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Lee Epstein is the Provost Professor of Law and Political Science and the Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California. Before moving to USC, she held the Henry Wade Rogers Professorship, a University-wide chair, at Northwestern University and was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2004, she was designated a Thorsten Sellin Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; and in 2006 she was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Epstein's interests center on the U.S. Supreme Court, constitutional courts abroad, judicial behavior, and constitutional law. Recent research projects, undertaken with colleagues throughout the United States, include Why (and When) Judges Dissent (Journal of Legal Studies); Strategic Defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court (American Journal of Political Science), which examines the circumstances leading lower courts to comply with/defy higher courts; and Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging(American Journal of Political Science), which explores whether male and female judges decide cases distinctly and whether the presence of a female judge on a panel causes her male colleagues to behave differently.

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