Lee Epstein (PhD, Emory University) is the University Professor of
Law & Political Science and the Hilliard Distinguished
Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. She is a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
American Academy of Political and Social Science. A recipient of 12
grants from the National Science Foundation, Epstein has authored
or co-authored more than 100 articles and essays and 18 books. She
is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Comparative
Judicial Behaviour. Professor Epstein’s empirical research is
frequently cited in the New York Times, among other news
media.
Jeffrey A. Segal is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair of
the Political Science Department at Stony Brook University. He
is coauthor of eight books, including Advice and Consent: The
Politics of Judicial Appointments (2005), with Lee Epstein;
The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited, with
Harold J. Spaeth (2002), the original edition of which won the
2005 Wadsworth Award for a book that has made a lasting
influence on the field of law and courts; and Majority Rule or
Minority Will: Adherenceto Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court
(1999), also with Harold J. Spaeth, which won the C. Herman
Pritchett Award for best book on law and courts. He was a
2011–2012 Guggenheim Foundation grant winner and spent that
year as a senior research fellow at the Center for the Study
of Democratic Politics at Princeton University.
Harold J. Spaeth is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
at Michigan State University, and Research Professor at the
University’s College of Law and in the Institute for Public
Policy and Social Research. He is the recipient of a lifetime
achievement award from the Law and Courts section of the
American Political Science Association. He is the author or
coauthor of The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model
Revisited (2002), with Jeffrey A. Segal, the original edition
of which won the Wadsworth Award; Majority Rule or Minority
Will (1999), also with Jeffrey A. Segal, which won the C.
Herman Pritchett Award; Stare Indecisis: Alteration of
Precedent on the Supreme Court (1995), with Saul Brenner; Supreme
Court Policy Making: Explanation and Prediction (1979); and Supreme
Court Decision Making (1976), with David Rohde. He is also the
creator and compiler of a series of National Science
Foundation–supported U.S. Supreme Court databases.
Thomas G. Walker (PhD, University of Kentucky) is the Goodrich C.
White Professor Emeritus at Emory University, where he won several
teaching awards for his courses on constitutional law and the
judicial process. His book A Court Divided, written with Deborah J.
Barrow, won the prestigious V. O. Key Award for the best book on
Southern politics. He is the author of Eligible for Execution and
coauthor of The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and
Developments, 7th Edition, with Lee Epstein, Jeffrey A. Segal, and
Harold J. Spaeth.
"This is a valuable resource, but will be best used by those
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"This work provides a remarkably eclectic range of charts, data,
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its members. The four academic editors were diligent in their
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the work merits superlative praise reserved for the best in
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