Media Advisory: UC Irvine Election Law Expert Richard Hasen to Deliver Lecture on "The Voting Wars"

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IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 9, 2012 - UC Irvine School of Law will present a lecture by election law expert Prof. Rick Hasen.

WHEN: Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, 4:30 to 5:30 pm.

WHAT: Prof. Hasen, a nationally recognized expert on election law, will lecture on the subject of his new book, The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown, to be published this summer by Yale University Press. The book explores why nearly a dozen years after the controversial 2000 U.S. presidential election, the problems with how we run our elections are still not fixed. He argues that we are just one razor-thin presidential election away from chaos and an undermining of the rule of law.

WHO: Prof. Hasen blogs on his Election Law Blog, which is often quoted by the national media, and has written more than four dozen articles on election law. He also co-authored a leading casebook on election law, and was founding co-editor of the quarterly Election Law Journal. The lecture celebrates his newly endowed Chancellor's Chair, given only to a small number of faculty across the UC Irvine campus.

WHERE: UC Irvine School of Law, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine, CA 92697, Room EDU 1111. Directions and parking information.

REGISTRATION: The lecture is free and open to the public, with a reception to follow. Please RSVP online.

MEDIA CONTACT: Rex Bossert, Assistant Dean for Communications, rbossert@law.uci.edu, (949) 824-3063.

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