Op-Eds
- Science, Save the Supreme Court and Democracy
- Politico, The Supreme Court is Now Operating Outside of American Public Opinion
- Washington Post, Appointing Public Defenders as Judges Affects their Decisions. Our Study Shows How
- Washington Post (Monkey Cage). Biden’s commission is examining Supreme Court term limits. Those could have unintended consequences
- Los Angeles Times, The Political Donations Made by Robert Mueller’s Team are Not Evidence of Bias
- New York Times, How Not to Pick Judges
Expert Reports and Testimony
- “The Importance of a Diverse Federal Judiciary.” House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, 2021
- “Written Testimony on the Court’s Role in our Constitutional System.” Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, 2021
- “The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits” U.S. Supreme Court Working Group, Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Amicus Briefs
General Media Coverage, Interviews, and Commentary
- The Weeds podcast with Matt Yglesias, "Stephen Breyer should retire"
- PBS Newshour, “Sharp political divides shaped Wisconsin Supreme Court race”
- PBS Newshour, “Examining President Biden’s pledge to diversify the federal judiciary”
- National Public Radio, “Political Scientist Weighs In On Trump's Criticism Of 9th Circuit Court Of Appeals”
- Bloomberg, “Biden Can Make Mark on Judiciary with Trial Court Appointments”
- New York Times, “Experts Debate Reducing the Supreme Court’s Power to Strike Down Laws”
Coverage of Specific Research Areas
Supreme Court Ideology and Public Opinion
- New York Times, “The Major Supreme Court Decisions in 2022” (coverage of SCOTUS poll)
- New York Times, “The Supreme Court, Public Opinion and the Fate of Roe”
- New York Times, “The Supreme Court Aligned With Public Opinion in Most Major Cases This Term” (2020)
- New York Times, “What Sandra Day O’Connor Got Wrong”
Supreme Court Reform (Expansion and Term Limits)
- Balls & Strikes, “Without Supreme Court Expansion, Liberals Might Not Control the Court Until 2065”
- SCOTUSBlog, “Term limits for justices gain new attention, but prospects for passage remain dim”
- CSPAN, “Harvard University professor Maya Sen discusses the rationale for implementing term limits for the Supreme Court.”
- 538, “Is It Time To Expand The Supreme Court?”
- Above the Law, “Supreme Court Expansion Could Lead To 61 Justice Court By 2123”
Judicial Selection, Judicial, Diversity and Judicial Decisionmaking
- WBUR (NPR), “What Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's history as a public defender means for the Supreme Court”
- The New York Times, “Why Judges Tilt to the Right”
- New York Times, “The Politicization of the Supreme Court Is Eroding Its Legitimacy”
- The Harvard Gazette “The politics of jurisprudence
- The Washington Post, “Sorry Neil Gorsuch — American judges are just as partisan as everyone else”
- The Economist, “Supreme Court justices may give away their votes with their voices”
- National Public Radio, “Research: Children Of Judges May Influence Court Decisions”
- The New York Times, “Another Factor Said to Sway Judges to Rule for Women’s Rights: A Daughter”
- Scripps News Service, “Judges who have daughters rule more liberally, study says”
- The Washington Post, “Study: Judges with daughters are more likely to rule in favor of women”
- The Washington Post (Monkey Cage), “Parents of daughters support Hillary Clinton more than parents of sons”
- New York Times, “A Conservative Group’s Closed-Door ‘Training’ of Judicial Clerks Draws Concern”
- SCOTUS Blog, “Forthcoming paper on influence of law clerks recalls Rehnquist article from 1957”
- National Public Radio, “Minority Aspirants To Federal Bench Are Hindered By Underrating”
- The Washington Post, “Has the American Bar Association kept our judges white and male?”
- MSNBC, “American Bar Association under fire for underrating women, minorities”
- National Public Radio, “Research: Black Judges Are Reversed On Appeal More Than White Judges”
Race and Ethnic Politics
Legacy of Slavery
- Why Is This Happening Podcast with Chris Hayes (MSBNC)
- Politico Top 50 Books of 2018
- Book Review in Science (Online)
- Project Syndicate, “America’s Ongoing Civil War” (Op-Ed by Jeffrey Sachs)
- Slate, “The Mississippi Special Election Is a Glimpse Into America’s Polarized Future” (Jamelle Bouie)
- New York Magazine, “Mass Immigration Creates Problems For the Left. Tighter Borders Can’t Be the Solution.”
- Harvard Magazine, “Slavery’s Southern Legacy”
- New York Magazine, “The Color of his Presidency”
- Vox, “Study: white Southerners in counties that had more slaves are likelier to back Republicans”
- The New York Times, “More on Slavery’s Shadow” (Paul Krugman)
- The Washington Post, “Researchers have found strong evidence that racism helps the GOP win”
- The Washington Post, “Study equates high number of slaves in Southern counties with today’s racial resentment”
- Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, “UR study explores slavery's legacy” (print)
- Huffington Post, “Racism In The South Shows Slavery's Lingering Legacy, Study Suggests”
- The Daily Map, “Map that shows how racism is concentrated in areas of the South that had most slavery” (UK)
- PBS Newshour, “The hidden racism of young white Americans”
- Jezebel, “How to Fix a Racist Frat”
- Salon, “American elections enter a dangerous new era: Here's what you need to know about Voter ID laws in 2016”
- Al Jazeera America, “Taking down the Confederate flag isn’t enough”
- Monkey Cage, “How Slavery Changed the US South
- Marginal Revolution, “The political legacy of American slavery” (Tyler Cowen)
Law and the Legal Profession
- Above the Law, “The (Mostly Liberal) Political Ideologies Of American Lawyers, Law Schools, And Firms”
- Bloomberg Law, “How are Quinn Emanuel and Hillary Clinton Alike?”
- Marginal Revolution, “How left-leaning are lawyers?” (Tyler Cowen)
- Harvard Gazette, “Gauging the bias of lawyers”
- Wall Street Journal Law Blog, “Law Clerks Skew Liberal — Even Ones Hired by GOP Appointees — Says Study”
- Vox, “Why political scientists think Merrick Garland is more liberal than lawyers do”
- SCOTUS Blog “Forthcoming paper on influence of law clerks recalls Rehnquist article from 1957”
- The Washington Post “How ‘ideologically uniform’ is the legal academy?” (Jonathan Adler)
- Bloomberg Opinion, “The Problem With All Those Liberal Professors” (Cass Sunstein)
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