Schmidt's teaching and research interests range widely in the category of "all things legal," but begin in constitutional law and judicial behavior, and find their home in what is known as the "law and society" tradition. A special interest is lawyers: what they do, what they think they do, and what they say they think they do. Schmidt also conducts research into bureaucracies and government regulation of society. His current projects including the study of disclosure and Freedom of Information, collegiality on the Supreme Court, and human rights litigation in the U.S. Schmidt has been teaching at Macalester since 2006. EDUCATION: B.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Journal Articles
Business in the Bulls-Eye? Target Corp. and the Limits of Campaign Finance Disclosure (with Taren Kingser), Election Law Journal (2012)
Collegiality on the U.S. Supreme Court: The Impact of Chief Justice John Roberts (with David A. Yalof and Joey Mello), 95 Judicature (2011)
Book review of: Meeting the Enemy: American Exceptionalism and International Law, by Natsu Taylor Saito, Law and Politics Book Review (2010)
Sustaining Transparency?: Journalists, Government Officials, and the Minnesota Data Practices Act (with Zac Farber, Hannah Johnson, and Robert Woo), Open Government (2010)
Book Review of: Judging Mohammed: Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration, and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice, by Susan J. Terrio, Law and Politics Book Review (2009)
Books
Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices (with Simon Halliday) (2009)
Contributions to Books
The Ethical Lives of Securities Lawyers, Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context (2012)
Presentations
How to Decorate Glass Houses: Culture, Ideology, and Bureaucracy in the Transparency-Privacy Divide in the United States, Contemporary Challenges to the Scope of the Right of Access to Information conference, Södertörn University (2010)