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Law 760S. The Politics of the U.S. Supreme Court (Seminar)

Syllabus [PDF]

Scheduling Memo [PDF]

Meeting 2. The Attitudinal Model

Lee Epstein and Gary King. 2002. "The Rules of Inference." University of Chicago Law Review. 69: 1-133. [PDF]

Jeffrey A. Segal and Harold J. Spaeth. 2002. The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited. Cambridge University Press.

Symposium on The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model. 1994. Law & Courts Newsletter. [PDF]

Meeting 3. Measurement

Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn, and Lee Epstein. 2005. "The Median Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court." North Carolina Law Review. 83: 1275-1321. [HeinOnline | PDF]

C. Neal Tate. 1981. "Personal Attribute Models of the Voting Behavior of U.S. Supreme Court Justices: Liberalism in Civil Liberties and Economics Decisions, 1946-1978." American Political Science Review. 75: 355-367. [JSTOR]

Jeffrey A. Segal and Albert D. Cover. 1989. "Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices." American Political Science Review. 83: 557-565. [JSTOR]

Symposium on the Supreme Court Forecasting Project. 2004. Perspectives on Politics. [JSTOR]

Meeting 4. Guest Speaker: Professor Chris Zorn

Greg Caldeira and Chris Zorn. "Measuring Supreme Court Ideology." Working paper. [PDF]

Meeting 5. Strategic Models

Lee Epstein and Jack Knight. 1998. The Choices Justices Make. CQ Press.

William N. Eskridge, Jr. 1991. "Reneging on History: Playing the Court/Congress/President Civil Rights Game." California Law Review. 79: 613-684. [HeinOnline]

Meeting 6. Legal Models

Frank Cross. 1997. "Political Science and the New Legal Realism." Northwestern Law Review. 92: 251-326. [HeinOnline]

Barry Friedman. 2005-2006. "The Politics of Judicial Review." Texas Law Review. 84: 257-337. [HeinOnline]

Tracey E. George and Lee Epstein. 1992. "On the Nature of Supreme Court Decision Making." American Political Science Review. 86: 323-337. [JSTOR]

Mark J. Richard and Herbert M. Kritzer. 2002. "Jurisprudential Regimes in Supreme Court Decision Making." American Political Science Review. 96: 305-321. [JSTOR]

Meeting 7. The Chief Justice

David J. Danelski. 1968. "The Influence of the Chief Justice in the Decisional Process." In The Federal Judicial System: Readings in Process and Behavior. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. [PDF]

Forrest Maltzman and Paul J. Wahlbeck. 1996. "May It Please the Chief? Opinion Assignments in the Rehnquist Court." American Journal of Political Science. 40: 421-443. [JSTOR]

Theodore W. Ruger. 2004. "The Judicial Appointment Power of the Chief Justice." University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitution Law. 7: 341-402. [HeinOnline]

Meeting 8. Lawyering

Timothy R. Johnson, Paul J. Wahlbeck, and James F. Spriggs, II. 2006. "The Influence of Oral Arguments on the U.S. Supreme Court." American Political Science Review. 100: 99-113. [Hard copy provided.]

Kevin McGuire. 1995. "Repeat Players in the Supreme Court: The Role of Experienced Lawyers in Litigation Success." 1995. Journal of Politics. 57: 187-196. [JSTOR]

Richard L. Pacelle. 2006. "Amicus Curiae or Amicus Praesidentis?" Judicature. 89: 317-325. [PDF]

James F. Spriggs, II and Paul J. Wahlbeck. 1997. "Amicus Curiae and the Role of Information at the Supreme Court." Political Research Quarterly. 50: 365-386. [JSTOR]

Meeting 9. Agenda Setting

Gregory A. Caldeira, and John R. Wright. 1988. "Organized Interests and Agenda Setting in the U.S. Supreme Court." American Political Science Review. 82: 1109-1127. [JSTOR]

H.W. Perry. 2005. Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court. Harvard University Press.

Meeting 10. Appointments

Steven G. Calabresi and James Lindgren. 2006. "Term Limits for the Supreme Court: Life Tenure Reconsidered." Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. 29: 770-887. [HeinOnline]

Lee Epstein and Jeffrey A. Segal. 2005. Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments. Oxford University Press.

Byron J. Moraski and Charles R. Shipan. 1999. "The Politics of Supreme Court Nominations: A Theory of Institutional Constraints and Choices." American Journal of Political Science. 43:1069-1095. [JSTOR]

Meeting 11. The Court and Public Opinion

Lee Epstein, Daniel E. Ho, Gary King, and Jeffrey A. Segal. 2005. "The Effect of War on the Supreme Court." New York University Law Review. 80: 1-116. [HeinOnline]

Charles H. Franklin and Liane C. Kosaki. 1989. "The Republican School Master: The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and Abortion." American Political Science Review. 83: 751-771. [JSTOR]

James L. Gibson, Gregory A. Caldeira, and Lester Kenyatta Spence. 2003. "Measuring Attitudes toward the United States Supreme Court." American Journal of Political Science. 47: 354-367. [JSTOR]

Timothy R. Johnson and Andrew D. Martin. 1998. "The Public's Conditional Response to Supreme Court Decisions." American Political Science Review. 92: 299-310. [PDF]

Kevin T. McGuire and James A. Stimson. 2004. "The Least Dangerous Branch Revisited: New Evidence on Supreme Court Responsiveness to Public Preferences." Journal of Politics. 66: 1018-1035. [JSTOR]

Meeting 12. Impact

Jonathan D. Casper. 1976. "The Supreme Court and National Policy Making." American Political Science Review. 70: 50-63. [JSTOR]

Robert Dahl. 1957. "Decision-Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policy-Maker." Journal of Public Law. 6: 279-295. [HeinOnline]

Lee Epstein, Jack Knight, and Andrew D. Martin. 2001. "Dahl Symposium: The Supreme Court as a Strategic National Policymaker." Emory Law Journal. 50: 583-611. [PDF]

Donald R. Songer, Jeffrey A. Segal, and Charles M. Cameron. 1994. "The Hierarchy of Justice: Testing a Principal-Agent Model of Supreme Court-Circuit Court Interactions." American Journal of Political Science. 38: 673-96. [JSTOR]

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