Daniel Hays Lowenstein

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Daniel Hays Lowenstein Professor of Law A.B. Yale, 1964 LL.B. Harvard, 1967 UCLA Law faculty since 1979 lowenste@law.ucla.edu

Daniel Lowenstein teaches Election Law, Statutory Interpretation & Legislative Process, Political Theory, and Law & Literature. A leading expert on election law, he has represented members of the House of Representatives in litigation regarding reapportionment and the constitutionality of term limits. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the award-winning theatre troupe Interact and regularly brings the company to the School of Law to perform plays with legal themes, such as Sophocles' Antigone, Ibsen's Rosmerholm, and Wouk's The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.

Professor Lowenstein worked as a staff attorney at California Rural Legal Assistance for two and one-half years. While working for California's Secretary of State, Edmund G. Brown Jr. in 1971, he specialized in election law, and was the main drafter of the Political Reform Act, an initiative statute that California voters approved in 1974, thereby creating a new Fair Political Practices Commission. Governor Brown appointed Professor Lowenstein as first chairman of the Commission. He has served on the national governing board of Common Cause and has been a board member and a vice president of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.

Professor Lowenstein's textbook, Election Law (1995), appears to be the first text on American election law since 1877. He has written on such topics as campaign finance, redistricting, bribery, initiative elections, political parties, commercial speech, and The Merchant of Venice.

For information on Interact, click on:

http://www.interactla.org/

Professor Lowenstein represented certain plaintiffs in California Prolife Council PAC v. Scully, challenging California regulations of slate mail. For a pdf file containing the March 1, 2001, order of U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton declaring these regulations unconstitutional, use the following link: /users/lowenstein/slatemailorder.pdf

Read Professor Lowenstein's 10/02/2003 Daily Journal article: "Valid Ballot - Panel Exploited Precedent to Rationalize Postponment of Recall Vote".