Annual Shakespeare Polaris Lecture

The second annual Shakespeare Polaris Lecture, sponsored by the 49th State Fellows Honors Program, will welcome the lecturer Daniel Lowenstein speaking on Measure for Measure, on March 8 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in RH 101.

Daniel Lowenstein teaches Election law, Statutory Interpretation and Legislative Process, Political Theory and Law and 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 theater 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 a 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 as written on such topics as campaign finance, redistricting, bribery, initiative elections, political parties, commercial speech and The Merchant of Venice.