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Intriguing Law & Courts panels at APSA

By jly

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The upcoming American Political Science Association conference in Boston has a good number of interesting panels to attend. So, if you are not sightseeing in Boston and would like to sit down for a while, you might check out some of the particularly noteworthy Law & Courts panels listed below. Unfortunately, it seems that a lot of good panels are coming on Thursday and Sunday, which makes them hard to attend if you are on a tight schedule. They are listed below the fold in no particular order.

26-5 Decision Making on State Courts

Date:

Thursday, Aug 28, 4:15 PM

Chair:

Roger E. Hartley
University of Arizona, rhartley@eller.arizona.edu

Author(s):

To Shirk or Not to Shirk from the Chief Justice: Associate Justices and Opinion Behavior

Laura L. Langer

University of Arizona, llanger@u.arizona.edu

Teena Wilhelm

University of Georgia, twilhelm@uga.edu

Gabriel Sanchez

University of New Mexico, sanchezg@unm.edu

Leadership and Professionalism in State Supreme Courts: A Study of Election Conflict

Brent D. Boyea

University of Texas, Arlington, boyea@uta.edu

Campaign Contributions, Judicial Decisionmaking, and Institutional Context

Chris W. Bonneau

University of Pittsburgh, cwbonneau@gmail.com

Damon M. Cann

University of Georgia, dcann@uga.edu

The Dynamics of State Court Institutionalization

Kaitlyn L. Sill

Louisiana State University, ksill1@lsu.edu

Kathleen A. Bratton

Louisiana State University, bratton@lsu.edu

Joseph Daniel Ura

Texas A&M University, joe.ura@gmail.com

Resource Inequalities and Litigation Outcomes in State Supreme Courts

Stacia L. Haynie

Louisiana State University, pohayn@lsu.edu

Tao L. Dumas

Louisiana State University, tdumas@lsu.edu

Discussant(s):

Melinda Gann Hall
Michigan State University, hallme@msu.edu
Jenna Lukasik
Vanderbilt University, jenna.e.lukasik@vanderbilt.edu

26-12 Judicial Selection

Date:

Friday, Aug 29, 2:00 PM

Chair:

Stephen S. Meinhold
University of North Carolina, Wilmington, meinholds@uncw.edu

Author(s):

How Should Supreme Court Confirmations be Conducted? Comparing Normative Beliefs of the Mass Public and Legal Elites

Brandon L. Bartels

SUNY, Stony Brook, brandon.bartels@stonybrook.edu

Christopher David Johnston

SUNY, Stony Brook, johncd1@gmail.com

Designated Justice: The Effects of Senate Delay on United States Courts of Appeals? Decisions

Christine L. Nemacheck

College of William & Mary, clnema@wm.edu

The Implications of Politicization in the Lower Federal Court Appointment Process

Lisa M. Holmes

University of Vermont, Lisa.M.Holmes@uvm.edu

The Politics of Judicial Selection and the Psychology of Judicial Choice

Wendy L. Martinek

SUNY, Binghamton, martinek@binghamton.edu

Discussant(s):

Nancy Scherer
Wellesley College, nscherer@wellesley.edu

26-14 Supreme Court Membership: Continuity and Change

Date:

Thursday, Aug 28, 2:00 PM

Chair:

Charles C. Turner
California State University, Chico, ccturner@csuchico.edu

Author(s):

(Birth) Order on the Court and Its Impact on the Justices’ Behavior

Kevin T. McGuire

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, kmcguire@unc.edu

Strategic Departures from the U.S. Supreme Court, 1956-2006

Terri Peretti

Santa Clara University, tperetti@scu.edu

Alan Rozzi

Santa Clara University, arozzi@scu.edu

Drift, Draft, or Drag: How U.S. Supreme Court Justices React to New Members

Charles Anthony Smith

University of California - Irvine, casmith@uci.edu

Oleg Smirnov

SUNY, Stony Brook, osmirnov@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Chief Justice Roberts and Consensus on the U.S. Supreme Court

Mark S. Hurwitz

Western Michigan University, mark.hurwitz@wmich.edu

Drew N. Lanier

University of Central Florida, dlanier@mail.ucf.edu

Discussant(s):

Tracey E. George
Vanderbilt University, tracey.george@vanderbilt.edu
Roy B. Flemming
Texas A&M University, roy@politics.tamu.edu

26-15 Court Agenda Setting

Date:

Sunday, Aug 31, 8:00 AM

Author(s):

Forward-Looking Agenda Setting on the United States Supreme Court

Ryan J. Owens

Washington University, St. Louis, ryan_owens@gov.harvard.edu

Ryan C. Black

Washington University, St. Louis, rcblack@wustl.edu

Choosing the Questions: U.S. Supreme Court Case Selection as a Self-Written Examination

Matthew M. Schneider

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, mschne11@utk.edu

Choosing Determinative Issues in Complex Litigation: An Experimental Test of a Value Hypothesis

Eileen Braman

Indiana University, ebraman@indiana.edu

Discussant(s):

Saul Brenner
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, sbrenner@uncc.edu
Doris Marie Provine
Arizona State University, Marie.Provine@asu.edu

26-17 The Judiciary in American Politics

Date:

Friday, Aug 29, 10:15 AM

Chair:

Linda Camp Keith
University of Texas, Dallas, linda.keith@utdallas.edu

Author(s):

Don Quixote, and the Plaintiff Who Would Not Quit: Framing Court Cases in Newspaper Coverage

Laura J. Hatcher

Southern Illinois University, hatcher@siu.edu

The Rhetorical President and its Affects on the Court

Kimberley Fletcher

SUNY, Albany, kf814553@albany.edu

Polarized Politics and Inherited Constitutional Theory

Mark A. Graber

University of Maryland, mgraber@law.umaryland.edu

Presidential Rhetoric and the Federal Judiciary: The Roots of Politicization

Jason Kehrberg

University of Kentucky, jkehrberg@uky.edu

Kirk A. Randazzo

University of South Carolina, randazzo@mailbox.sc.edu

Richard W. Waterman

University of Kentucky, richard.waterman@uky.edu

How Do Supreme Court Decisions Shape the Public Debate? A Case Study of Lamb’s Chapel

Michael Salamone

University of California, Berkeley, salamone@berkeley.edu

Bruce R. Huber

University of California, Berkeley, bruce.huber@gmail.com

Discussant(s):

Richard L. Pacelle
Georgia Southern University, rpacelle@georgiasouthern.edu
Robert A. Kagan
University of California, rak@berkeley.edu

and, last but not least….

29-5 New Directions in State Court Research
Date:	Friday, Aug 29, 8:00 AM


Chair:	Stephen L. Wasby SUNY, Albany, wasb@albany.edu
Participant(s):	Melinda Gann Hall Michigan State University, hallme@msu.edu Matthew Kleiman National Center for State Courts, mkleiman@ncsc.org David C. Steelman National Center for State Courts Matthew J. Streb Northern Illinois University, mstreb@niu.edu G. Alan Tarr Rutgers University, Camden, tarr@camden.rutgers.edu Jeff Yates University of Georgia, jyates@uga.edu