About the Authors
PhD candidate
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Co-Opting the Court”
Bentsen, Henrik Litleré
Researcher
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
“Explaining Dissent Rates on a Consensual Danish Supreme Court”
Black, Ryan C.
Michigan State University
“Citizen Knowledge and the U.S. Supreme Court”
“Legitimacy, Trust, and Cameras in the U.S. Supreme Court”
Bolton, Joseph P.
PhD Candidate and Graduate Instructor
Washington State University
“Black Robes in the Limelight”
Bowie, Jennifer
Department of Political Science
University of Richmond
“In Her Words”
Braverman, Roey
Tel Aviv University
“A Proposed Constitutional Overhaul and the Question of Judicial Independence”
Cardenas, Alan
University of Texas at El Paso
“Courts as Colonizers or Protectors?”
Carp, Robert A.
University of Houston
“To Publish or Not Publish”
Ellis, Nicolas
Department of Political Science
University of Richmond
“In Her Words”
Fairbanks, Bailey R.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Central Arkansas
“At the Intersection of Law and Identity”
Fernandez, Kenneth E.
College of Southern Nevada
“Public Attitudes toward State Courts”
Fix, Michael P.
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Georgia State University
“The Impact of Democratic Consolidation on Public Confidence in Courts”
Gleason, Shane A.
Assistant Professor
Department of Social Sciences
Texas A&M University
“At the Intersection of Law and Identity”
González, Aidan
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
“At the Intersection of Law and Identity”
Hitt, Matthew P.
Monfort Professor and associate professor of political science
Colorado State University
“Lower Court Opinion Writing Style and Certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court”
Husser, Jason A.
Associate Professor
Elon University
“Public Attitudes toward State Courts”
Johnson, Ben
“Does the U.S. Supreme Court Respond to Public Opinion?”
Johnson, Timothy R.
University of Minnesota
“Legitimacy, Trust, and Cameras in the U.S. Supreme Court”
Johnson, Susan W.
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“To Publish or Not Publish”
Kromphardt, Christopher D.
Instructor
College of Professional Studies
Northeastern University
Visiting Assistant Professor
Cornell College
“Black Robes in the Limelight”
Lempert, Daniel
Associate professor of politics
SUNY Potsdam
“Lower Court Opinion Writing Style and Certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court”
Lippert, Anne
“Citizen Knowledge and the U.S. Supreme Court”
Manning, Kenneth L.
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
“To Publish or Not Publish”
Martin, Ana R.
PhD Candidate
Department of Political Science
Georgia State University
“The Impact of Democratic Consolidation on Public Confidence in Courts”
McKenzie, Mark Jonathan
Associate Professor of Political Science
Texas Tech University
“Explaining Dissent Rates on a Consensual Danish Supreme Court”
Morgan, Kyle J.
Ph.D.
“Experimentally Measuring Responsiveness to Criticisms of the U.S. Supreme Court as Antidemocractic”
Owens, Ryan J.
University of Wisconsin
“Legitimacy, Trust, and Cameras in the U.S. Supreme Court”
Pacelle, Richard
University of Tennessee
“Issue Emergence and Evolution in the U.S. Supreme Court”
Picado, Jonathan A.
University of Iowa College of Law
“Mother Nature, Lady Justice”
Pyle, Barry W.
Professor
Eastern Michigan University
“Issue Emergence and Evolution in the U.S. Supreme Court”
Randazzo, Kirk A.
Professor
University of South Carolina
“The Impact of Democratic Consolidation on Public Confidence in Courts”
Reid, Rebecca A.
University of Texas at El Paso
“Courts as Colonizers or Protectors?”
“Human Rights and Court Activism in the Mexican Supreme Court”
“Mother Nature, Lady Justice”
Robison, Kristenne M.
Kent State University
“Trial Court Policy Making”
Rutkowski, Adam G.
Assistant professor
Troy University
“Constitutional Interpretation Styles of U.S. Supreme Court Justices”
“Identifying and Explaining the Prevalence of Political Backgrounds among US Courts of Appeals Judges”
Scheb II, John M.
Department of Political Science
University of Tennessee
“Race and the Death Penalty in Tennessee, 1977-2016”
Sharma, Hemant K.
Department of Political Science
University of Tennessee
“Race and the Death Penalty in Tennessee, 1977-2016”
Shieh, Marcy
Postdoctoral fellow
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“Co-Opting the Court”
Stidham, Ronald
Appalachian State University
“To Publish or Not Publish”
Strother, Logan
“Does the U.S. Supreme Court Respond to Public Opinion?”
Skiple, Jon Kåre
Researcher
NORCE Norwegian Research Center AS
“Explaining Dissent Rates on a Consensual Danish Supreme Court”
Smithey, Shannon Ishiyama
Professor of Political Science
Westminster College
“Strategic Activism”
“Trial Court Policy Making”
Sommer, Udi
Tel Aviv University
“A Proposed Constitutional Overhaul and the Question of Judicial Independence”
Wedeking, Justin
University of Kentucky
“Citizen Knowledge and the U.S. Supreme Court”
“Legitimacy, Trust, and Cameras in the U.S. Supreme Court”