Guest Blogger: Lee Epstein

This week's guest blogger is Lee Epstein.  Lee is the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at Washington University, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.  She will permanently join the Northwestern Law faculty as the Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law in September 2006.

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 thirteen books, including the Constitutional Law for a Changing America series (in its 5th edition; winner of the Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association), The Supreme Court Compendium (now in its 3rd edition; winner of a Special Recognition Honor from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association and an Outstanding Academic Book Award from Choice), and The Choices Justices Make (recipient of the Pritchett award for the Best Book on Law and Courts). Current projects include Strategic Defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court, which examines the circumstances leading lower courts to comply with/defy higher courts; Do We Still Need an ERA?, which analyzes constitutional sex discrimination litigation in the 50 states to make an inference about the need for a federal Equal Rights Amendment; and Importing Law, which considers how courts here and abroad make use of foreign legal materials. She also is working with the papers of Justice Harry Blackmun for  a book on agenda setting on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Professor Epstein is a former chair of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association and a past President of the Midwest Political Science Association. She also serves (or has served) on the Board of Directors of the American Judicature Society, the Executive Council of the Southern Political Science Association, the Board of Trustees of the Law & Society Association, and on the Editorial Boards or Advisory Panels of the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, American Politics Research, I•CON: The International Journal of Constitutional Law, Law and Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review, Political Research Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly.

Epstein teaches courses on Constitutional Courts, Constitutional Law, Defendants' Rights, Law and Social Change, Research Design and Methods, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She received a Faculty of the Year Award from Washington University's Student Union and was named Professor of the Year by the Undergraduate Political Science Association. Other university awards include the Alumni Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Award (2002) and the  Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award (2003).

Comments

[Sara Benesh]

To add a few:

Scott Comparato
Andrew Martin
Jeff Staton
Christina Wolbrecht

[Anon]

How about a list of Epstein's former students? I suppose it reads like a who's who studying judiciail politics, but I'm curious.

Spriggs?
Johnson?

Who else?