This webinar, recorded on September 21, 2020, covers international perspectives relevant to the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election.
Co-sponsored by The UCI Office of Global Engagement, UCI Law and the Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy, this webinar is intended as a resource for UCI faculty, staff and students and the general public.
Discussion topics include:
-Voting challenges in a pandemic
-Differences in how national elections are run in the U.S. compared to in Canada and Australia
-How elections could be improved with restructuring The event features discussion by international and UCI leaders and a question and answer session.
Speakers include:
Moderator – Victoria Jones, Chief Global Affairs Officer
-Rick Hasen, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law
-Yasmin Dawood, Canada Research Chair in Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Electoral Law, and Associate Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
-Graeme Orr, Professor – Law of Politics and Electoral Law, The University of Queensland, Australia