986. He received a

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with distinction (in

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) in 1988, and a

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in political science in 1992, both from the

. He received his

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from

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in 1991, and was elected to the

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Career

Hasen was a

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to Judge

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of the

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from 1991 to 1992 before joining the

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of Horvitz & Levy LLP, in

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. He taught at the

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from 1994 to 1997. In 1998 he took a position at

Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Loyola Law School is the law school of Loyola Marymount University, a private Jesuit university in Los Angeles, California. Loyola was established in 1920. Academics Degrees offered include the Juris Doctor (JD); Master of Science in Legal S ...

; 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 The University of California, Irvine School of Law (known as UC Irvine Law) is the law school at the University of California, Irvine, a public research university in Irvine, California. Founded in 2007, it is the fifth and newest law school in ...

in July 2011. Hasen was one of the founding co-editors of the quarterly ''

Election Law Journal ''Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed law journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. covering legal issues related to elections and voting rights. It was established in 2002 with Daniel H. Lowenstein (U ...

'', a

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ed publication on election law. He also runs ''ElectionLawBlog'', a blog focusing on election law,

election security Election cybersecurity or election security refers to the protection of elections and voting infrastructure from cyberattack or cyber threat – including the tampering with or infiltration of voting machines and equipment, election office networ ...

voting rights Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in representative democracy, public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in ...

ballot initiative A popular initiative (also citizens' initiative) is a form of direct democracy by which a petition meeting certain hurdles can force a legal procedure on a proposition. In direct initiative, the proposition is put directly to a plebiscite o ...

redistricting Redistricting in the United States is the process of drawing electoral district boundaries. For the United States House of Representatives, and state legislatures, redistricting occurs after each ten-year census. The U.S. Constitution in Art ...

, and other legal issues. In 2009, Hasen was elected to the

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. In 2013, the ''

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'' included Hasen on its list of the "100 most influential lawyers in America." In 2022, Hasen joined the faculty at

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