UTK graduate students crushing it at the #APSA2025 judicial poster session. Stop by and see Hannah and Matthew in the Exhibition Hall!

Look, I don’t have to think Mandami is the best candidate to celebrate the fact that the sexual predator might not win

We also find that the OSG is more successful in cases involving its institutional interests when it is the petitioner, likely due to its careful case selection. However, it loses some of the benefit of other signals of credibility in cases in these areas when it is respondent or amicus 3/3

We find the OSG is much more likely to take a position that is against its presumed ideological interests than it is to take a position that is against its institutional interests in criminal prosecution, immigration enforcement, and protecting federal/executive power 2/3

My brilliant honors student just gave a great talk about the Tennessee anti-suffrage movement to a packed public audience 1/2

Look what just arrived!

Another grad student shining: Matthew Cooper presents our work on how partisanship and election timing affect prosecutors’ decision to seek the death penalty

My grad student co-author Hannah crushing our presentation at #SPSA2025

Arrived just in time for winter break reading!!

I am doing an assignment my Women, Gender, Sexuality and the Law class modeled on the creative assignment shared by @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social. Look at this incredible art created by one of my students to illustrate the effects of the Dobbs decision