Welcome
I am an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia and an attorney. My scholarship and teaching focus on empirical legal studies, law and economics, and the quantitative examination of federal trial and appellate courts and judges, administrative agencies, and other legal actors. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and has appeared in places such as American Journal of Political Science, Journal
of Legal Studies, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Northwestern
Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Political Research Quarterly, and Law & Society Review.
In 2009, I received my Ph.D. in political science from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to graduate school, I received a B.A. with honors in political science from the University of Florida in 2001 and a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2004. I am a member of the North Carolina Bar (inactive), and I grew up in beautiful western Montana.