Graduate Student Participation at Professional Conferences

2016

  • Donald R. Songer, Raul Sanchez Urribarri, Susanne Schorpp, and Vanessa Portela. "The Rights Revolution and Institutional Change." Midwest Political Science Association​
  • Donald R. Songer, Susanne Schorpp, and Rebecca Reid. "War and Gender: Gendered Differences in Making Tradeoffs Between Civil Liberties and National Security in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 1950-2007." Midwest Political Science Association​
  • Benjamin Kassow and Kirk A. Randazzo. "The Effect of Institutional Changes on Judicial Behavior in the U.S. Courts of Appeals." American Political Science Association 
  • Susanne Schorpp. "The Rule of Law in Times of War: The Effect of War on Canadian and U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making." American Political Science Association
  • Donald R. Songer and Jessica Link. " Debunking the Myths Surrounding the Attitudinal Model of Supreme Court Decision Making." American political Science Association
  • Benjamin Kassow and Charles J. Finocchiaro. "Responsiveness and Electoral Accountability in the U.S. Senate." Midwest Political Science Association
  • Michael Fix. "Are We Testing What We Think We're Testing? A Theoretical Evaluation of Methods for Testing Hypotheses About Temporal Changepoints." St. Louis Area Methods Meeting 
  • Susanne Schorpp and Kirk A. Randazzo. "Fear of Reversal by the Supreme Court? Testing Strategic Anticipation in a Judicial Hierarchy." Southern Political Science Association
  • Michael P. Fix. "A Signaling Game of Judicial Review and Agency Implementation." Southern Political Science Association
  • Susanne Schorpp and Charles Finocchiaro. "Congressional Deference to Executive Interests During Times of War." Southern Political Science Association
  • Benjamin Kassow. "Issue Salience, Amicus Briefs and Institutional Structures: Impacts on State Supreme Court Decision-Making." Southern Political Science Association​
  • Rebecca Reid. "Statutory Language and the Separation of Powers." American Political Science Association
  • Donald R. Songer, Miroslava Radieva, and Rebecca Reid. "Critical Mass and the Effect of Female Judges on Voting Patterns and Rate of Dissent in Canadian Courts of Appeal." Midwest Political Science Association
  • Rebecca Reid and Kirk Randazzo. "Bottom-up or top-down? Courts and International Norms." Southern Political Science Association​
  • Michael P. Fix. "Are All Agencies Equal: An Examination of Variation in Agency Success Rates in the U.S. Courts of Appeals." Southern Political Science Association
  • Susanne Schorpp. "The Effect of War on U.K. House of Lords and U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making." Southern Political Science Association ​

2007

  • Monica Lineberger. "Comparing Judiciaries Cross-Nationally: The Opportunity and Willingness Framework." American Political Science Association
  • Ali S. Masood. "Precedent in a Hierarchy: The Impact of Supreme Court Signaling on the U.S. Courts of Appeals." Midwest Political Science Association
  • Ali S. Masood. "The Impact of Supreme Court Precedent in a Judicial Hierarchy." American Political Science Association

2015

2009

  • Raul Sanchez Urribarri, Donald R. Songer, and Susanne Schorpp. "Towards a Multivariate Model to Explain Changes of Rights Litigation and Protection Comparatively." Midwest Political Science Association
  • Susanne Schorpp, Raul Sanchez Urribarri, and Donald R. Songer. "What Rights in the 'Rights Revolution'? Analyzing Criminal and other Civil rights Cases Separately." Southern Political Science Association​
  • Michael P. Fix, Daniel S. Morey, and Kirk A. Randazzo. "The Strategic Presidency During Confirmation: Rhetoric, Uncertainty and the Selling of Supreme Court Nominees." American Political Science Association
  • Susanne Schorpp, Donald R. Songer, Tajuana Massie, Rebeccah Boxt, and Mary McDonald. "The Effect of War on the U.S. Federal Courts of Appeals: An Analysis of U.S. Appeals Court Treatment of War Related Cases." American Political Science Association
  • Susanne Schorpp. "U.S. Supreme Court Decision making on Foreign Policy Cases During Wartime." Midwest Political Science Association
  • Kirk A. Randazzo, Richard W. Waterman, and Michael P. Fix. "State Supreme Courts and the Effects of Statutory Constraint: A Test of the Model of Contingent Discretion." Southern Political Science Association
  • Benjamin Kassow, Donald R. Songer, and Michael P. Fix. "The Influence of Precedent on State Supreme Courts." Southern Political Science Association​
  • Ali S. Masood, Monica Lineberger, and Benjamin Kassow. "Improving Inferences with Count Outcomes." Society for Political Methodology
  • Monica Lineberger. "The Elevation of Appeals Court Judges to the Top Court: A Strategic Cross-National Perspective." American Political Science Association
  • Ali S. Masood. " Supreme Court Signaling and the Hierarchical Impact of Precedent." American Political Science Association
  • Rebecca Reid. "National High Courts as Leaders? International Human Rights Laws, Regional Courts, and Domestic High Courts." American Political Science Association​
  • Monica Lineberger. "Deference or Preference?: Party Capability in the European Court of Human Rights." Midwest Political Science Association
  • Ali S. Masood and Donald Songer. "The Importance of Circuits: Appeals Court Responses to Supreme Court Precedent." Midwest Political Science Association
  • Ali S. Masood and Monica Lineberger. "United Kingdom, United Courts? The Impact of Supreme Court Precedent in the British Judiciary." Southern Political Science Association​
  • TJ Kimel. "Party Capability, Resource Inequality, and Judicial Legitimacy: A Cross National Test of African High Courts." Southern Political Science Association​ 
  • Amanda Jones and Martha Humphries Ginn. "Hitting Close to Home: Are Local Communities More Aware of SCOTUS Decisions that Impact Them? Georgia Political Science Association​

2013

2012

  • Amanda Jones, Martha Humphries Ginn, and Kathleen Searles. "Who Cares About the Robed 9? Assessing Opinion Change Following a SCOTUS Decision in the Field." ​Georgia Political Science Association​
  • Ali S. Masood and Benjamin J. Kassow. "Uncertain Compliance, Salient Decisions? Compliance with U.S. Supreme Court Decisions." American Political Science Association
  • Ali S. Masood, Benjamin J. Kassow, and Donald R. Songer. "Legal Salience and the Impact of Supreme Court Precedent on the Courts Below." Midwest Political Science Association​
  • Rebecca Reid, Kirk Randazzo, Douglas Gibler. "Examining the Development of Judicial Independence." Midwest Political Science Association​.
  • TJ Kimel and Kirk Randazzo. "Party Capability Theory in African High Courts - A Comparative and Strategic Analysis." Midwest Political Science Association​
  • Ali S. Masood and Benjamin J. Kassow. " Uncertain Compliance, Salient Decisions? Compliance with U.S. Supreme Court Decisions." ​American Political Science Association
  • Ali S. Masood and Kirk A Randazzo. "Supreme Court Summary Decisions and Lower Court Compliance: Reexamining the Principal-Agent Model in a Judicial Hierarchy." ​Southern Political Science Association
  • Ali S. Masood and Donald R. Songer " Was the Rehnquist Court Really Conservative? Southern Political Science Association​


2010

2008

2011

2014

  • Monica Lineberger and Ali S. Masood. "Reconsidering Judicial Selection: Court Composition and Why it Matters." Normative Implications of Empirical Research Workshop
  • Monica Lineberger and Kirk Randazzo. "Institutional Changes in the European Court of Human Rights." Midwest Political Science Association
  • Ali S. Masood, Benjamin J. Kassow, and Donald R. Songer. "Law, Precedent and Policy: The Effect of Legally Salient Precedent on U.S. Supreme Court Treatment." Midwest Political Science Association​ 
  • Rebecca Reid. "Judicial Institutionalization of International Human RIghts Laws: The Role of Global Civil Society and INGOs." Midwest Political Science Association
  • ​Amanda Jones, Martha Humphries Ginn, and Kathleen Searles. "Vouching for the Court? How High Stakes Affect Knowledge and Support of the Supreme Court." ​Southern Political Science Association
  • TJ Kimel. "Voting Right - Examining Influences on Voting Sincerity on the State Supreme Courts." Southern Political Science Association​
  • TJ Kimel. "Making up their Minds: Decision Making on State Supreme Courts." Southern Political Science Association​
  • Rebecca Reid. "Judicial Institutionalization of International Human RIghts Laws." Southern Political Science Association​ 
  • Monica Lineberger. "A Comparative Analysis of Human Rights Litigation of the European Union." Southern Political Science Association
  • Ali S. Masood. "Deciding How to Decide: Re-evaluating Decision-Making Stages in the U.S. Supreme Court." Southern Political Science Association​
  • Ali S. Masood and Donald R. Songer. "A Cross-National Analysis of Gender Effects on Judicial Outcomes." Southern Political Science Association​
  • Lee D. Walker and Monica Lineberger. "The Legal Model of Judicial Decision Making and Regime Change: The Case of Nicaragua." Southern Political Science Association
  • Ali S. Masood and Benjamin J. Kassow. " The Influence of Justices on U.S. Supreme Court Precedent." American Political Science Association.
  • Monica Lineberger. "Shifting Tides: Executive Actions in Manipulating Judicial Authority in Transitory Periods." Midwest Political Science Association
  • Monica Lineberger and Ali S. Masood. "Precedents in High Courts: A Cross-National Analysis of Hierarchical Relationships in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada." Midwest Political Science Association​
  • Monica Lineberger and Ali S. Masood. " Courts in Control?: A Cross-National Analysis of Hierarchical Relationships in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada." Southern Political Science Association​