As the 2020 presidential campaign begins, two of America’s leading election law experts, Richard Hasen and Edward Foley, discuss how to fix presidential elections, in 2020 and beyond in an online program. Building on Foley’s Presidential Elections and Majority Rule: The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College and Hasen’s Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy, the two authors explore the history of the presidential election system, current challenges, and proposed remedies. Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Participants
- Richard Hasen is Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California Irvine, where he is also a member of the Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy. He is the founding co-editor of the quarterly peer-reviewed publication, Election Law Journal, and the founder and editor of the often-cited Election Law Blog. Hasen is the author of several books on law and politics, the most recent of which is: Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy.
- Edward Foley holds the Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law at The Ohio State University, where he also directs its election law program. He is the author of Presidential Elections and Majority Rule and Ballot Battles. In addition to his career in academia, Foley clerked for Chief Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Harry Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court. He has also served as State Solicitor in the office of Ohio’s Attorney General, where he was responsible for the state’s appellate and constitutional litigation.
- Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
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