Constitutional Commentary

Our library just received the Spring 2007 issue of Constitutional Commentary, which contains a Symposium on The Rehnquist Court in Empirical and Statistical Perspective.  Among other pieces are an article co-authored by ELSBlog editors Jason Czarnezki and Bill Ford, along with Lori Ringhand, entitled An Empirical Analysis of the Confirmation Hearings of the Justices of the Rehnquist Natural Court, and Warren Court Precedents in the Rehnquist Court by Frank Cross (another ELSBlog editor), Thomas Smith, and Antonio Tomarchio.  Other articles include (1) When the Court Has a Party, How Many "Friends" Show Up? A Note on the Statistical Distribution of Amicus Brief Filings by Daniel Farber; (2) The Rhetoric of Restraint and the Ideology of Activism, by Stefanie Lindquist, Joseph Smith, and Frank Cross; (3) Judicial Activism: An Empirical Examinoation of Voting Behavior on the Rehnquist Natural Court, by Lori Ringhand; (4) The Most Dangerous Justice Rides into the Sunset, by Paul Edelman and Jim Chen; and (5) The Aggregate Harmony Metric and a Statistical and Visual Contextualization of the Rehnquist Court; 50 Years of Data, by Peter Hook.