I am Horace T. Morse Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law (by courtesy) at the University of Minnesota. 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), A Good Quarrel (2009), and Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the U.S. Supreme Court (2004). Findings from many of these projects, along with my legal and political commentary, have appeared in The Economist, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and on NPR (see my Media and Outreach page for a full list). Members of the Illinois Supreme Court and its clerks, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and The Advocates Society of Canada and Canadian Supreme Court, have sought my expertise. In 2024, I served on the advisory board of the Brown v. Board of Education Revisited Project and currently serve as the Academic Lead for On the Docket.

I have mentored or advised 33 graduate students and overseen 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.