Lee Epstein

Henry Wade Rogers Professor

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

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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

Economic Trends and Judicial Outcomes, 58 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 1191-1230 , 2009
Circuit Effects: How the Norm of Federal Judicial Experience Biases the U.S. Supreme Court , 157 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW 833-880, 2009
The Political Economy of Judging, 93 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 1503-1534, 2009
On the Perils of Drawing Inferences about Supreme Court Justices from Their First Few Years of Service, 91 JUDICATURE 168-179, 2008
On the Role of Ideological Homogeneity in Generating Consequential Constitutional Decisions , 10 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 361-386, 2008

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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