The Choices Justices Make
Lee Epsteinis the Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University. She is coauthor ofThe Supreme Court and Legal Change: Abortion and the Death Penalty(1992) with Joseph Kobylka;Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments(2005) with Jeffrey A. Segal;The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and Developments,4th ed. (2007) with Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, and Thomas G. Walker; andThe Choices Justices Make(1998) with Jack Knight, which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award for the best book on law and courts. In addition, she is coauthor, with Walter F. Murphy and C. Herman Pritchett of Courts,Judges and Politics,6th ed. (2006).Jack Knightis professor in the political science department, a fellow of the Center for Political Economy, and a member of the Committee on Social Thought and Analysis at Washington University. He is the author ofInstitutions and Social Conflictand co-editor ofExplaining Social Institutionswith Itai Sened.