Lee Epstein is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor at Northwestern University, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
A recipient of ten grants from the National Science Foundation for her work on law and legal institutions, Epstein has also authored, co-authored, or edited over 100 articles and essays, as well as 14 books, including the Constitutional Law for a Changing America series (in its 6th edition; winner of the Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association), The Supreme Court Compendium (in its 4th edition; winner of a Special Recognition Honor from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association and an Outstanding Academic Book Award from Choice), and The Choices Justices Make (recipient of the Pritchett award for the Best Book on Law and Courts). Her book with Jeff Segal, Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments (Oxford University Press), received extensive media coverage, with its findings reported in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, among other outlets. Recent projects include Strategic Defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court, which examines the circumstances leading lower courts to comply with/defy higher courts; Ideological Drift (Northwestern University Law Review), which explores the extent to which Supreme Court justices remain committed to a particular doctrinal course over time; and Super Medians (Stanford Law Review, forthcoming), which considers why strong swings emerge on the Court. She also is working with the papers of Justice Harry Blackmun for a book on agenda setting.
Professor Epstein is a former chair of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association and a past President of the Midwest Political Science Association. She is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, and serves (or has served) on the Editorial Boards or Advisory Panels of the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, American Politics Research, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, I•CON: The International Journal of Constitutional Law, Law & Policy, Law and Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review, Political Research Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly.