Taking on one of the most urgent issues in American political and legal life, UCLA School of Law Professor Richard Hasen has launched the Safeguarding Democracy Project to focus on ensuring that elections in the U.S. remain free and fair.
Hasen, a renowned election scholar who joined the UCLA Law faculty this month — 31 years after earning his law degree here — assembled a diverse set of scholars and election law experts for the project. They are united by the desire to fend off threats to free elections posed by false claims that the last presidential election was stolen and the controversial election audits and legislative proposals that followed.
Project board members include UCLA professors Lynn Vavreck and Adam Winkler, noted election lawyers Ben Ginsburg and Floyd Abrams, University of Michigan law professor Leah Litman, retired federal appeals judge J. Michael Luttig and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund president Janai Nelson, who is a UCLA Law alumna.
The goal of the project is promote research, events and advocacy aimed at ensuring election integrity. Hasen answered questions about the project and his return to UCLA.
The advisory board for the project ranges from top UCLA faculty to prominent election law attorneys from both sides of the aisle. What is the shared sensibility that binds this group together?
The advisory board is diverse in every way — prominent liberals, conservatives, civil rights lawyers, political party lawyers, local and state election...
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