Lee Epstein

Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-1838
E-mail: lee-epstein@northwestern.edu

Curriculum Vitae and Course Pages

Lee Epstein, who visited Northwestern University School of Law as the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor for Fall 2005, has now joined the faculty as the Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. A recipient of ten grants from the National Science Foundation for her work on judicial politics, Epstein has also authored, co-authored, or edited over seventy articles and essays, as well as fourteen books. She is currently working with the papers of Justice Harry Blackmun for a book on agenda setting on the U.S. Supreme Court.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Law and Social Science
Empirical Legal Research

Constitutional Law
Federal Courts

COURSES

PUBLICATIONS

Recent Publications

On the Role of Ideological Homogeneity in Generating Consequential Constitutional Decisions , UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW , 2008
On the Perils of Drawing Inferences about Supreme Court Justices from Their First Few Years of Service, JUDICATURE, 2008
The Increasing Importance of Ideology in the Nomination and Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices , DRAKE LAW REVIEW , 2008
On the Capacity of the Roberts Court to Generate Consequential Precedent, NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW , 2008
On the Effective Communication of the Results of Empirical Studies, Part I , VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW, 2007

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EDUCATION

BA, Emory University
MA, Emory University
PhD, Emory University

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, 1998-06
Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, 2000-06