Lee Epstein
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
- Shedding (Empirical) Light on Judicial Selection, 74 MISSOURI LAW REVIEW 563-571 , 2009
- Economic Trends and Judicial Outcomes, 58 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 1191-1230 , 2009
- Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice, 2010
- 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
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

