Lee Epstein : Introduction

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Lee Epstein is the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research and teaching interests center on law and legal institutions, especially the behavior of judges.Professor Epstein is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She also serves as Co-Director of the Center for Empirical Research in the Law, Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago, and a Principal Investigator of the U.S. Supreme Court Database project. In 2019, she held the International Himalaya Law Chair Professorship at National Taiwan University. In 2019-20, she will be a visiting professor/scholar at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Bergen in Norway.A recipient of 12 grants from the National Science Foundation, Professor Epstein has authored or co-authored over 130 articles and essays and 18 books, including The Choices Justices Make (co-authored with Jack Knight), which won the Pritchett Award for the Best Book on Law and Courts and, more recently, the Lasting Contribution Award for research that has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts. The Constitutional Law for a Changing America series (co-authored with Thomas Walker), now in its 10th edition, received the Teaching and Mentoring Award from a section of the American Political Science Association. Recent books include The Behavior of Federal Judges, with William M. Landes Richard A. Posner (Harvard University Press); An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research, with Andrew D. Martin (Oxford University Press); and The Oxford Handbook on U.S. Judicial Behavior (edited with Stefanie A. Lindquist). In 2016, Epstein received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.Professor Epstein teaches courses on constitutional law, judicial behavior, the U.S. Supreme Court, and research design and methods. She is a recipient of Northwestern University School of Law's Outstanding First-Year Course Professor Award. At Washington University she was named Professor of the Year by the Undergraduate Political Science Association and received a Faculty of the Year Award from the Student Union. She also received Washington University's Alumni Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Award and the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award.keywords: Lee Epstein, Lee Spole, judicial behavior, empirical legal studies, judging, law and courts, constitutional law, Supreme Court, constitutional courts, USC, University of Southern California, Washington University, Emory University, Syosset, Scatico

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