CERL annually hosts a postdoctoral fellowship for scholars with Ph.D.s in political science, economics, sociology, statistics, or other social sciences with interests in empirical legal scholarship. The Fellows conduct his or her own research, participate in an on-going research seminar, and collaborate with law school faculty.
- Delia Bailey is the current CERL fellow and will be working with Professor Andrew D. Martin for the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 academic years. She just received her PhD in Social Science from the California Institute of Technology. Her substantive interests include American voting behavior and elections, judicial politics and election law reform. Her methodological interests include causal inference and identification techniques, hierarchical modeling and semi-parametric estimation.
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In order to involve Law School faculty with graduate social science education and to enhance collaborate research, each year CERL names a number of Graduate Student Associates (GSAs). The GSAs are provided office space in the Law School with the necessary computing equipment and statistical software for their research. GSAs participate fully in the intellectual life of the Center and are provided a modest research stipend to be used for any reasonable research expense including conference travel. They are also encouraged to collaborate with Law School faculty with common interests on empirical projects. The CERL Graduate Student Associates for the 2006-2007 Academic Year are:
- Ryan Black received his B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 2004, and an A.M. in political science from Washington University in 2006. He is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student in political science. Ryan studies judicial politics with an emphasis on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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- Christina Boyd, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in political science, received her B.A. with honors in political science from the University of Florida in 2001 and her J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2004. Christina studies judicial politics with a particular focus on decision making in lower federal courts. Her work on the Administrative Office's Terminations Database was recently highlighted on the Empirical Legal Studies Blog, and her research on IFP certiorari petitions was featured on SCOTUSblog.
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- Amanda Driscoll received her B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Gonzaga University in 2003, and her Master's Degree in Political Science from the University of Arizona in 2006. She is currently a second year graduate student in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on Latin American political institutions, with an emphasis on Supreme Courts and inter-branch relations in comparative perspective.
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- Ryan Owens received a B.A. with distinction in history and political science from the University of Wisconsin in 1998, and a J.D. from Wisconsin in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he practiced telecommunications law in Madison, Wisconsin. Owens is currently an ABD PhD student studying judicial politics and American political institutions. His dissertation analyzes the conditions under which the separation of powers forces Supreme Court justices to act strategically when they vote to grant or deny certiorari. Owens recently received a grant from CERL to travel to the Library of Congress to study the personal papers of Justices William Brennan and Harry Blackmun. He also has received grants from the George H.W. Bush Library Foundation and the Southern Political Science Association.
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Anton Westveld (2006-2007 Fellow)
Anton received a M.A. in Applied Statistics from the University of Michigan in 1999 and recently received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington. He has just begun a post-doctoral fellowship with Professor Andrew Martin. Anton's main research interests include: Bayesian statistics, general applied statistics, relational data, and longitudinal data.
After his CERL fellowship, Anton accepted an Assistant Professorship in statistics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Matthew Schneider (2006-2007 GSA)
Matthew received a B.A. in political science from Bowling Green State University in 1998, and a J.D. from the University of Arizona in 2000. He is currently a sixth year Ph.D. student in political science. Matthew studies the ability of the U.S. Supreme Court to influence the decisions of lower courts and other governmental actors. He has accepted a tenure-track position beginning in the fall of 2007 at the University of Tennessee, and is the co-author of a forthcoming article in the Vanderbilt Law Review.
Upon completing his degree requirements, Matthew accepted an Assistant Professorship at the University of Tennesee.
Kate Jensen (2006-2007 GSA)
Kate received a B.S. in Mathematics and International Studies from the University of Kansas in 2005. She is currently a third-year Ph.D. student in Political Science. Kate studies political methodology and women and politics.
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