Directory

Office Hours:

Thursdays 2-3 and by appointment.

Research Interests

• Judicial Politics
• Administrative Law

• “The Strategy of Judging: Evidence from Administrative Law” (Journal of Legal Studies, 2002).
• The U.S. Constitution in 5 Minutes. (co-edited with Davide Klein). Under contract with
  Equinox Press. Forthcoming 2023. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/u-s-constitution-5-min/
• “Group Identification and Support for the supreme Court: Evidence from Evangelical
  Protestants.” (co-authored with Christopher Kromphardt and Anderson Starling). Journal for
  the Scientific Study of Religion. Vol. 58, No. 4 (Dec. 2019), pp. 854-873.
• “Gender, ideology, and Dominance in Supreme Court Oral Arguments.” (co-authored with
  Dana J. Patton) Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy. April 2020, pp. 1-23.
• “Lawyer, Interrupted: Gender Bias in Oral Arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court.” (co-authored
  with Dana J. Patton) Journal of Law and Courts, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2017), pp. 337-361.
• “Getting Personal in Supreme Court Opinions.” Washington University Journal of Law and
  Policy, Vol. 54 (Fall 2017), pp. 195-207.
• “Rules, Standards, and Lower Court Decisions.” (co-Authored with James A. Todd). The
  Journal of Law and Courts, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 257-275
• “Law, Fact, and the Threat of Reversal from Above.” 42 American Politics Research
  (2014): 226-256.

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