I am Horace T. Morse Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Minnesota and co-editor of the Journal of Law and Courts. I have published more than 70 articles, book chapters, and publicly facing papers, two monographs, and six books including SCOTUS and COVID (2023), Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court (2012), and Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the U.S. Supreme Court (2004). Findings from my work or legal commentary, appear in The Economist, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR (see Media and Outreach link for a full list). The Illinois Supreme Court and its clerks, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, and The Advocates Society of Canada and Canadian Supreme Court have sought my expertise. In 2024, I served on the Brown v. Board of Education Revisited Project advisory board and am the Academic Lead for On the Docket.

I have mentored or advised 33 graduate students more than 250 undergraduate projects (including 10 UROPS). In 2018 I was a semi-finalist for the Robert F. Cherry Award for Great Teaching and won the American Political Science Association's Distinguished Teaching Award.