Northwestern University School of Law

Lee Epstein

Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science

357 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611-3069

Phone 312.503.1838
Fax 312.503.2035
Epstein@northwestern.edu



Curriculum Vitae

Lee Epstein*
Northwestern University School of Law
357 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611-3069



312.503.1838 (phone)
312.503.2035 (fax)
lee-epstein@northwestern.edu
http://epstein.law.northwestern.edu

1   Recent Academic Appointments/Honorary Fellowships1

Henry Wade Rogers Professor   Northwestern University, 2008-
Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law   Northwestern University, 2006-08
Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor   Washington University, 1998-06
Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science   2004-
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences   2006-
    Courses, undergraduates: American Legal System, American Government, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Current Controversies on the Supreme Court, Defendants’ Rights, Interest Group Politics, Judicial Processes, Politics of Litigation, Research Design and Methods, U.S. Supreme Court
    Courses, Ph.D. students: American Political Institutions, Constitutional Interpretation, Judicial Politics, Law and Politics, U.S. Supreme Court
    Courses, J.D. students: Constitutional Courts, Constitutional Law, Law and Social Change, Law and Political Economy Colloquium, Law and Politics, Law in Social Science, Social-Scientific Research for Lawyers, U.S. Supreme Court
    Workshops: Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship,Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models: Modeling Judicial Politics, Social Science Research Methods, The U.S. Supreme Court Database

2   Research

2.1   Books

   EPSTEIN, LEE, JEFFREY A. SEGAL & HAROLD J. SPAETH (under contract). CASE SELECTION ON THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   EPSTEIN, LEE, JEFFREY A. SEGAL, HAROLD J. SPAETH, & THOMAS G. WALKER. 2007 (4th ed.). 2003 (3rd ed.). 1996 (2nd ed.). 1994 (1st ed.). THE SUPREME COURT COMPENDIUM: DATA, DECISIONS, AND DEVELOPMENTS. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
  • Named by CHOICE as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007.2
  • Recognized as an “Outstanding Academic Reference Book in Political Science, Published over the Past Five Years,” CHOICE, June 1998.
  • Listed as an Excellent Reference, 1995’s Best Research Tools, (Law), LINGUA FRANCA.
  • Listed in the American Association of Law Libraries, Best Legal Reference Books of 1994. 87 LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL 310 (1995), compiled by Linda Karr O’Connor.
  • Recipient of a “Special Recognition” honor, presented by the Law & Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 1994.
  • Recipient of an “Outstanding Academic Book Award,” presented by CHOICE, 1994.
  • Recipient of an “Honorable Mention” award presented by the Association of American Publishers, 1994.
   EPSTEIN, LEE & THOMAS G. WALKER. 2008 (4th ed., in press). 2005 (3rd ed.). 2000 (2nd ed.). 1996 (1st ed.). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW FOR A CHANGING AMERICA: A SHORT COURSE (with annual supplements and an electronic case archive). Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.
   EPSTEIN, LEE & THOMAS G. WALKER. 2007 (6th ed.). 2004 (5th ed.). 2001 (4th ed.) 1998 (3rd ed.). 1995 (2nd ed.). 1992 (1st ed.). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW FOR A CHANGING AMERICA: INSTITUTIONAL POWERS AND CONSTRAINTS (with annual supplements and an electronic case archive). Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.
   EPSTEIN, LEE & THOMAS G. WALKER. 2006 (6th ed.). 2004. (5th ed.). 2001 (4th ed.). 1998 (3rd ed.). 1995 (2nd ed.). 1992 (1st ed.). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW FOR A CHANGING AMERICA: RIGHTS, LIBERTIES, AND JUSTICE (with annual supplements and an electronic case archive). Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.
  • The CONSTITUTIONAL LAW FOR A CHANGING AMERICA books received the 2003 Teaching and Mentoring Award, which “recognizes innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in law and courts,” presented by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association and supported by a contribution from the Division for Public Education of the American Bar Association.
   EPSTEIN, LEE & JEFFREY A. SEGAL. 2005. ADVICE AND CONSENT: THE POLITICS OF JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Research findings discussed/described/reviewed on C-SPAN, BOOK TV, January 7, 2006; and in the NEW YORK TIMES, January 9, 2006, A16; CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, November 11, 2005; WALL STREET JOURNAL, October 28, A5; NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, October 24, 2005, 1; WASHINGTON POST, October 16, 2005, T04; SUFFOLK LAWYER, October 2005, 29; KANSAS CITY STAR SUN, October 9, 2005; CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, September 13, 2005; SLATE.COM, September 5, 2005; MSNBC.MSN.COM, September 5, 2005; SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, September 4, 2005, B1; THE AMERICAN PROSPECT, September 1, 2005, 37.
  • Chapter 5 summarized and partially excerpted in The Politics of Appointments Meets the Politics of Judging, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, July 24, 2005, B1.
   EPSTEIN, LEE, editor. 2005. COURTS AND JUDGES. Volume included in THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF ESSAYS IN LAW AND SOCIETY. Hampshire, England: Ashgate.
   MURPHY, WALTER F., C. HERMAN PRITCHETT, LEE EPSTEIN, & JACK KNIGHT. 2005 (6th ed.). 2002 (5th ed.). COURTS, JUDGES, & POLITICS. New York: McGraw-Hill.
   EPSTEIN, LEE & JACK KNIGHT. 1998. THE CHOICES JUSTICES MAKE. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.
  • Excerpted in CHOICES: AN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT READER. 2002. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.
  • Excerpted in Walter F. Murphy, C. Herman Pritchett, Lee Epstein, & Jack Knight. 2005 (6th ed.). 2002 (5th ed.). COURTS, JUDGES, & POLITICS. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Excerpted in Samuel Kernell and Steven S. Smith, eds. 2000 (1st ed.). 2003 (2nd ed). PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE IN AMERICAN POLITICS: CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY READINGS. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.
  • Subject of the Law and Courts Authors’ Meet Critics Roundtable , held at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, 1999.
  • Winner of the C. Herman Pritchett Award for the best book published on law and courts, presented by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 1998.
  • Subject of the Law and Courts Authors’ Meet Critics Roundtable, held at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1998.
  • Described in What 15 Top Political Scientists are Working on Now, CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, September 15, 1997.
   EPSTEIN, LEE, EDITOR. CONTEMPLATING COURTS. 1995. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.
   WALKER, THOMAS G. & LEE EPSTEIN. 1993. THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: AN INTRODUCTION. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
   EPSTEIN, LEE & JOSEPH F. KOBYLKA. 1992. THE SUPREME COURT AND LEGAL CHANGE: ABORTION AND THE DEATH PENALTY. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Selected to be transformed into an electronic version as part of the University of North Carolina’s agreement with netLibrary.com.
   EPSTEIN, LEE, TRACEY E. GEORGE, & JOSEPH F. KOBYLKA. 1992. PUBLIC INTEREST LAW SOURCEBOOK: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH GUIDE. NY: Garland Publishing.
   O’CONNOR, KAREN & LEE EPSTEIN. 1989. PUBLIC INTEREST LAW GROUPS. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
   EPSTEIN, LEE. 1985 (cloth). 1988 (paper). CONSERVATIVES IN COURT. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. (Revised version of my dissertation.)

2.2   Articles and Chapters

    Epstein, Lee & Tonja Jacobi (forthcoming). Super Medians. STANFORD LAW REVIEW.
    Epstein, Lee & Jeffrey A. Segal. 2009 (forthcoming). Nominating Federal Judges and Justices In THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, ed. George Edwards and William Howell. Oxford University Press.
    Epstein, Lee, Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn & Jeffrey A. Segal. 2008 (forthcoming). The Bush Imprint on the Supreme Court: Why Conservatives Should Continue to Yearn and Liberals Should Not Fear. TULSA LAW REVIEW. (Symposium)
    Epstein, Lee. 2008 (forthcoming). The U.S. Supreme Court. In THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LAW AND POLITICS, ed. Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen, and Gregory A. Caldeira. Oxford University Press.
    Ryan Owens & Lee Epstein 2008. (forthcoming). Interest Groups. In ENYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, ed. David S. Tanenhaus. Macmillan.
    Epstein, Lee, Barry Friedman & Nancy Staudt. 2008. On the Capacity of the Roberts Court to Generate Consequential Precedent. NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 86 (5): 1299-1332. (Symposium) (Revised version of a paper presented at the 2007 Symposium on Precedent and the Roberts Court.)
    Epstein, Lee, Jeffrey A. Segal & Chad Westerland. 2008. The Increasing Importance of Ideology in the Nomination and Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices. DRAKE LAW REVIEW 56: 609-635. (5th Annual American Judicature Society Symposium)
    Staudt, Nancy, Barry Friedman & Lee Epstein. 2008. On the Role of Ideological Homogeneity in Generating Consequential Constitutional Decisions. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 10 (2): 361-386. (Symposium) (Revised version of a paper presented at the 2007 Symposium on Positive Approaches to Constitutional Law and Theory.)
    Epstein, Lee, Kevin Quinn, Andrew D. Martin & Jeffrey A. Segal. 2008. On the Perils of Drawing Inferences about Supreme Court Justices from their First Few Years of Service. JUDICATURE 91 (4): 168-179.
    Epstein, Lee, Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn & Jeffrey A. Segal. 2007. Ideological Drift Among Supreme Court Justices: Who, When, and How Important? NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 101 (Fall): 1483-1542.
  • Research findings described in ABA JOURNAL, July 2007, 25-27; THE NEW REPUBLIC, June 18, 2007; the WALL STREET JOURNAL, June 12, 2007; TIME magazine, April 26, 2007, 57; the WASHINGTON POST, March 26, 2007, A13.
  • An abbreviated version of this paper appears in 101 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW COLLOQUY 127 (2007), followed by reflections from Stephen Burbank, Linda Greenhouse, and David Strauss.
    Black, Ryan & Lee Epstein. 2007. (Re-)Setting the Scholarly Agenda on Transjudicial Communication. LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY 32 (3):791-807.
    Epstein, Lee, Andrew D. Martin & Christina Boyd. 2007. On the Effective Communication of the Results of Empirical Studies, Part II . VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 60 (April): 798-846.
    Epstein, Lee, Andrew D. Martin, Jeffrey A. Segal, & Chad Westerland. 2007. The Judicial Common Space. JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS, & ORGANIZATION 23: 303-325. (Revised version of a paper presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the Law & Society Association and the 2005 Conference on Law and Positive Political Theory at Northwestern University School of Law.)
    Staudt, Nancy, Lee Epstein, & Peter Wiedenbeck. 2006. The Ideological Component of Judging in the Taxation Context. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 84 (7): 1797-1821 (Symposium). (Revised version of a paper presented at the 2006 Conference on Regulating Business: Beyond Doctrine at Washington University School of Law.)
    Epstein, Lee, Andrew D. Martin & Matthew Schneider. 2006. On the Effective Communication of the Results of Empirical Studies, Part I VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 59 (6): 1811-1871 (Symposium). (Revised version of a paper presented at the Vanderbilt University, School of Law, Conference on Empirical Scholarship, 2006.)
    Epstein, Lee & Jeffrey A. Segal. 2006. Trumping the First Amendment. JOURNAL OF LAW & POLICY 21: 81-121 (Symposium). (Revised version of a paper presented at the 2005 Conference on Rehnquist Court and the First Amendment at Washington University School of Law.)
    Epstein, Lee, Rene Lindstadt, Jeffrey A. Segal, & Chad Westerland. 2006. The Changing Dynamics of Senate Voting on Supreme Court Nominees. JOURNAL OF POLITICS 68 (2): 296-307.
  • Research findings described in the THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 4, 2005, A1.
    Baldez, Lisa, Lee Epstein, & Andrew D. Martin. 2006. Does the U.S. Constitution Need an ERA? JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 35 (January): 243-283.
    Staudt, Nancy, Lee Epstein, Peter J. Wiedenbeck, Rene Lindstadt, & Ryan J. Vander Wielen. 2005. Judging Statutes: Interpretive Regimes. LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW 38 (5): 1909-1970 (Symposium).
    Epstein, Lee, Jeffrey A. Segal, Nancy Staudt & Rene Lindstadt. 2005. The Role of Qualifications in the Confirmation of Nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court. FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 32 (4): 1145-1173 (Symposium).
    Owens, Ryan J. & Lee Epstein. 2005. Amici Curiae During the Rehnquist Years. JUDICATURE 89 (3): 127-133 (Symposium).
    Epstein, Lee, Daniel E. Ho, Gary King, & Jeffrey A. Segal. 2005. The Supreme Court During Crisis. NYU LAW REVIEW 80 (1): 1-116. (Revised version of papers presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, the 2004 Symposium on Fear and Risk Perception in Times of Democratic Crisis at the University of Missouri School of Law, and the 2003 Symposium on At War with Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at Florida International University School of Law.)
  • Winner of the McGraw-Hill Award for the the best journal article on law and courts written by a political scientist. Presented by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 2006.
  • “Honorable Mention” for the Law and Society Association Article Prize, awarded to “recognize exceptional scholarship in the field of sociolegal studies for an article published in the previous two years,” 2006. Presented by the Law & Society Association, 2006.
  • Winner of the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper delivered at the 2004 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Presented by the Midwest Political Science Association, 2005.
  • Winner of the Robert H. Durr Award for the best paper delivered at the 2004 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association “applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem.” Presented by the Midwest Political Science Association, 2005.
  • “Honorable Mention” for the American Judicature Society Award for the “best paper on law and courts presented at the previous year’s meetingsof the American, Midwest, Northeastern, Southern, Southwest, orWestern Political Science Associations.” Presented by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 2005.
  • To be excerpted in Samuel Kernell and Steven S. Smith, eds. 2006 (3rd ed). PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE IN AMERICAN POLITICS: CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY READINGS. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.
    Black, Ryan & Lee Epstein. 2005. Recusals and the “Problem” of an Equally Divided Supreme Court. JOURNAL OF APPELLATE PRACTICE AND PROCESS 7 (1): 75-99 (Symposium).
    Martin, Andrew D., Kevin Quinn, and Lee Epstein. 2005. The Median Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 83 (5): 1275-1322 (Symposium).
  • Research findings described in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, February 1, 2006, A4; WASHINGTON POST, November 1, 2004, A19; the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER, October 28, 2004, A11.
    WERL.3 2005. On Tournaments for Appointing Great Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 78 (November): 157-178 (Symposium).
    Epstein, Lee & Andrew D. Martin. 2005. Coding Variables. In THE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL MEASUREMENT, ed. Kimberly Kempf-Leonard. Academic Press.
    Epstein, Lee, Andrew D. Martin, Lisa Baldez, & Tasina Nitzschke. 2004. Constitutional Sex Discrimination TENNESSEE JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY 1 (1): 11-68 (Inaugural issue of the journal).
    Epstein, Lee. 2004. Forecasting Supreme Court Decisions: Introduction. PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS 2 (4): 757-759.
    Epstein, Lee, Jack Knight, & Andrew Martin. 2004. Constitutional Interpretation from a Strategic Perspective. In MAKING POLICY, MAKING LAW: AN INTERBRANCH PERSPECTIVE, ed. Mark Miller & Jeb Barnes. Georgetown University Press.
    Epstein, Lee & Jack Knight. 2004. Courts and Judges. In THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO LAW AND SOCIETY, ed. Austin Sarat. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
    Epstein, Lee and Jack Knight. 2004. Building the Bridge from Both Sides of the River: Law and Society and Rational Choice. LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW 38: 207-212.
    Knight, Jack & Lee Epstein. 2004. Institutionalizing Constitutional Democracy: A Strategic Analysis of the Role of Courts. In POLITICS FROM ANARCHY TO DEMOCRACY, ed., I. Morris J. Oppenheimer & K.E. Soltan. Stanford University Press.
    Epstein, Lee & Andrew D. Martin. 2004. Does Age (Really) Matter? A Response to Manning, Carroll, and Carp. SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY 85 (1): 19-30.
    Epstein, Lee & Gary King. 2003. Building an Infrastructure for Empirical Research in Law. JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION 53 (3): 311-320 (with commentary from law school deans).
    Epstein, Lee, Nancy Staudt, & Peter Wiedenbeck. 2003. Judging Statutes: Thoughts on Statutory Interpretation and Notes for a Project on the Internal Revenue Code. JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 35 : 305-333. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 2002 annual Workshop on Empirical Taxation.) (Symposium.)
    Epstein, Lee, Jack Knight, & Andrew Martin. 2003. The Norm of Prior Judicial Experience and Its Consequences for Career Diversity on the U.S. Supreme Court. CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 91 (4): 903-966.
  • Research findings described in THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, July 25, 2005, Vol. 27, p. 1.
    Epstein, Lee, Jack Knight, & Andrew Martin. 2003. Childress Lecture Symposium: The Political (Science) Context of Judging. ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL 47 (3): 783-817. (Symposium.)
    Epstein, Lee & Jack Knight. 2003. Constitutional Borrowing and Nonborrowing. I•CON, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (NYU School of Law) 1 (2):196-223. (Symposium.)
    Epstein, Lee & Jack Knight. 2003. Walter F. Murphy. In PIONEERS OF JUDICIAL BEHAVIOR, ed. Nancy Maveety. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
    Epstein, Lee & Lynn Mather. 2003. Beverly Blair Cook. In PIONEERS OF JUDICIAL BEHAVIOR, ed. Nancy Maveety. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
    Epstein, Lee, Jeffrey A. Segal, & Jennifer Nicoll Victor. 2002. Dynamic Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court: An Empirical Assessment. HARVARD JOURNAL ON LEGISLATION 39 (2): 395-433. (Revised version of papers presented at the 1997 meeting of the Conference Group on the Scientific Study of Judicial Politics and the 1997 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.)
    Epstein, Lee & Gary King. 2002. The Rules of Inference. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 69 (1): 1-133 and Epstein, Lee & Gary King. 2002. Empirical Research and the Goals of Legal Scholarship: A Response. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 69 (1): 191-209.
  • Translated into Chinese and published in 2004. JOURNAL OF LEGAL METHODS.
  • Described in THE BOSTON GLOBE, November 21, 2004, K5.
  • Subject of a symposium in 2003. JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION 53 (3). (Infrastructure discussion in Section IX.)
  • Subject of a symposium in 2002. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 69 (1).
    Epstein, Lee & Olga Shvetsova. 2002. Heresthetical Maneuvering on the U.S. Supreme Court. JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL POLITICS 14 (1): 93-122.
  • Translated into Spanish for publication in the Mexico Supreme Court of Justice’s CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS AND DEMOCRACY.
    Epstein, Lee, Jack Knight, & Olga Shvetsova. 2002. The Role of Constitutional Courts in the Establishment and Maintenance of Democratic Systems of Government. LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW 35 (1): 117-164. (Revised version of a paper presented at the 2000 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.)
    Epstein, Lee. Foreword. 2002 (2nd ed.). 2000 (1st ed.). In THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS, ed. by David Ryden. Georgetown University Press.
    Epstein, Lee, Jack Knight, & Olga Shvetsova. 2002. Selecting Selection Systems. In JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AT THE CROSSROADS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, ed. Stephen B. Burbank & Barry Friedman. American Academy of Political and Social Science/Sage Publications. (Revised version of a paper presented at the 2000 meeting of the Conference Group on the Scientific Study of Judicial Politics.)
    Epstein, Lee & Jack Knight. 2002. The Strategic John Marshall (and Thomas Jefferson). In MARBURY VERSUS MADISON: DOCUMENTS AND COMMENTARY, ed. Mark A. Graber & Michael Perhac. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
    Epstein, Lee, Jack Knight, & Olga Shvetsova. 2001. Comparing Judicial Selection Systems. WILLIAM & MARY BILL OF RIGHTS LAW JOURNAL 10 (1):7-36. (Symposium.) (Revised version of a paper presented at the 2001 Conference on Constitutional Courts at Washington University School of Law.)
    Epstein, Lee, Jack Knight, & Andrew Martin. 2001. The Supreme Court as a Strategic National Policy Maker. EMORY LAW JOURNAL 50 (2): 583-611. (Symposium.)
    Epstein, Lee & Jack Knight. 2001. Piercing the Veil: Justice William J. Brennan’s Account of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. YALE LAW AND POLICY REVIEW 19 (2): 341-379.
    Epstein, Lee, Jeffrey A. Segal, & Harold J. Spaeth. 2001. The Norm of Consensus on the U.S. Supreme Court. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 45 (2): 362-377.
    Epstein, Lee & Jack Knight. 2000. Field Essay: Toward a Strategic Revolution in Judicial Politics: A Look Back, A Look Ahead. POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY 53 (3): 625-661. (Revised version of a paper presented at the 1995 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.)
    Epstein, Lee. 2000. Introduction: Symposium on Social Science, the Courts, and Law. JUDICATURE 83 (5): 224-227.
    Epstein, Lee & Jeffrey A. Segal. 2000. Measuring Issue Salience. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 44 (1): 66-83.
    Epstein, Lee. Foreword. 2000. In CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS: A SOCIAL CHOICE ANALYSIS OF SUPREME COURT DECISION MAKING, written by Maxwell L. Stearns. University of Michigan Press.
    Epstein, Lee & Jack Knight. 1999. Mapping Out the Strategic Terrain: The Informational Role of Amici Curiae. In INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES TO SUPREME COURT DECISION MAKING, ed. Cornell Clayton & Howard Gillman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    Epstein, Lee, Valerie Hoekstra, Jeffrey A. Segal, & Harold J. Spaeth. 1998. Do Political Preferences Change? A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Supreme Court Justices. JOURNAL OF POLITICS 60 (3): 801-818. (Revised version of a paper presented at the 1995 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.)
    Djupe, Paul A. & Lee Epstein. 1998. From Schubert’s The Judicial Mind to Spaeth’s U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Data Base. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 42 (3): 1012-1019.
    Epstein, Lee, Jeffrey A. Segal, & Timothy Johnson. 1996. The Claim of Issue Creation on the U.S. Supreme Court. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 90 (4): 845-852.
    Knight, Jack & Lee Epstein. 1996. The Norm of Stare Decisis. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. 40 (4): 1018-1035.
  • Excerpted in Walter F. Murphy, C. Herman Pritchett, Lee Epstein, & Jack Knight. 2005 (6th ed.). 2002 (5th ed.). COURTS, JUDGES, & POLITICS. New York: McGraw-Hill.
    Knight, Jack & Lee Epstein. 1996. On the Struggle for Judicial Supremacy. LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW 30 (1): 87-130.
    Epstein, Lee & Thomas G. Walker. 1996. Positive Political Theory and the Study of U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making: Understanding the Sex Discrimination Cases. NEW YORK CITY LAW REVIEW 1 (1): 155-201. (Inaugural issue of the journal.)
    Epstein, Lee & Carol Mershon. 1996. Measuring Political Preferences. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 40 (1): 261-294.
    Epstein, Lee. 1996. Beverly Blair Cook. In WOMEN IN LAW, ed. Rebecca Mae Salokar & Mary Volcansek. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
    Epstein, Lee, Joseph F. Kobylka, & Joseph F. Stewart, Jr. 1995. A Theory of Interest Groups and Litigation. In RESEARCH IN LAW AND POLICY STUDIES, ed. Stuart Nagel. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1987 annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association.)
    Epstein, Lee. 1995. Studying Law and Courts. In CONTEMPLATING COURTS, ed. Lee Epstein. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
    Epstein, Lee & Thomas G. Walker. 1995. The Role of the Court in American Society: Playing the Reconstruction Game. In CONTEMPLATING COURTS, ed. Lee Epstein. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
    Segal, Jeffrey A., Lee Epstein, Harold J. Spaeth, & Charles Cameron. 1995. Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Revisited. JOURNAL OF POLITICS 57 (3): 812-823 (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1994 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.)
    Epstein, Lee. 1994. Exploring the Participation of Organized Interests in State Court Litigation. POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY 47 (2): 335-351. (Revised version of papers delivered at the 1992 annual meeting of the Law and Society Association and the 1989 annual meeting of the Southwest Political Science Association.)
    Epstein, Lee. 1993. Interest Group Litigation During the Rehnquist Court Era. JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLITICS (University of Virginia School of Law) 9 (4): 639-717. (Symposium.)
    George, Tracey E. & Lee Epstein. 1992. On the Nature of Supreme Court Decision Making. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 86 (3): 323-337. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1991 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.)
  • Listed in 1999. The Top 25 American Political Science Review Articles Most Frequently Downloaded from JSTOR, PS, (September): 654.
  • Reprinted in Alan Ware, ed. 1995. THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF POLITICS AND COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT, VOLUME 1. Hampshire, UK: Ashgate.
  • Reprinted in Kermit Hall, ed. 1995. EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW: THE SUPREME COURT IN AMERICAN LIFE. New York: Carlson.
    Main, Eleanor, Lee Epstein, & Debra Elovich. 1992. Interest Groups in Georgia. In INTEREST GROUPS IN THE SOUTH, ed. Clive Thomas & Ronald Hrebenar. University of Alabama Press. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1986 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.)
    Epstein, Lee. 1991. Courts and Interest Groups. In THE AMERICAN COURTS: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT, ed. Charles Johnson & John Gates. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
    George, Tracey & Lee Epstein. 1991 Women’s Rights Litigation in the 1980s: More of the Same? JUDICATURE 74 (April/May): 314-321.
    Epstein, Lee & C.K. Rowland. 1991. Debunking the Myth of Interest Group Invincibility in the Courts. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 85 (1): 205-217. (Revised version of papers delivered at the 1989 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association and at the 1988 annual meeting of the Law & Society Association.)
    Epstein, Lee & Charles D. Hadley. 1990. On the Treatment of Political Parties in the U.S. Supreme Court, 1900-1986. JOURNAL OF POLITICS 52 (2): 413-432. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1987 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.)
    Epstein, Lee. 1990. Interviewing U.S. Supreme Court Justices and Interest Group Attorneys. JUDICATURE 73 (December): 196-198. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1986 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.)
    Epstein, Lee, Thomas Walker, & William J. Dixon. 1989. The Supreme Court and Criminal Justice Disputes: A Neo-Institutional Perspective. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 33 (4): 825-841. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1987 meeting of the American Political Science Association.)
    Epstein, Lee & Karen O’Connor. 1988. States and the Supreme Court: An Examination of Litigation Outcomes. SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY 68 (3): 660-674. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1985 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.)
    Walker, Thomas, Lee Epstein, & William J. Dixon. 1988. On the Mysterious Demise of Consensual Norms in the United States Supreme Court. JOURNAL OF POLITICS 50 (2): 361-389.
  • Reprinted in Kermit Hall, ed. 1995. EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW: THE SUPREME COURT IN AMERICAN LIFE. New York: Carlson.
    Epstein, Lee & Karen O’Connor. 1987. States before the U.S. Supreme Court: Direct Representation in Cases involving Criminal Rights. JUDICATURE 70: 305-306. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1983 meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association.)
  • Reprinted in Elliot Slotnick, ed. 1992. JUDICIAL POLITICS: READINGS FROM JUDICATURE. Chicago, IL: American Judicature Society.
    Epstein, Lee, Karen O’Connor, & Diana Grub. 1986. Legal Systems of the Middle East: The Cases of Israel and Egypt. In LEGAL TRADITIONS AND SYSTEMS, ed. Alan Katz. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
    Epstein, Lee & C.K. Rowland. 1986. Interest Groups in Court: Do Interest Groups Fare Better? In INTEREST GROUP POLITICS (2nd ed.) Allen Cigler and Burdett Loomis. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
    O’Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1985. Bridging the Gap between Congress and the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and the Erosion of the American Rule Governing Awards of Attorneys Fees. WESTERN POLITICAL QUARTERLY 38 (2): 238-249. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1983 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.)
    O’Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1985. The Reagan Administration and Abortion Policy. In THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS, ed. Tinsley E. Yarbrough. New York: Praeger. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1984 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.)
    O’Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1984. Rebalancing the Scales of Justice: An Assessment of Public Interest Law. HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 4 (2): 483-505. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1983 annual meeting of the Law & Society Association.)
    O’Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1984. The Role of Interest Groups in Supreme Court Policy Formation. In PUBLIC POLICY FORMATION, ed. Robert Eyestone. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1983 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.)
    O’Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1984. A Legal Voice for the Chicano Community: The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, 1968-1982. SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY 65 (2): 245-256.
  • Reprinted in Rudolfo de la Garza et al., eds. 1985. THE MEXICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. University of Texas Press.
  • Reprinted in F. Chris Garcia, ed. 1989. LATINOS AND THE POLITICAL SYSTEM. Notre Dame University Press
    O’Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1983. Beyond Legislative Lobbying: Women’s Rights Groups and the Supreme Court. JUDICATURE 67:134-143.
  • Reprinted in Elliot Slotnick, ed. 1992. JUDICIAL POLITICS: READINGS FROM JUDICATURE. Chicago, IL: American Judicature Society.
  • Reprinted in Kermit Hall, ed. 1995. EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW: THE SUPREME COURT IN AMERICAN LIFE. New York: Carlson.
    O’Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1983. Sex and the Supreme Court: An Analysis of Support for Gender-Based Claims. SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY 64 (2): 327-331.
    O’Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1983. The Rise of Conservative Interest Group Litigation. JOURNAL OF POLITICS 45 (2): 479-489. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1982 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.)
  • Reprinted in Sheldon Goldman and Austin Sarat, eds. 1988 (2nd ed.). AMERICAN COURT SYSTEMS. W.H. Freeman and Co.
    O’Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1983. Court Rules and Workload: A Case Study of Rules Governing Amicus Curiae Participation. JUSTICE SYSTEM JOURNAL 8 (1): 35-45. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1982 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.)
    O’Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1982. The Importance of Interest Group Involvement in Employment Discrimination Litigation. HOWARD LAW JOURNAL 23 (4): 301-321. (Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1981 annual meeting of the Law & Society Association.)
    O’Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1981. Amicus Curiae Participation in U.S. Supreme Court Litigation: An Appraisal of “Hakman’s Folklore”. LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW 16 (4): 311-320.
  • Reprinted in Henry Glick, ed. 1990. COURTS IN AMERICAN POLITICS. McGraw-Hill.

2.3   Published Book Reviews

   STRATEGIC SELECTION: PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICES FROM HERBERT HOOVER THROUGH GEORGE W. BUSH, by Christine L. Nemacheck. POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY 122 (2007-08): 664-665.
    “Who Shall Interpret the Constitution”: A Review of CONGRESS AND THE CONSTITUTION, edited by Neal Devins and Keith E. Whittington. TEXAS LAW REVIEW 84 (5) (2006): 1307-1315.
   GREED, CHAOS, AND GOVERNANCE: USING PUBLIC CHOICE TO IMPROVE PUBLIC LAW, by Jerry L. Mashaw. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 92 (1998):205
   PUBLIC CHOICE AND PUBLIC LAW, by Maxwell L. Stearns. LAW AND POLITICS BOOK REVIEW 7 (1997): 359-360.
   BATTLES ON THE BENCH, by Phillip J. Cooper. LAW AND POLITICS BOOK REVIEW 6 (1996):23-26.
   PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE CONSTITUTION, by Dennis J. Coyle. LAW AND POLITICS BOOK REVIEW 3 (1993):105-108.
   THE SUPREME COURT AND PARTISAN REALIGNMENT, by John B. Gates and THE JUDICIAL RESPONSE TO THE NEW DEAL, by Richard A. Maidment. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 87 (1993): 792-793.
   THE POOR IN COURT, by Susan Lawrence. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 86 (1991): 245-246
   THE HOLLOW HOPE, by Gerald Rosenberg. LAW AND POLITICS BOOK REVIEW (1991):138-142.
   IN DEFENSE OF AMERICAN LIBERTIES, by Samuel Walker. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 85 (1991): 251-252.
   PACKING THE COURTS, by Herman Schwartz. PRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY 20 (1990): 855-857.
   JUDICIAL REVIEW AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, by Albert Melone and George Mace. PRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY 20 (1990): 846-848.
   A MOB INTENT ON DEATH: THE NAACP AND THE ARKANSAS RIOT CASES, by Richard C. Cortner. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 84 (1990): 296-297.
   JUDGES AND LEGISLATORS: TOWARD INSTITUTIONAL COMITY, by Robert Katzman, editor. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 83 (1989):1387-1388.

2.4   Short Pieces

    Epstein, Lee, Jeffrey A. Segal & Harold J. Spaeth. 2008. The Blackmun Digital Archive LAW AND COURTS (Spring) 28-30.
    Epstein, Lee, Nancy Staudt, Thomas G. Walker, Jason Roberts & Scott Hendrickson. 2007. The U.S. Supreme Court Justices Database LAW AND COURTS (Spring): 14-15.
    Epstein, Lee & Andrew D. Martin. 2007. Statistical Inference. In ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW & SOCIETY, ed. David C. Clark. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
    Owens, Ryan & Lee Epstein. 2007. Judicial Decision Making. In ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW & SOCIETY, ed. David C. Clark. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
    Gibson, Tobias & Lee Epstein. 2007. Judicial Selection. In ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW & SOCIETY, ed. David C. Clark. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
    Epstein, Lee & Jeffrey A. Segal. 2005. Changing Room: The Court’s Dynamics Have a Way of Altering a Justice’s Approach to the Law. THE WASHINGTON POST, 20 November: B01.
    Martin, Andrew D., Kevin M. Quinn, & Lee Epstein. 2005. The “Rehnquist” Court (?) LAW AND COURTS (Spring): 18-23. (Symposium.)
    Epstein, Lee. 2003. The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited: Introduction. LAW AND COURTS (Summer): 10-11. (Symposium.)
    Epstein, Lee. 2001. Gregg v. Georgia (1976). In THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN LAW, ed. Kermit L. Hall, et al. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Epstein, Lee. 2000. Professional Development. LAW AND COURTS 10 (Spring): 1,3.
    Epstein, Lee. 2000. Looking Back, Looking Ahead. LAW AND COURTS 10 (Summer):1, 3-4.
    Epstein, Lee. 1999. The Comparative Advantage. LAW AND COURTS 9 (Winter): 1-6.
    Epstein, Lee & Jack Knight. 1997. The New Institutionalism, Part II. LAW AND COURTS 7 (Spring): 4-9.
    Epstein, Lee. 1992. A Better Way to Appoint Justices. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, 17 March.
  • To be reprinted in Susan Low Bloch, Vicki Jackson & Tom Krattenmaker, eds. 2007. INSIDE THE SUPREME COURT: THE INSTITUTION AND ITS PROCEDURES. West Publishing.
  • Reprinted in Vicki C. Jackson & Mark Tushnet. 1999. COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS. New York: Foundation Press.
  • Reprinted in Susan Low Bloch & Tom Krattenmaker, eds. SUPREME COURT POLITICS: THE INSTITUTION AND ITS PROCEDURES. West Publishing.
  • Reprinted in Spring 1992. In the WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
  • Reprinted on March 23, 1992. In the SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE.

2.5   Research Grants

2.5.1   External Research Grants

    National Science Foundation (Political Science, Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics), SES-0751966, 2008-2009
    National Science Foundation (Law & Social Sciences), Supplement to SES-0450934, 2005-2008
   National Science Foundation (Law & Social Sciences), SES-0450934, 2005-2008
   National Science Foundation (Law & Social Sciences), SGER-0440870, 2004
   National Science Foundation (Law & Social Sciences), SES- 0241418, 2003-04
   National Science Foundation (Law & Social Sciences), SES-0079963, 2000-03
    National Science Foundation (Political Science, Support for Ph.D. student), SBR-9709926, 1997-98
    National Science Foundation (Law & Social Sciences), SBR-9614130, 1997-2001
    National Science Foundation (Law & Social Sciences), SBR-9631256, 1996-2000
    National Science Foundation (Political Science), SBR-9511560, 1995-99
    National Science Foundation (Law & Social Sciences; Political Science), SBR-9320284, 1994-98
    National Science Foundation (Law & Social Sciences), SES-9024640, 1991-94
    National Science Foundation (Law & Social Sciences) RUE supplement to SES-9024640, 1991-94
    Earhart Foundation, 1988-89

2.5.2   Internal Research Grants

    Weidenbaum Center, Washington University, 2002
    Israel Treiman Faculty Fellowship, Washington University School of Law, 2001-02
    Center for New Institutional Social Science (with Olga Shvetsova), Washington University, 2000-2001
    Business, Law, and Economics Center, Washington University, 1992-1993
    Southern Methodist University, 1990, 1987

3   Education

B.A.       Emory University, Political Science, Sociology (with High Honors), 1980
M.A.   Emory University, Political Science, 1982
Ph.D.   Emory University, Political Science, 1983

4   Professional Activities

4.1   Service

    American Academy of Political and Social Science —Board of Directors, member, 2007-
    American Judicature Society — Board of Directors, member, 1998-2004; Nominating Committee, member, 1999-2001; Membership Committee, member, 1999-2001
    American Political Science Association — Development Committee, member, 2005-07; Corwin Award Committee, chair, 2001-02; Committee to Select the Best Political Science Publication in the Field of U.S. National Policy, member, 1999-00; Program Committee, member (Law and Courts Section), 1997, 1993; Committee on Organized Sections, chair, 1998-99, member, 1995-1997
    American Political Science Association, Law and Courts Section — Lifetime Achievement Award Committee, member, 2007-08; Nominations Committee, chair, 2006-07; Ad Hoc Committee on Mentoring, member, 2005-06 ; Chair, 1999-00; Chair-elect, 1998-99; Executive Committee, member, 1996-98; Awards Committee, chair, 1998, 1992; LAW AND COURTS, columnist, 1996-98; Short Course, co-convenor, 1993, participant, 2001, 2000, 1995, 1992; Nominations Committee, member, 1990
    Association of American Law Schools, Section on Law and Social Sciences —Executive Committee, member, 2007-08
    Conference Group on the Scientific Study of Judicial Politics —Conference Organizer, 1996
    Institute for Law and Politics, University of Minnesota —Advisory Board, member, 2007-
    Law & Society Association —Committee on Membership, chair, 2007- ; member, 2005-06; Program Planning Committee (2005 meeting), member, 2004-05; Minority Fellowship Advisory Board, member, 2004- ; Didactic Workshop Committee, member, 2003-04; Jacobs Book Award Committee, member, 2003; Publications Committee, member, 2001-03; Board of Trustees, member, 2000-03; Graduate Student Workshop, faculty facilitator, 1997, 1995, 1994; Summer Institute, participant, 2001
    Law School Admission Council —Grants Subcommittee, chair, 2008- ; member, 2005-08
    Midwest Political Science Association —Program Co-Chair, 2009; Ad Hoc Committee on Journals, member, 2005-06 ; President, 2002-03; President-Elect, 2001-02; Committee to Select a New Press for the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, member, 2001; Committee to Select the E-AJPS Editor, member, 2000-; Committee to Select the New Executive Director, member, 2000; Journal Committee, chair, 1999-00; Program Chair, 1998; Publications Committee, member, 1998-99; Nominating Committee, chair, 1994-95; Nominating Committee, member, 1993-94; Executive Council, member, 1992-95
    National Science Foundation — Committee of Visitors, 2008; Political Science Workshop on Infrastructure, Participant, 1999; Law and Social Sciences Program Advisory Panel, member, 1994-96; Project on the Supreme Court Board of Overseers, member, 1987-96
    Southern Political Science Association — Committee to Select the Editor of the JOURNAL OF POLITICS, member, 1998-99; Committee to Select the Best Conference Paper, chair, 1996; Executive Council, member, 1994- ; V. O. Key Book Award Committee, member, 1993-94; Investment Committee, chair, 1992-93; Membership Committee, member, 1985-1990; Program Committee (Law and Courts section), member, 1989
    Southwestern Political Science Association — Committee to Select the Best Conference Paper, member, 1987
    Women’s Caucus for Political Science — Nominations Committee, member, 1999; Mentoring Panel, participant, 1999

4.2   Conference Participation4

    American Political Science Association —Discussant, 2007 (Women & Politics pre-conference), 2002, 2001, 1992, 1989; Panel/Roundtable Chair, 2005, 2004, 2000, 1997, 1994, 1991, 1986; Roundtable Participant, 2008 (scheduled), 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1994, 1993, 1988; Paper Presenter, 2008,2000,1995,1990,1987,1984,1983
    Association of American Law Schools —Constitutional Law, Roundtable participant, 2008; National meeting: Roundtable participant, 2008, 2007; Plenary Session Participant, 2006.
    Conference on Empirical Legal Studies —Discussant, 2006; Paper Presenter, 2007,2006; Panel Chair, 2007, 2006
    Law & Society Association — Discussant, 1997, 1988; Panel Chair, 1997, 1989; Paper Presenter, 2007,2004,2002,1992,1989,1988,1984,1983,1981; Roundtable participant, 2004, 2002
    Midwest Political Science Association — Discussant, 2002, 2001, 1999, 1996, 1989, 1988; Panel Chair, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1986; Paper Presenter, 2007,2006,2004,2000,1997,1995,1994,1993,1992,1991,1990,1989,1987,1984,1983,1982,1981;Roundtable Participant, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2000, 1998
    Northeastern Political Science Association — Paper Presenter, 1983
    Southern Political Science Association — Discussant, 1998, 1987, 1984; Panel Chair, 1996, 1987; Roundtable Participant, 1999, 1998, 1995, 1990, 1986; Paper Presenter, 1986,1986,1985,1982,1981
    Southwestern Political Science Association — Paper Presenter, 1989,1987; Roundtable Participant, 1988

5   Editorial Responsibilities

5.1   Editor/Editorial Boards/Web

    Associate Editor— LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW, 1998-00
    Co-Editor— JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS & ORGANIZATION, 2007-
    Editor—
    Editorial & Advisory Boards (member)—
  • AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2001-06 ; 1991-1993
  • AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 1992-1995
  • AMERICAN POLITICS RESEARCH (formerly AMERICAN POLITICS QUARTERLY), 2001-
  • ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, 2007-
  • I•CON: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (NYU Law School), 2001-
  • JOURNAL OF POLITICS, 1993-1997
  • LAW AND COURTS, 2005-07
  • LAW AND COURTS SSRN, 2005-
  • LAW & COURTS PSN, 2007-
  • LAW & POLICY, 2008-
  • LAW AND POLITICS BOOK REVIEW, 1992-99
  • LAW AND POSITIVE POLITICAL THEORY ABSTRACTING JOURNAL, 2005-
  • LAW AND SOCIAL INQUIRY (Journal of the American Bar Foundation), 2001-05
  • LAW AND SOCIETY REVIEW, 2000-07; 1995-98
  • POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY (formerly WESTERN POLITICAL QUARTERLY), 1992-96
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY, 1994-
    Blogger—Balkinization, 2007-
    Web Master— American Political Science Association, Law and Courts Section, 1997-2002

5.2   Manuscript Reviews

    Article-Length Manuscript Reviews— AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE; AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW; AMERICAN POLITICS QUARTERLY; AMERICAN REVIEW OF POLITICS; COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES, COMPARATIVE POLITICS; CONGRESS & THE PRESIDENCY; EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH; INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF LAW AND ECONOMICS; JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES; JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLITICS, POLICY, AND LAW; JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS & ORGANIZATION; JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL POLITICS; JOURNAL OF POLITICS; JOURNAL OF WOMEN, POLITICS, & POLICY; JUDICATURE; JURIMETRICS: THE JOURNAL OF LAW, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY; JUSTICE SYSTEM JOURNAL; LAW & POLICY; LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY; LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW; LEGISLATIVE STUDIES QUARTERLY; PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS; POLITICAL BEHAVIOR; POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY; POLITICS & POLICY; POLITY; PS: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND POLITICS; PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY; SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL; SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY, SOUTHEASTERN POLITICAL REVIEW, SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW
    Book-Length Manuscript/Proposal Reviews— Blackwell Publishing; Cambridge University Press; CQ Press; Duke University Press; John Wiley; Holt, Rinehart, and Winston; Houghton-Mifflin; Northwestern University Press; Oxford University Press; Prentice Hall; Princeton University Press; Routledge, Taylor & Francis; Sage Publications; St. Martin’s; University of Chicago Press; University of Michigan Press; University Press of Kansas; University Press of Virginia; University of Tennessee Press; Westview Press; Yale University Press
    Grant Proposal Reviews— American Judicature Society; Earhart Foundation; Law School Admissions Council; National Science Foundation (Instrumentation, Political Science, Law and Social Science, Sociology), Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy

6   University Activities

6.1   Northwestern University

    Presidential Search Committee’member, 2008-09
    Personnel Committee—chair, 2007-08
    Entry Level Personnel Committee—member, 2006-07
    J.D./Ph.D. Program Development—member, 2006-07
    Legal Studies Faculty Advisory Board—member, 2007-

6.2   Washington University

6.2.1   Department (Political Science)

    Department Chair— 2002-03, 1995-99
    Graduate Program, acting director— 1994-95
    Graduate Student Admissions Committee— chair, 1995; member, 1993, 1994
    Political Science Discussion Series— chair, 1994-95
    Recruitment Committees— member, 2005-06; chair, 2004-05, 2003-04, 1996-97, 1993-94, 1999-00; member, 1991-92, 1992-93, 2002-03
    Strategic Planning Committee— member, 2004-05; chair, 1993

6.2.2   Arts & Sciences

    Search Committees— chair, 2003-04 (Women’s Studies/Political Science); member, 2002-03 (Applied Statistics Program); member, 2002-03 (Center for New Institutional Social Science); member, 2001-02 (Education Department); chair, 1998-1999; (Women’s Studies/Political Science); member, 1997-98 (African & Afro-American Studies Program)
    Academic Planning Committee for Arts and Sciences— member, 2001-05
    Dean’s Initiative on the External Review of Departments, Department Review Coordinator, 2000-05
    International and Area Studies Program, Executive Committee— member, 2002-03
    Review Committee on Faculty Personnel Procedures— member, 1998-01
    Faculty Research Grants Committee— member, 1996-98
    Dean’s Advisory Committee on Tenure, Promotion, and Personnel— vice-chair, 1996-97; member, 1994-96
    Dean’s Committee on Graduate Students’ Rights and Responsibilities— member, 1994-95
   STUDENT LIFE— contributor, 1995
    Board of College Advisors— member, 1993-95
    Faculty Selection Committee for the Lien Scholarship— member, 2000, 1994, 1993, 1992
    LAUNCH (Freshman Camp)— workshop leader, 1993, 1992

6.2.3   School of Law

    Center for Interdisciplinary Studies— Advisory Board, member, 1999-06
    Institute for Global Legal Studies— Advisory Board, member, 2000-06 ; Co-organizer of the Conference on Constitutional Courts, 2001
    Chancellor’s Advisory Committee to Select a Dean of the Law School— member, 1997-99

6.2.4   University

    Academic Freedom and Tenure Hearing Committee— member, 2002
    Senate Council Committee on Gender Pay Equity— member, 1997-02
    Association of Women Faculty’s Committee on Tenure and Promotion— co-author of the final report, 1999 (covered in the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, November 24, 1999, B1); member, 1997-99
    Board of Trustees Honorary Degree Committee— member, 1996-97
    Assembly Series Committee— member, 1992-95
    Book Store Policy Committee— member, 1992-95
    Chancellor’s Symposium, section on Undergraduate Education— co-organizer, 1994
    Provost’s Task Force on Undergraduate Education— member, 1992-94 (also member of subcommittees on Teaching; Objectives; and Housing)

6.3   University Awards

    Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award (Washington U.), 2003
    Alumni Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Award (Washington U.), 2002
    Professor of the Year Award, Undergraduate Political Science Association (Washington U.), 2000
    Faculty of the Year Award, Student Union (Washington U.), 2000
    Outstanding Faculty Member, Women’s Panhellenic Association, 1999
    Rotunda Teaching Award (SMU), 1987-88; 1990-91
    Margareta Deschner Teaching Award (SMU), 1988

Appendix A. Previous Academic Appointments

Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law   Northwestern University, 2006-08
Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law   Northwestern University, Fall 2005
Professor of Law   Washington University, 2000-06
Israel Treiman Faculty Fellow   Washington University, 2001-02
Professor of Law (by courtesy)   Washington University, 1999-00
Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Political Science   Washington University, 1998-06
Chair of the Political Science Department  Washington University, 1995-99, 03
Resident Fellow in the Business, Law, and Economics Center   Washington University, 1994-99
Professor of Political Science   Washington University, 1993-98
Associate Professor of Political Science   Washington University, 1991-93
Associate Professor of Political Science   SMU, 1989-91
Assistant Professor of Political Science   SMU, 1986-89
Assistant Professor/Instructor of Political Science  Emory University, 1983-86

Appendix B. Honors, Awards, Citations

    Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper delivered at the 2007 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, for Untangling the Causal Effect of Sex on Judging, Presented by the Midwest Political Science Association, 2008.
    Outstanding Academic Title List for 2007 for THE SUPREME COURT OF COMPENDIUM. Presented by CHOICE, 2008.
    Listed in Leiter’s Most Cited Law Professors by Specialty, 2000-2007. Ranked 2nd in Law & Social Science.
    Listed in The Political Science 400: A 20-Year Update (400 most cited political scientists since 1960). Among most cited scholars by cohort and 18th most-cited woman. In PS, January 2007.
    McGraw-Hill Award for the the best journal article on law and courts written by a political scientist for The Effect of War on the Supreme Court. Presented by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 2006.
    Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006-
    “Honorable Mention” for the Law and Society Association Article Prize for The Effect of War on the Supreme Court. Presented by the Law and Society Association, 2006.
    Fellow-Eligible, Center for Advanced Studies, 2005- .
    “Honorable Mention” for the American Judicature Society Award for The Effect of War on the Supreme Court. Presented by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 2005.
    Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper delivered at the 2004 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, for The Effect of War on the Supreme Court. Presented by the Midwest Political Science Association, 2005.
    Robert H. Durr Award for the best paper delivered at the 2004 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association “applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem,” for The Effect of War on the Supreme Court. Presented by the Midwest Political Science Association, 2005.
    Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2004-
    Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award, Washington University, 2003
    Teaching and Mentoring Award for the CONSTITUTIONAL LAW FOR A CHANGING AMERICA series. Presented by the Law & Courts Section of the American Political Science Association and supported by a contribution from the Division for Public Education of the American Bar Association, 2003.
    President, Midwest Political Science Association, 2002-03
    Alumni Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Award, Washington University, 2002
    Professor of the Year Award, Undergraduate Political Science Association, Washington University, 2000
    Faculty of the Year Award, Student Union, Washington University, 2000
    Outstanding Faculty Member, Women’s Panhellenic Association, Washington University, 1999
    Chair, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science, 1999-00
    Associate Editor, LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW, 1998-00
    C. Herman Pritchett Award for the best book published on law and courts for THE CHOICES JUSTICES MAKE. Presented by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 1998
    “Outstanding Academic Reference Book in Political Science, Published over the Past 5 Years for THE SUPREME COURT OF COMPENDIUM. Presented by CHOICE, 1998
    “Excellent Reference, 1995’s Best Research Tools (Law)” for THE SUPREME COURT OF COMPENDIUM. In LINGUA FRANCA, 1995
    “Best Legal Reference Books of 1994” for THE SUPREME COURT OF COMPENDIUM. In the American Association of Law Libraries, 87 LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL, 1995
    “Special Recognition” honor, for THE SUPREME COURT OF