Richard L. Hasen

UC Irvine School of Law

Richard L. Hasen is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine School of Law and the author of The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption (Yale University Press 2018).

Richard L. Hasen's Articles

Election and Voting Law, Supreme Court

Supreme Court Avoids Bush v. Gore II in Ducking Pennsylvania Redistricting Controversy

March 22, 2018

After waiting, and waiting, and waiting, the United States Supreme Court finally answered the question whether it would heed Pennsylvania Republicans’ calls to put on hold the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s order redrawing the state’s congressional district lines to cure a partisan gerrymander. The answer was no, with no explanation. And in that silence the Court…

Election and Voting Law, State Law, Supreme Court

The Next Threat to Redistricting Reform

October 22, 2018

These are perilous times even for those who think that federal courts have no business messing with how state legislatures draw lines for legislative and congressional districts and that the issue is best left up to each state’s political system. Now that Justice Anthony Kennedy has left the stage, it is unlikely that the Court…