Dr. Lori Hausegger joined the faculty of the Department of Political Science at Boise State University in 2005. Her B.A. and M.A. are both in Political Science from the University of Calgary, and she earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University where her dissertation project explored the impact of interest groups on women's rights policies of the U.S. and Canadian supreme courts. Her current research interests include comparative courts, judicial selection, judicial decision-making and court-Congress relations. Dr. Hausegger serves as Co-Director of the Canadian Studies Program, as Pre-Law Advisor at Boise State, and as a manuscript reviewer for a number of journals, including American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics.
Articles
Exploring the Links Between Party and Appointment: Canadian Federal Judicial Appointments from 1989 to 2003 (with Troy Riddell, Matthew Hennigar, and Emmanuelle Richez), Canadian Journal of Political Science (2010)
Studies of federal judicial appointments made before 1988 discovered significant partisan ties between judicial appointees...
Federal Judicial Selection: Examining the Harper Appointments and Reforms (with Troy Riddell and Matthew Hennigar), Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law (2009)
Federal Judicial Appointments: A Look at Patronage in Federal Appointments Since 1988 (with Troy Riddell and Matthew Hennigar), University of Toronto Law Journal (2008)
The article investigates whether the new screening system introduced by the federal government in 1988...
The Changing Nature of Public Support for the Supreme Court of Canada (with Troy Riddell), Canadian Journal of Political Science (2004)
This paper investigates the relationship between diffuse support for the Canadian Supreme Court (general, lasting...
Judicial Decisionmaking and the Use of Panels in the Canadian Supreme Court and the South African Appellate Division (with Stacia Haynie), Law & Society Review (2003)
Research on the U.S. Supreme Court suggests that judges' decisions are influenced by their policy...
Books
Canadian Courts: Law, Politics, and Process (with Matthew Hennigar and Troy Riddell), Faculty Authored Books (2009)
Canadian Courts: Law, Politics and Process is the first and only Canadian text to specifically...
Contributions to Books
The Supreme Court and Congress: Reconsidering the Relationship (with Lawrence Baum), Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective (2004)
In the complicated process that shapes national policy, Congress and the Supreme Court interact regularly....
Behind the Scenes: The Supreme Court and Congress in Statutory Interpretation (with Lawrence Baum), Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990s (1998)
Interaction between the Supreme Court and Congress often involves high drama - occasionally melodrama. Indeed,...
Presentations
Government Litigation in Canada: Influences on Judicial Decision Making in Comparative Perspective, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (2011)
This study examines the applicability of US models of judicial decision making to courts in...