Elizabeth
Garrett
Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, Political Science, and Policy, Planning and Development, Vice President for Academic Planning and Budget, and Co-Director
of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics
egarrett@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=216
B.A., University of Oklahoma; J.D., University of Virginia.
Professor Garrett's primary scholarly interests are the legislative process, statutory interpretation, direct democracy, the federal budget process, and administrative law. She is the co-author of the Third Edition of the leading casebook on legislation and statutory interpretation, Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (West Publishing 2001). Her recent articles have analyzed courts and political parties, campaign finance reform laws, various congressional procedures, judicial review of regulatory statutes, and the initiative process.
After Law school, Ms. Garrett clerked for Judge Williams on the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1991-93, Ms. Garrett served as legal counsel and legislative assistant for tax, budget, and welfare reform issues for U.S. Senator David L. Boren. In 1993, she became Senator Boren's legislative director and budget counsel. She joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1995 as an assistant professor and became a professor of law in 1999. She was a visiting professor of law at USC in Fall 2002, and joined the faculty in 2003.
Mathew D. McCubbins
Professor and Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair in Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Co-Director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics
mmccubbins@ucsd.edu
http://polisci.ucsd.edu/faculty/mccubbins.htm
B.A., University of California, Irvine; M.S. and Ph.D., California Institue of Technology.
Professor McCubbins is a Distinguished Professor and the Chancellor's Associates Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also taught at the University of Texas, Stanford University, and Washington University in St. Louis. McCubbins is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. He is the co-author of five books, "The Logic of Delegation" (University of Chicago Press, 1991), winner of the APSA's 1992 Gladys M. Kammerer Award; "Legislative Leviathan" (University of California Press, 1993), winner of the APSA's Legislative Studies Section's 1994 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize; "The Democratic Dilemma; Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?" (Cambridge University Press, 1998); and "Stealing the Initiatives" (Prentice-Hall 2000) and "Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the US House of Representative" (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He is also editor or co-editor of seven additional books and has authored and co-authored more than eighty scientific or law articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, with one winning the Congressional Quarterly Prize for the best article of legislative politics. Professor McCubbins was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science in 1994-95. He served as a co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization for eight year (Oxford University Press).
R.
Michael Alvarez
Professor of Political Science, Caltech,
Associate Director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study
of Law and Politics
rma@hss.caltech.edu
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/people/faculty/rma
R. Michael Alvarez was selected by Scientific American magazine to be on the 2004 “Scientific American 50” for his outstanding scientific and technological contributions to help improve the U.S. voting system. He has taught political science at Caltech since December 1992. He received his B.A. in political science in 1986 from Carleton College; he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University in 1990 and 1992, respectively. Alvarez was named an Associate Professor in April 1995, received tenure in June 1997, and was promoted to Professor in March 2002. Alvarez has focused most of his research and teaching on the study of electoral politics in the United States. His first book, Information and Elections, was published in the spring of 1997: This project examined the question of how much American voters know about presidential candidates and how they obtain that information. His second book, Hard Choices, Easy Answers (with John Brehm), is a study of American public opinion about divisive social and political issues. His recent book (published January 2004), Point, Click, and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting (with Thad E. Hall), published by Brookings Institution Press, examines the controversies swirling around the Internet voting in the United States. He has also published many articles on electoral behavior and public opinion in the United States and other advanced industrial democratic nations.
Alvarez has received a number of honors and grants for his work. He was named the “Emerging Scholar” by the American Political Science Association’s Voting Behavior and Public Opinion Section in 2002. He was a John M. Olin Faculty Fellow (1994-95) as well as a John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Faculty Fellow (1994, 1997, 1999, 2002). Alvarez received the Sprague Award with John Brehm for their work on public opinion, and the Durr Award with Jonathan Nagler for their work on modeling elections. Also, Alvarez has received financial support for his research from the National Science Foundation, The IBM Corporation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Knight Foundation. Alvarez edits the Analytical Methods for Social Research book series and is on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals: American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Quarterly, Election Law Journal, Political Behavior, The Journal of Politics and Political Research Quarterly. He was the editor of The Political Methodologist, 1993-96. Professor Alvarez is Co-Director of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project, researching technological solutions to electoral problems, and is the Principal Investigator of the “Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment” Evaluation.
He has been an expert witness in a series of recent court cases, including California’s defense of the blanket primary (California Democratic Party v. Jones), Bradley v. Compton, and Cano v. Davis. He has testified before a number of organizations, including the U.S. Senate. He was an outside consultant for Knight Ridder on their 2000 Hispanic Voter Poll, and in 2004 is a consultant to Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner Research Inc. in their research on the Hispanic electorate. Alvarez is a frequent guest on Pasadena’s National Public Radio affiliate, KPCC-FM, and writes opinion pieces for local newspapers. He has been interviewed for National Public Radio, Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour, CNN, ABC, NBC News, and for many state, national and international newspapers.
John
Barnes
Assistant Professor Department of Political
Science, USC
barnesj@usc.edu
http://www.usc.edu/dept/polsci/faculty/barnes.htm
After receiving his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School, Jeb practiced as a commercial litigator in Boston and San Francisco. In 1994, he left the practice of law to pursue a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, he won the Peter Odegard Memorial Award for the most promising scholar, an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for teaching excellence, and numerous fellowships, including a Charles Atwood Kofoid Eugenics Fellowship, a Henry Robert Braden Scholarship, and a Phi Beta Kappa Research Fellowship. In 2002, his dissertation won special recognition from the Law & Society Association, which described his work as "magnificent." He has published on the politics of reforming the American legal system and voting process, and has two books forthcoming: Overruled? Pluralism, Court-Congress Relations and Legislative Overrides in an Age of Statutes from Stanford University Press and a co-edited volume entitled Putting the Pieces Together: American Policy-Making from an Inter-Branch Perspective from Georgetown University Press. In Spring 2003, Jeb was one of five political scientists nationwide to receive a Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship to study health policy in the United States. He will be on leave from 2003 to 2005.
Linda
R. Cohen
Professor of Economics, UC Irvine
Professor of Social Science and Law, USC Law School
lrcohen@uci.eduhttp://www.faculty.uci.edu/scripts/ucifacultyprofiles/detaildept.cfm?id=2222
Professor Cohen's research lies at the intersection of economics, law and political economy. She also holds an appointment as Professor of Economics at the University of California at Irvine. Her current research focuses on government policies for research and innovation and on the relationship between the judicial and legislative branches in formulating administrative policies. Her publications include The Technology Pork Barrel (with Roger Noll; Brookings Institution, 1991), "When can Government Subsidize Research Joint Ventures? Politics, Economics and Limits to Technology Policy," (American Economic Review, 84( 2), 1994), "Judicial Deference to Agency Action: A Rational Choice Theory and an Empirical Test," (with Matthew Spitzer, Southern California Law Review, 69 (2), 1996); "The Government Litigant Advantage: Implications for the Law," (with Matthew Spitzer, Florida State University Law Review, 2000), and "Intellectual Property, Antitrust and the New Economy," (with Roger Noll, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 62 (3), Spring 2001). Professor Cohen is a fellow and member of the California Council for Science and Technology, and recently served on two National Research Council committees, the Committee on Information Technology: Research in a Competitive World and the Committee on the Benefits of DOE Research and Development on Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy. She is also a member of the Advisory Panel for the Public Interest Energy Research Program for the California Energy Commission.
Kareem Crayton
Assistant Professor of Law, USC Law School
kcrayton@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=208
B.A. Harvard College, magna cum laude, 1995; J.D/ Ph.D. Stanford University 2002
Professor Crayton specializes in voting rights and election law, political representation, comparative constitutional law, and race politics. He teaches Civil Procedure, Election Law and Comparative Constitutional Law.
Professor Crayton's current research focuses on the efforts to renew the 1985 Voting Rights Act as well as on the design and reform of electoral systems in new and racially diverse democracies. his research also has focused on the legal and political effects of the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial "racial gerrymandering" decisions on Southern legislatures and electorates in the 1990s. His political science dissertation, titled "Whats New about the New South," explores many of these themes.
Before joining USC Law in 2005, Professor Crayton served as the inaugural Vanderbilt Fellow at the Vanderbilt Law School. He worked as a foreign law clerk for The Honorable Sandile Ngcobo, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and the Honorable Harry Edwards, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Crayton is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, and holds a law degree as well as a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University.
Crayton's presentations include, "Minority Political Participation," Western Political Science Association (2005); "Mergers as a Voting Rights Violation," delivered at Vanderbilt Univeristy Law School Workshop (2005); "The Voting Rights Act After 40 Years," delivered at American Political Science Association (2005); and "The Constitutional Case for a Renewed Voting Rights Act," delivered at Loyola Law School Faculty Workshop (2004).
Ann
Crigler
Chair, Department of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, USC
acrigler@usc.edu
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/faculty/faculty1003185.html
Ann N. Crigler is a Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research examines how people understand and learn about politics from the news media. She has co-authored several publications on this subject as well as a book entitled Common Knowledge: News and the Construction of Political Meaning with W.R. Neuman and M. Just (University of Chicago Press, 1992). Her most recent books include an edited volume, The Psychology of Political Communication (University of Michigan Press, 1996), and a co-authored book on media and the 1992 presidential campaign entitled Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates and the Media in a Presidential Campaign with M. Just, D. Alger, T. Cook, M. Kern and D. West (University of Chicago Press, 1996). She is currently working on a study of emotions, political participation and the media in the 1996 presidential campaign and a study of television news across the United States. These projects are supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Before joining the faculty at USC in 1988, she taught at Tufts University, Wellesley College and M.I.T. She was the Appleman Fellow and adjunct research associate at the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1991-1994. During the 1995-96 academic year, she was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, Professor Crigler is a member of the governing council of the International Society of Political Psychology and is on the editorial boards of Political Research Quarterly and Political Communication. She is the former Vice President and President of the Western Political Science Association.
John
de Figueiredo
Professor at the Strategy and Policy Department
UCLA, Anderson School of Management
jdefig@anderson.ucla.edu
Professor de Figueiredo’s primary fields of research are law and economics and non-market strategy. His research examines how firms use political influence, regulatory lobbying, strategic litigation, and other “non-market” strategies to enhance competitive performance. His current work in the field has examined corporate legislative and regulatory lobbying behavior in telecommunications, health care, and other high technology industries. de Figueiredo’s secondary fields of interest are the management of technology and the management of non-profits. His papers have appeared in leading economics, management, and law journals.
Prior to joining the UCLA Anderson School, Professor de Figueiredo was on the faculties of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
de Figueiredo has taught MBA students, Ph.D. students, and executives in a variety of different programs. His main teaching interest has been the core MBA Strategic Management course, and he has recently developed and taught a new MBA elective course on corporate non-market strategy, introducing techniques to company executives on managing the media, activists, government, and international bodies to achieve the objectives of the corporation. He also teaches competitive strategy, non-market strategy, and organizational change at the executive level. In 2004, he won the Excellence in Teaching Award for MBA teaching while at MIT.
Prior to joining academia, Professor de Figueiredo was a strategic management consultant at Monitor Company for a number of years, where he served on a team of consultants that started the company’s Spanish practice and Madrid office.
Howard
Gillman
Dean, USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Professor of Political Science, History and Law
gillman@usc.edu
http://www.usc.edu/dept/polsci/gillman/
Howard Gillman is a Professor of Political Science, History, and Law, and Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement. He specializes in constitutionalism, the U.S. Supreme Court, and judicial politics. His most recent book is The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election (University of Chicago Press, 2001). His first book, The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence (Duke University Press, 1993), received the C. Herman Pritchett Award for "best book in public law" from the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association. He is also co-editor and contributor to two other books on the Supreme Court: Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations (University Press of Kansas, 1999).
Professor Gillman has published numerous articles in journals such as The American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, and Studies in American Political Development. He has served on the editorial boards of Political Research Quarterly and Law and Social Inquiry. He is currently co-editor (with Maeva Marcus, Mark Tushnet, and Melvin Urofsky) of the book series Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution. He has been invited to present his research at a number of universities, including Harvard, Yale, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Georgetown, the University of Virginian, UCLA, Ohio State, the University of Washington, and the University of Texas at Austin.
In 1997 he was elected to the Executive Committee of the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association. For the past nine years he has also acted as the founder and moderator of the section's official e-mail discussion group, known as "lawcourts-l." He was a member of the Program Committees for the 2001 meeting of the American Society of Legal History and for the 1996 meeting of the American Political Science Association. From 2003-2005 he Chaired the Membership Committee of the Law and Society Association, and in 2005 he was elected to the LSA's Board of Trustees. He is currently on the Executive Board of the Western Political Science Association. He previously organized the Law and Courts panels for the Western Political Science Association's annual meeting. He has twice received the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for "best paper" presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association. In 2001 he received the American Judicature Society Award for the best paper on law and courts presented the previous year at a national or regional political science conference.
He has received a number of university and departmental awards for teaching excellence and dedication to students, including the University's highest recognition, the USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching (2001). In 1999 he became a Faculty Fellow at USC's Center for Excellence in Teaching and in 2001 he became a Distinguished Faculty Fellow. Among the undergraduate courses he teaches are POSC 130g Law and Public Policy; POSC 165g Modern Times; POSC 340 Constitutional Law; POSC 426 The United States Supreme Court; POSC 444 Civil and Political Rights and Liberties; POSC 443 Law in Film. Among the graduate courses he teaches are POSC 540 Seminar on Law and Public Policy; POSC 619 Seminar in Supreme Court Politics; POSC 623 Seminar in American Constitutional Development; POSC 624 Seminar in American Constitutional Law and Theory; POSC 660 Seminar in Problems of Contemporary Political Thought -- Marxism and Pragmatism (with Professor Judith Grant).
Professor Gillman received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1988 and has been on the faculty at USC since 1990. He was appointed Chair of the Political Science Department in Fall 2004 and Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement in June 2005.
Tim Groseclose
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Political Science
timothyg@ucla.edu
http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/menu/people/faculty/timothy_groseclose.php
B.S. (with Distinction) Stanford University in Mathematical and Computational Science and Economics
Ph.D. Stanford University, Graduate School of Business in Political Economy
Tim Groseclose is a professor of political science and economics at UCLA.
He has previously held faculty appointments at Stanford, Ohio State, Harvard, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon. He received his PhD from Stanford's Graduate School of Business in 1992. He has published in many scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, the American Political Science Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the American Journal of Political Science. He is currently writing a book on media bias.
Gillian Hadfield
USC Gould School of Law, Professor of Law
ghadfield@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=220
B.A.H., Queen's University (Canada); J.D., Stanford Law School; M.A., Ph.D. in Economics, Stanford University
Professor Hadfield's scholarship focuses on the design of legal and dispute resolution systems, contract law and theory, economic analysis of law, and gender in economics and law. She served as clerk to Chief Judge Patricia Wald on the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. Prior to joining the faculty at USC, she was on the law faculty at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Toronto, and a member of the faculty of the Global Law School at New York University. Professor Hadfield was National Fellow at the Hoover Institution in 1993, and Senior Visiting Olin Fellow at Columbia Law School in 1998. She has also held Olin Fellowships at Cornell Law School and USC. She served as President of the Canadian Law and Economics Association and Director of the American Law and Economics Association. Her publications include "The Price of Law: How the Market for Lawyers Distorts the Justice System;" "Private Commercial Law: Developments in Cyberspace;" "Privatizing Commercial Law: Lessons from ICANN;" "Of Sovereignty and Contract: On Damages for Breach of Contract by Government;" "An Expressive Theory of Contract: From Feminist Dilemmas to a Reconceptualization of Rational Choice in Contract Law;" "A Coordination Model of the Sexual Division of Labor;" and "An Information-Based Approach to Labeling Biotechnology Products."
Professor Hadfield teaches Contract Law, Legal Profession, Theories of Conflict and Dispute Resolution and Empirical Studies of the Legal System.
Zoltan HajnalAssociate Professor, University of California, San Diego
zhajnal@ucsd.edu
http://polisci.ucsd.edu/faculty/hajnal.html
A scholar of racial and ethnic politics, urban politics, direct democracy, and political behavior, Dr. Zoltan Hajnal has published in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Social Science Quarterly, and numerous other journals and edited volumes. His published work has focused on minority representation, racial segregation, interest group politics, and neighborhood poverty. Dr. Hajnal has recently completed a book entitled, Changing White Attitudes Toward Black Political Leadership, that outlines the impact of black mayoral leadership on white racial attitudes and voting behavior.
Before joining the faculty at UCSD, Dr. Hajnal was a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Brandeis University. He has received numerous honors for his research and writing including the Best Paper in Urban Politics Award at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Richard
L. Hasen
William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law
rick.hasen@lls.edu
http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/hasen.html
After law school, Richard Hasen clerked for the Honorable David R. Thompson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then worked as a civil appellate lawyer at the Encino firm of Horvitz and Levy. From 1994-1997, Hasen taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He joined Loyola's faculty in 1997 as a visiting professor and became a member of the full-time faculty in fall 1998. In 2005, he was named the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law. Hasen is a nationally-recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation, is co-author of a leading casebook on election law and co-editor of the quarterly peer-reviewed publication, Election Law Journal. He is the author of more than three dozen articles on election law issues. In 2002, Hasen was named one of the 20 top lawyers in California under age 40 by the Los Angeles (and San Francisco) Daily Journal and one of the top 100 lawyers in California in 2005. Hasen also writes the widely read "Election law blog." His most recent book, The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore, was published by NYU Press in 2003.
Matthew
O. Jackson
Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Economics, Caltech
jacksonm@hss.caltech.edu
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~jacksonm/Jackson.html
Jackson joined the Caltech faculty in 1997 leaving Northwestern University where he had held since 1995 two named professorships and the chairmanship of the department of managerial economics and decision sciences, significant accomplishments for a scholar only 8 years after completing his Ph.D. He was and continues to be one of the stars of economic theory -- making significant contributions to the fields of implementation theory, mechanism design, finance, game theory, and social choice theory. He is a fellow of the prestigious Econometric Society and most recently was the first recipient of the Social Choice and Welfare's Society prize honoring young scholars of excellent accomplishment.
Jonathan
Katz
Professor of Political Science, Caltech
jkatz@hss.caltech.edu
http://jkatz.caltech.edu/
Introduction to Gary W. Cox & Jonathan N. Katz, Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral
Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution (Cambridge
University Press 2002).
D.
Roderick Kiewiet
Professor of Political Science, Caltech
drk@hss.caltech.edu
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~drk/
John
O. Ledyard
Allen & Lenabelle Davis Professor
of Economics and Social Science, Caltech
jledyard@hss.caltech.edu
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/personal/jledyard
John Matsusaka
Professor of Finance and Business Economics
and Law, Marshall School of Business, USC, President of
Initiative and Referendum Institute
matsusak@usc.edu
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~matsusak
John G. Matsusaka is Professor of Finance and Business Economics and Law in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Initiative and Referendum Institute in Washington D.C. Matsusaka received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, and has held visiting appointments at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, UCLA, Caltech, and the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the financing, governance, and organization of corporations and governments. He has published numerous scholarly articles, and is completing a book on the initiative process titled, For the Many or the Few: How the Initiative Process Changes American Government.
Edward
J. McCaffery
Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
dean@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=237
B.A., Yale University; J.D., Harvard University; M.A. Economics, University of Southern California. Clerked for The Honorable Robert N. Wilentz, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
Edward McCaffery joined the USC Law faculty in 1989. An internationally recognized expert in tax law, Professor McCaffery studies tax policy, tax structures, public finance theory including behavioral public finance, as well as property law and theory, intellectual property, and law and economics. He teaches Federal Income Taxation, Property, Intellectual Property, and Tax Law and Policy at USC, and Law and Economics and Law and Technology at the California Instiutute of Technology.
Professor McCaffery's scholarship has been widely cited by economists, government officials, journalists and policy analysts. Among his publications are his recent books, Behavioral Public Finance (which McCaffery co-edited), Flat: How to Make the Tax System Better and Simpler, which propses a tax system based on taxing spending rather than income; and Taxing Women examines how women suffer through current tax laws. Other publications include Rethinking the Voter: The Politics and Prospects of American Election Reform, which he co-edited. Another book, A New Understanding of Property will be published later this year.
A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, Professor McCaffery received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law Schol and a master's degree in economics from USC. He served as a clerk to Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court and was an attorney with Titchell, Maltzman, Mark, Bass, Ohleyer & Mishel before joining the USC Law faculty in 1989. He held the Maurice Jones Jr., Professorship in Law from 1998 to 2004 and has been a visiting professor of law and economics at the California Institute of Technology since 1994. He has chaired the USC Institute on Federal Taxation since 1997. He founded the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics and served as its director from 2000 to 2003. He is an elected fellow of the American Law Institute (ALI) and the American College of Tax Counsel. Professor McCaffery is of counsel to the Los Angeles office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, LLP.
Keith T. Pool
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
kpoole@ucsd.edu http://voteview.ucsd.edu
Keith T. Poole is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Rochester in 1978. In 2006 Professor Poole was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include methodology, political-economic history of American institutions, economic growth and entrepreneurship, and the political-economic history of railroads. He is the author or coauthor of over 40 articles as well as the author of Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting (Cambridge University Press, 2005), a coauthor of Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (MIT Press, 2006), Ideology In Congress (Transaction Press 2007), and Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting (Oxford University Press, 1997).
Ricardo
Ramirez
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and
the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, USC
ricardo.ramirez@usc.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Ricardo Ramírez is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His research interests include state and local politics, political behavior, and the politics of race and ethnicity, especially as they relate to participation, mobilization, and political incorporation. His writings include co-authoring "Are Naturalized Voters Driving the California Latino Electorate? Measuring the Impact of IRCA Citizens on Latino Voting" (with M. Barreto and N. Woods), “Citizens by Choice, Voters by Necessity: Patterns in Political Mobilization by Naturalized Latinos,” (with A. Pantoja and G. Segura), “Latino Political Incorporation in California, 1990-2000” (with L. Fraga), and “Unquestioned Influence: Latinos and the 2000 Election in California” (with L. Fraga and G. Segura). He is currently writing a book: "Continuity and Change: Latinos in American Politics Since 1990." His current projects include field experiments on the effects of elite mobilization efforts of Latino voters and on the role of gender and ethnicity on career paths in state legislatures since 1990.
Daniel B. Rodriguez
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego
B.A. 1984, California State University, Long Beach; J.D. 1987, Harvard University
Professor Rodriguez was Supreme Court editor of the Harvard Law Review and served as judicial law clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before coming to USD in the fall of 1998, Professor Rodriguez was a professor at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley for 10 years. He has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, and a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego and at McGeorge School of Law-Government Affairs Program. He has taught and lectured in the Netherlands, Japan, China and France. Professor Rodriguez teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, state and local government law, and legislation. Among his recent articles are The Positive Political Theory of Legislative History, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Localism and Lawmaking, Rutgers Law Journal and Straw Polls, Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Robert
P. Sherman
Associate Professor of Economics and Statistics,
Caltech
sherman@hss.caltech.edu
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/people/faculty/sherman
Matthew
L. Spitzer
Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Professor of Political Science
Professor of Law and Social Science, California Institute of Technology
mspitzer@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=311
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; J.D., University of Southern California; Ph.D. Social Science, California Institute of Technology.
Matthew L. Spitzer is an expert in law and economics, broadcast regulation, and communications and mass media law. He teaches Administrative Law, Broadcast Regulation and Economic Analysis of Law. He is a visiting associate in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology and holds a joint appointment wit USC's Department of Political Science.
Professor Spitzer's publications includes Public Policy Toward Cable Television, vol. 1; The Economics of Rate Controls (with Thomas W. Hazlett; AEI Press, 1997); Seven Dirty Words and Six Other Stories: Controlling the Content of Print and Broadcast (Yale University Pres, 1986): "Endowment Effects within Corporate Agency Relationships" (with Jennifer H. Arlen and Eric L. Talley; Journal of Legal Studies, 2002); and "Framing the Jury" (with Daniel Klerman and Edward J. McCaffery; in Behavioral Economics and the Law, Cambridge University Press, 2000). In addition to numerous other scholarly articles, he has published several articles relating to legal education and law school administration.
Professor Spitzer holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles; a J.D. from the University of Southern California; and a Ph.D. in social science from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to joing USC Law's faculty in 1981, he was an associate litigator with Nossaman, Krueger & Marsh and an assistant professor at Northwestern University School of Law. At USC, he has served as the director of the Olin Program in Law and Rational Choice and of the Center for Communications, Law and Policy. He is a member of the Beverly Hill Bar Association board of governors and of the Law School Council Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. He was the William T. Dalessi Professor of Law at USC from 1987 to 2000. He was the Dean and Carl M. Franklin Professor of Law from 2000 to 2006.
Barry Weingast
Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
weingast@stanford.edu
www.stanford.edu/group/polisci/faculty/weingast.html
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
Barry R. Weingast is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University; he served as chair of that department from 1996 to 2001. He is also a professor of economics, by courtesy, at the university. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 1993 to 1994.
Weingast is an expert in political economy and public policy, the political foundation of markets and economic reform, U.S. politics, and regulation. His current research focuses on the political determinants of public policymaking and the political foundations of markets and democracy.
Weingast is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the 2006 recipient of the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science. He received the Heinz Eulau Award for Best Paper from the American Political Science Review in 1987. With Charles Stewart, he received the Award for Best Paper in Political History by the American Political Science Association in 1994 and again in 1998.
He is also the recipient, along with Kenneth Schultz, of the Franklin L. Burdette Award for Best Paper Presented at the 1994 Political Science Association Meeting.
Weingast authored (with Robert Bates, Avner Grief, Margaret Levi, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal) Analytic Narratives, published in 1998. Weingast is editor, with Kenneth A. Shepsle, of Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions (University of Michigan Press, 1995); with Ira Katznelson, Of Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism (Russell Sage Press, 2005); and with Donald Wittman, Handbook of Political Economy (forthcoming, 2006).
Recent publications include The Institutional Sources of State Power in International Competition (with Kenneth A. Schultz); International Organization (2003); "The Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of Law," American Political Science Review (1997); "The Economic Role of Political Institutions," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (1995); "Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in 17th Century England" (with Douglas North), Journal of Economic History; "The Positive Political Theory of Legislative History: New Perspectives on the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its Interpretation (with Daniel Rodriguez), University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2003); "The Constitutional Dilemma of Economic Liberty" Journal of Economic Perspectives (2005); and "The New Separation of Powers Approach to American Politics" (with Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., Tonja Jacobi) in Barry R. Weingast and Donald Wittman, eds., Handbook of Political Economy (2006, forthcoming). Most recently, he has written on democracy and its failure in twentieth-century Spain, nineteenth-century United States, seventeenth-century England, and modern Chile.
Weingast earned a Ph.D. in economics from the California Institute of Technology in 1978.
Janelle
S. WongAssociate Professor of Political Science, USC and in the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, USC
janellew@usc.edu
Janelle Wong received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Yale University in 2001. She holds a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Program in American Studies and Ethnicity. Professor Wong is currently working on a manuscript that focuses on the political incorporation of Asian American and Latino immigrants in the United States. She has published articles on race, ethnicity and politics in Political Behavior, Social Science Quarterly, P.S.: Political Science and Politics, and the American Journal of Sociology. As part of the Multi-Site Asian American Political Study (MAAPS) research team, her current projects include analysis of the first multi-city, multi-lingual, multi-ethnic survey of Asian Americans' political attitudes and behavior. The findings from the study will be included in a book she is preparing with Pei-te Lien and M. Margaret Conway called Diversity and Community: Asian American political attitudes and behavior (forthcoming, Routledge). Professor Wong teaches courses on Interethnic Diversity and the West, Race and Politics, and Asian American Politics.