2018 |
Nancy B. Arrington, Emory University
"Gender and Judicial Replacement: The Case of U.S. State Supreme Courts." |
2017 |
David Gelman, University of Rochester
"The Beliefs and Behavior of Appellate Court Judges." |
2017 |
Doug Johnson, University of Rochester
"The Beliefs and Behavior of Appellate Court Judges." |
2017 |
Natalie Rogol, Georgia State University
"Going Public: Presidential Impact on Supreme Court Decision-Making." |
2017 |
Matthew Montgomery, Georgia State University
"Going Public: Presidential Impact on Supreme Court Decision-Making." |
2017 |
Justin Kingsland, Georgia State University
"Going Public: Presidential Impact on Supreme Court Decision-Making." |
2016 |
Thomas Gray, University of Virginia
"Executive Influence on State Supreme Court Justices: Strategic Deference in Reappointment." |
2015 |
Monica E. Lineberger, University of South Carolina
"United Kingdom, United Courts? The Hierarchical Impact of Precedent in the British Judiciary.” presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association 2014. |
2015 |
Ali S. Masood, University of South Carolina
"United Kingdom, United Courts? The Hierarchical Impact of Precedent in the British Judiciary.” presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association 2014. |
2014 |
Alicia Uribe, Washington University in St. Louis
"Binders Full of Judges: A Model for the Interdependency of Appointments to the U.S. Federal Judiciary." |
2013 |
Doug Rice, Pennsylvania State University
"Measuring the Issue Content of Supreme Court Opinions through Probabilistic Topic Models" |
2013 |
Honorable Mention
Deborah Beim, Princeton University
"Learning in the Judicial Hierarchy" |
2013 |
Honorable Mention
Blake Emerson, Yale University
"The Empowerment of CriticismThe Freedmen’s Bureau, Howard University, and the Origins and Demise of Segregated Schooling in the South" |
2013 |
Honorable Mention
Patrick Luff, University of Oxford
"Captured Legislators and Public-Interested Courts" |
2012 |
Maya Sen, University of Rochester
Is Justice Really Blind: Race and Appellate Review in U.S. Courts |
2012 |
Honorable Mention
Richard Price, Syracuse University
Arguing Gunwall: Can a State Supreme Court Force Its Lawyers to Argue State Constitutional Claims? |
2011 |
Doug Rice, Pennsylvania State University
The Impact of Supreme Court Activity on the Judicial Agenda: Calling to Action or Settling the Law |
2010 |
Shauhin Talesh, University of California, Berkeley
"Bargaining in the Shadow of ‘Shadow Law" |
2009 |
Jonathan Kastellec, Princeton University
"Hierarchical and Collegial Politics on the U.S. Courts of Appeals" |
2008 |
Tom Clark, Princeton University
"The Separation of Powers, Court-Curbing and Judiical Legitimacy" |
2007 |
Shauhin Talesh, University of California, Berkeley
How Manufacturers Force Consumers to 'Holster' Consumer Warranty Protection Law 'Weapons' |
2007 |
Douglas Kriner
Hail to the Chief? Two Mechanisms of Congressional Influence over Presidential War-Making |
2006 |
Honorable Mention
Matthew Ingram, University of New Mexico
"Judicial Efficiency in 17 Mexico States, 1993-2000" |
2004 |
Chad Westerland, SUNY Stony Brook
"Who Owns the Majority Opinion? Policy Making on the U. S. Supreme Court" |
2004 |
Scott Hendrickson
"To DIG or Not to DIG: Using DIGs to Examine Supreme Court Decision Making and Agenda Setting" |
2003 |
Lisa Solowiej, Binghamton Univ-SUNY
"Participation, Competition, and Conflict: Interest Groups in the US Supreme Court" |
2003 |
Paul Collins Jr., Binghamton University
"Participation, Competition, and Conflict: Interest Groups in the US Supreme Court" |
2002 |
Paul Collins Jr., Binghamton University
"Organized Interests in the Supreme Court: Gauging the Effectiveness of Amicus Curiae Participation" |
2001 |
Alec Ewald, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"Getting Ready for Garza? Judge Emilio Garza, Civil Liberties, and the Politics of Judicial Selection." |
2000 |
Michael Ebeid, Yale University
"Do Presidents Shape Supreme Court Ideology? An Analysis of Judicial Agreement Tendencies" |
1999 |
Joshua Clinton, Stanford University
"An Independent Judiciary? Determining the Influence of Congressional and Presidential Preferences on the Supreme Court's Interpretation of Federal Statutes: 1953-1995" |
1999 |
Gretchen Helmke, University of Chicago
"Toward a Formal Theory of an Informal Institution: Insecure Tenure and Judicial Independence in Argentina, 1976-1995" |
1998 |
Laura Langer, Florida State University
"State Supreme Courts and Countermajoritarian Behavior" |
1997 |
Nancy Scherer, University of Chicago
"Reexamining the Politics of Crime in the Federal Courts: Are Bill Clinton’s Judicial Appointees ‘New’ Democrats or ‘Old’ Democrats?" |
1996 |
Melissa Marschall, SUNY Stony Brook
"A NeoMarksist Model of Supreme Court/Congress/President Interaction: The Civil Rights Cases, 1953-1992" |
1996 |
Andreas Broscheid, SUNY Stony Brook
"A NeoMarksist Model of Supreme Court/Congress/President Interaction: The Civil Rights Cases, 1953-1992" |
1994 |
Nancy Crowe, University of Chicago
"Gender and Asset Settlements in Divorce Proceedings" |
1993 |
Julie Novkov, University of Michigan
"Toward a Racist Theory of the State: Post-Civil War Anti-Mescegination Prosecutions" |
1990 |
Andrew Koppelman, Yale University
"Forced Labor: A Thirteenth Amendment Defense of Abortion" |