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Voting in America: How Campaign Finance and Election Laws Threaten Democracy

February 18, 2016

Leading election law scholars Edward B. Foley and Richard L. Hasen offer their critical take on how the structure of the American political system came to be. Judge Jeremy Fogel, Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and Director of the Federal Judicial Center, moderates.

Copies of Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States (Edward Foley) and Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections (Richard Hasen) were available for sale before and after the program.

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