Thank You

I would just like to thank Bill and the rest of the ELS folks for the kind invitation to join the blog as a permanent editor.  I look forward in the coming weeks and months to posing questions similar to those that I have advanced over the past two weeks, to cross-post to SCOTUSblog.com occasionally on Supreme Court-related issues , and to ask your advice on my empirical projects and those of my colleagues and students in both the political science department and law school here at the University of Minnesota.  I also would love to hear about your experiences in conducting empirical research, and in that regard, please feel free to e-mail me if there are any issues that you would like for me to raise on this blog.  I anticipate that, through even informal collaboration on this blog, we will all turn out better quality empirical work in the future.