Using a new dataset capturing the ideological positioning of nearly half a million U.S. judges and lawyers, we present evidence showing how…
A framework for understanding the roles individuals and organizations can play in a movement for social change.
Words tend to fail us most in two circumstances — in the face of profound evil and of transcendent decency. When Elie Wiesel first tried to…
The author argues that the battle for the natural rights of citizens,including equality and freedom, must be reinvigorated. He reminds us…
Nancy Fraser’s path-breaking “Rethinking the Public Sphere” brought the term “subaltern counterpublics” into critical theoretical discourse…
We extend the scaling methodology previously used in Bonica (2014) to jointly scale the American federal judiciary and legal profession in…
What predicts attempts at judicial reform? We develop a broad, generalizable framework that both explains and predicts attempts at judicial…
Ever since the Carter Administration began appointing female and minority judges in large numbers, scholars have sought to measure their…