My research interests include the politics of judicial selection and confirmation,
the backgrounds and career paths of lower federal court judges,and the politics of
constitutional law and civil liberties. 

senatorial confirmation politics

Obama and the Federal Judiciary: Great Expectations but Will He Have a Dickens of a Time Living up to Them?, The Forum (2010)

This essay speculates on what an Obama judiciary might look like and how the selection...

 

presidential judicial appointment politics

Obama and the Federal Judiciary: Great Expectations but Will He Have a Dickens of a Time Living up to Them?, The Forum (2010)

This essay speculates on what an Obama judiciary might look like and how the selection...

 

judicial politics

Obama and the Federal Judiciary: Great Expectations but Will He Have a Dickens of a Time Living up to Them?, The Forum (2010)

This essay speculates on what an Obama judiciary might look like and how the selection...

 

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W. BUSH’S JUDICIAL LEGACY: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED (with Sara Schiavoni and Elliot Slotnick), Judicature (2009)
 

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Obama and the Federal Judiciary: Great Expectations but Will He Have a Dickens of a Time Living up to Them?, The Forum (2009)

This essay speculates on what an Obama judiciary might look like and how the selection...

 

Is There a Crisis in Judicial Selection?, Readings in Presidential Politics (2006)
 

Obscenity, Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties (2006)