Voting Rights
Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Rick Hasen, Professor of Law and Political Science and Director, Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law and author of Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy, discusses the dynamic challenges posed by battles to reshape election law.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023 8:00 am
The opposite of racist isnāt ānot racist.ā It is āantiracist.ā Whatās the difference?
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an antiracist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an antiracist. One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of ānot racist.ā
The Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights presents Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary, a podcast from the lecture series and associated course presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to an understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. The series is self-consciously an entry point, designed to provide intellectual and moral building blocks to begin the transformative work of anti-racism in our students, on our campus, and in our broader communities.
Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Rick Hasen, Professor of Law and Political Science and Director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law and author of Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy, discusses the dynamic challenges posed by battles to reshape election law.
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View EventMeet the Speaker: Rick Hasen
Professor Richard L. Hasen is an internationally recognized expert in election law, writing as well in the areas of legislation and statutory interpretation, remedies, and torts. He is co-author of leading casebooks in election law and remedies. Hasen served in 2020 as a CNN Election Law Analyst and as an NBC News/MSNBC Election Law Analyst in 2022. He directs UCLA Lawās Safeguarding Democracy Project.
From 2001-2010, he served (with Dan Lowenstein) as founding co-editor of the quarterly peer-reviewed publication, Election Law Journal. He is the author of over 100 articles on election law issues, published in numerous journals including the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Supreme Court Review. He was elected to The American Law Institute in 2009 and serves as Reporter (with Professor Douglas Laycock) on the ALIās law reform project: Restatement (Third) of Torts: Remedies. He also is an adviser on the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Concluding Provisions.
Professor Hasen was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by The National Law Journal in 2013, and one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California in 2005 and 2016 by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal.
His op-eds and commentaries have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Politico, and Slate. Hasen also writes the often-quoted Election Law Blog, which the ABA Journal named to its āBlawg 100 Hall of Fameā in 2015. The Green Bag recognized his 2018 book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, for exemplary legal writing, and his 2016 book, Plutocrats United, received a Scribes Book Award Honorable Mention. His 2022 book, Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politicsāand How to Cure It, was named one of the four best books on disinformation by the New York Times. His new book, A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy, will be published by Princeton University Press in February 2024.
Professor Hasen holds a B.A. degree (with highest honors) from UC Berkeley, and a J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. (Political Science) from UCLA. After law school, Hasen clerked for the Honorable David R. Thompson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then worked as a civil appellate lawyer at the Encino firm Horvitz and Levy.
From 1994-1997, Hasen taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and from 1998-2011 he taught at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he was named the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law in 2005. From 2011-2022, Hasen was Chancellorās Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and Co-Director of the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center. He was a visiting professor at UCLA Law twice before joining the faculty in 2022.
Recommended Resources
Rick Hasen recommends the following if you would like to learn more:
Maggie Haberman,Ā Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Dahlia Lithwick,Ā Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
Carol Anderson,Ā One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
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