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Professional Preparation
Ph.D. - Political Science Ohio State University - 2009
J.D. The University of Texas School of Law - 2004
B.A. Hendrix College - 2001
Research Areas
Judicial Decision Making, Legal Policy, Attorneys and Politics, and Judicial Politics
Publications
Explaining the Divergence in Asylum Grant Rates Among Immigration Judges:
An Attitudinal and Cognitive Approach, Law and Policy (forthcoming) (with
Linda Camp Keith and Jennifer Holmes). 2013 - Publication
Experts Judging Experts: Agency Review on a Specialized Court. Law and
Social Inquiry (forthcoming) (with Brett Curry). 2013 - Publication
“Describing the State Solicitors General.” Judicature 93: 238-246. 2010 - Publication
Describing the State Solicitors General. Judicature 93: 238-246. 2010 - Publication
Expertise, Experience and Ideology on a Specialized Court: The Case of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Law & Society Review 43: 839-864 (with Brett Curry). 2009 - Publication
The Federalist Society's Impact on the Federal Judiciary. Political Research Quarterly 62: 366-378 (with Nancy Scherer). 2009 - Publication
Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places? Foreign Law and Support for the U.S. Supreme Court. Politics and Policy 36: 1094-1124 (with Brett Curry). 2008 - Publication
Appointments
Assistant Professor University of Texas at Dallas [2009–Present]
Projects
Understanding Subject Matter Expertise on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, with Brett Curry
2010–2010Presented at the 2010 Midwest Political Science Association Conference.
Experts Judging Experts: The Role of Expertise in Reviewing Agency Decision Making
2010–2010with Brett Curry. Presented at the 2010 Southern Political Science Association Conference.
Experts in Crime: The Effect of an Exclusively Criminal Docket on Judicial Behavior
2009–2009with Dino Christenson and Brett Curry. Presented at the 2009 Southern Political Science Association Conference.
State Solicitors in State Litigation
2008–2008Presented at the 2008 American Political Science Conference.
State Success in State Supreme Courts.
2008–2008Presented at the 2008 State Politics Conference.
Immigrants seeking asylum are better off without a lawyer than with a poor quality one, according to a new study by three political science researchers at UT Dallas.
Having an attorney is one of the strongest predictors of whether an applicant will win political asylum, previous research has shown. But the UT Dallas researchers found that simply having a lawyer is no guarantee. The attorney’s capability is a primary factor in whether an applicant will win asylum or be deported. The research by Dr. Banks Miller, assistant professor, Dr. Linda Camp Keith, associate professor, and Dr. Jennifer Holmes, associate professor and head of the political science program, was published in the March edition of Law & Society Review. The three professors, all in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, also are authors of the 2015 book, Immigration Judges and U.S. Asylum Policy.
Immigrants seeking asylum are better off without a lawyer than with a poor quality one, according to a new study by three political science researchers at UT Dallas.
Having an attorney is one of the strongest predictors of whether an applicant will win political asylum, previous research has shown. But the UT Dallas researchers found that simply having a lawyer is no guarantee. The attorney’s capability is a primary factor in whether an applicant will win asylum or be deported. The research by Dr. Banks Miller, assistant professor, Dr. Linda Camp Keith, associate professor, and Dr. Jennifer Holmes, associate professor and head of the political science program, was published in the March edition of Law & Society Review. The three professors, all in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, also are authors of the 2015 book, Immigration Judges and U.S. Asylum Policy.
The dismissals of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006 generated headlines, congressional hearings and accusations that the decisions were politically motivated. Although a federal investigation called the decision-making process in the firings unsystematic and arbitrary, new UT Dallas research argues that it was not as haphazard as many thought. The study, published in the Journal of Law and Courts, found evidence that four of the attorneys were dismissed because they were in the path of the least political resistance.
The dismissals of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006 generated headlines, congressional hearings and accusations that the decisions were politically motivated. Although a federal investigation called the decision-making process in the firings unsystematic and arbitrary, new UT Dallas research argues that it was not as haphazard as many thought. The study, published in the Journal of Law and Courts, found evidence that four of the attorneys were dismissed because they were in the path of the least political resistance.