Subject: academic commentary on Ackerman/Ayres book
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 4/23/2003, 9:29 AM
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Last year, Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres published a book calling for campaign finance vouchers and mandatory anonymity of some compaign contributions, Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance Reform (Yale University Press 2002). Volume 37, Number 4 (May 2003) of the University of Richmond Law Review features commentaries on the book from Kathy Abrams, Bruce Cain, Dan Farber, Beth Garrett, Rick Hasen, Ken Mayer, and Fred Wertheimer and Alextranda Edsall. (My commenary is posted here.) Ackerman and Ayres provide a response in the same issue.

The book has generated a great deal of attention. It is apparently the subject of another symposium in the California Law Review. A draft of Pam Karlan's article from that symposium is available for download here at SSRN. I do not know who else is in that symposium.

In addition, Lillian BeVier reviews the book at 112 Yale L.J. 1135 (2002), Guy Charles reviews the book at 2 Election L.J. 271 (2003), and Dan Lowenstein has a review forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review.

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