I am an Adjunct Professor of Law and the Director of Political Reform at a non-profit, non-partisan think-tank, which studies election laws and governance issues. My work focuses on campaign finance, ethics, ballot initiatives, redistricting, term limits, and state budgets.
I have appeared as an expert on television programs aired on NBC, ABC and the Fox News Network and radio programs aired on, among other stations, NPR, KNX and KFPK. I also regularly speak to members of the press about election law issues, including reporters for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Chronicle.
My publications include: The Constitutionality of Bans on Corporate Contributions to Candidates, 45 U.S.F. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2011). Timing Is Everything: A New Model for Countering Corruption Without Silencing Speech in Elections, 55 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (publication in early 2011), Is the Party Over? The Constitutionality of the Open Primary Process, __ LOY. L. REV. __ (Winter 2010), Ballot Box Budgeting in California: The Bane of the Golden State or an Overstated Problem? (co-author), 37 HASTINGS CONST. L.Q. 101 (Spring 2010), and Bite Your Tongue in Europe: The European Court of Human Rights Strikes a Blow to the Freedom of Expression, 26 LOY. L.A. INT'L & COMP. L. REV. 483 (2004).
I have appeared as an expert on television programs aired on NBC, ABC and the Fox News Network and radio programs aired on, among other stations, NPR, KNX and KFPK. I also regularly speak to members of the press about election law issues, including reporters for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Chronicle.
My publications include: The Constitutionality of Bans on Corporate Contributions to Candidates, 45 U.S.F. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2011). Timing Is Everything: A New Model for Countering Corruption Without Silencing Speech in Elections, 55 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (publication in early 2011), Is the Party Over? The Constitutionality of the Open Primary Process, __ LOY. L. REV. __ (Winter 2010), Ballot Box Budgeting in California: The Bane of the Golden State or an Overstated Problem? (co-author), 37 HASTINGS CONST. L.Q. 101 (Spring 2010), and Bite Your Tongue in Europe: The European Court of Human Rights Strikes a Blow to the Freedom of Expression, 26 LOY. L.A. INT'L & COMP. L. REV. 483 (2004).
The views expressed in these posts are solely my own.
