Last updated on: 2/26/2008 | Author: ProCon.org

Richard L. Hasen, PhD Biography

Title:
Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at University of California at Irvine
Position:
Con to the question "Do Electronic Voting Machines Improve the Voting Process?"
Reasoning:

“The point is not that electronic voting is the best system; maybe it should be scrapped. The real solution is to create a cadre of dedicated, professional nonpartisan administrators with enough money to run a scrupulously fair and voter-friendly system of election administration to resolve such questions.”

“Keeping the Voting Clean,” New York Times, Nov. 11, 2006
Involvement and Affiliations:
  • Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California at Irvine, 2011-present
  • William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, 2005-2011
  • Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, 1998-2005
  • Visiting Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, 1997-1998
  • Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1994-1997
  • Civil Appellate Lawyer, Horvitz and Levy
  • Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Honorable David R. Thompson
  • Co-editor, Election Law Journal
  • Author, published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Slate
  • Named one of the 20 top lawyers in California under age 40 and one of the top 100 lawyers in California by the Daily Journal, 2005
Education:
  • PhD, University of California Los Angeles
  • JD, University of California Los Angeles School of Law, Order of the Coif
  • MA, University of California Los Angeles
  • BA, University of California Berkeley
Other:
  • None found
Quoted in:
  1. Did Electronic Voting Machines in the 2000 and 2004 Elections Give an Advantage to a Particular Political Party?