Andrew D. Martin is Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He serves as the founding Director of the Center for Empirical Research in the Law in the School of Law. Professor Martin served as the Chair of the Political Science Department from 2007 to 2011 and is a Resident Fellow of the Center in Political Economy in Arts & Sciences. Professor Martin has been on the Washington University faculty since 2000. He is also a principal of the analytics consultancy Principia Empirica LLC.

Professor Martin's expertise is in the study of judicial decisionmaking, with special emphasis on the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts. He also works extensively in the field of political methodology and applied statistics. He has published in a number of prominent law reviews and leading social science and applied statistics journals, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, the Journal of Legal Studies, and Statistical Science. Professor Martin is a frequent presenter at conferences and workshops throughout the country. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. He has been the principal investigator on eight grants from the National Science Foundation.

Professor Martin is the principal investigator of the The Judicial Elections Data Initiative, a study of litigation processes in employment discrimination suits initiated by the EEOC, and a cross-national study that examines decisionmaking in constitutional courts around the globe. He is also a collaborator on The Supreme Court Database project, and a contributor to The Discography. With his collaborator Kevin M. Quinn (UC Berkeley), Professor Martin developed the Martin-Quinn Scores that are widely used to measure ideology on the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the co-author of the Scythe Statistical Library, an open source C++ library for statistical computation, and MCMCpack, an open source R package for performing Bayesian inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.

Professor Martin is involved in multiple professional organizations. He served as the Chair of the Law & Social Sciences Section of the Association of American Law Schools from 2009-2010. He has hosted the website for the Society for Political Methodology for nearly a decade, and has sat on a number of important committees for the Society. He was the Associate Editor and then Acting Editor of Political Analysis from 2007-2009. Professor Martin has received the Harold Gosnell Prize for the best work of political methodology presented at a political science conference and his work was selected for inclusion in Oxford's Centenary Celebration Volume as one of one hundred seminal journal articles published in all journals by Oxford University Press. Other recent awards include "A Best Free Reference Website Award" for the U.S. Supreme Court Database from MARS: Emerging Technologies in Reference, American Library Association, “Exemplary Legal Writing” Honor from Green Bag, and the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper delivered at the annual of the Midwest Political Science Association. He also has an Erdös number of 3.

Professor Martin teaches courses in the law school on judicial decisionmaking and on social science and statistics for lawyers, in addition to graduate and undergraduate courses in political methodology in Arts & Sciences. He is (in)famous for regularly teaching the required Quantitative Political Methodology course for all political science majors. Professor Martin has mentored nearly twenty doctoral students, and received the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in 2011 from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. He also regularly offers workshops on social science research methods for judges, prosecutors, and legal academics.

Professor Martin received his A.B. from the College of William & Mary cum laude and with high honors in Mathematics and Government in 1994, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Washington University in 1998. He lives with his wife and daughter in University City, Missouri, and Sandpoint, Idaho.

See profile of Professor Martin in the Arts & Sciences Magazine Spring 2011.

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