Christina L. Boyd
@TheCLBoyd
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Prof @WashULaw @WUSTLPoliSci | Studies judicial behavior & diversity; trial courts; empirical legal studies | Views my own
St. Louis, MO
Joined October 2014
🎉Today is finally the release date for our book Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (@stanfordpress; w/ Paul Collins & @Lring86)! While I love the book’s cover, I’m also very excited for you to see what is inside. Here’s a preview 🧵: 1/
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None of this recent activity involving MTG was on my bingo card for 2025
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Huge congrats to my terrific colleague Jim Spriggs (with Tim Johnson and Paul Wahlbeck) on winning the Law & Courts Lasting Contribution Award this year for their work on Supreme Court oral arguments!
As we previously posted, the @APSAtweets Awards were presented last week at their annual conference. One award, Law & Courts Lasting Contribution Award, is a special award for us as multiple faculty and PhD students have received it. Check out the slides to see the stats!
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LSU is hiring at the assistant level in Comparative (open specialization), and two positions in Judicial Politics. CP job should post soon and judicial job is live. I’m on the CP search committee but happy to answer questions about both searches!
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The ABA is considering increasing the experiential credits law students must take to graduate. However, in new research, we find that the ABA's last experiential increase did not improved bar passage rates or employment outcomes.
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It took almost two years, but Google Scholar now even has our author order correct for Supreme Bias! ( https://t.co/LxGmPforz7)
#thelittlethings
Exciting (to me) update...Lori and I are now recognized authors of our book among booksellers like Amazon. I'm still listed as the third author of the book per the official Google Scholar citation 🤯 but hope spring eternal on that one too.
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We (w/ @mjnelson7, Ostrander, Boldt) wrote a book on the politics of federal prosecution but recent events necessitate a large new volume! https://t.co/4hydPxkUTw
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For folks looking for some stats about the Court, Epstein, @WashUChancellor, and I have a preliminary report on the term: https://t.co/APOvs5x1ux. Hopefully this will be useful for teaching. SCDB data update will be out in August.
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Guess I can't submit a paper to CELS this year.... "Error: maximum paper size is 2 megabytes, your paper is 2.0009765625 megabytes."
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Very similar to the path of my jokes in class. 😬 😂 Some swish, some hit the rim but the students eventually get them and laugh, and some bounce far away (or air ball?).
The path of every jump shot that's bounced off the rim this postseason.
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The research provides important insights into criminal adjudications in the U.S. and includes "expanding, testing, and disseminating novel plea-simulation software designed for both research and educational purposes." 2/2
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File this under "cool research" . . . In 2019, the NSF funded Wilford's CAREER grant "A system of pleas: Using a role-playing simulation to test plea decision models." 1/
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Current SCDB flat data files (along with lots more info on the SCDB) are here: https://t.co/VsdGN1hjAg Online queryable data--one of my personal favorite features of the modern SCBD--are available through 2023 here: https://t.co/sHT7f47m5A 4/
scdb.la.psu.edu
The Supreme Court Database is the definitive source for researchers, students, journalists, and citizens interested in the U.S. Supreme Court. The Database contains over two hundred pieces of...
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The SCDB contains 247 pieces of info across 6 categories of variables: identifiers, background, chronological, substantive, outcome, and voting/opinion. 3/
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The database "is a comprehensive, public, multi-user data resource containing information about every case decided by the United States Supreme Court from its first decision in 1791 to today." 2/
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After a little STL tornado delay...let's get back to highlighting some great NSF-sponsored projects. Today's highlight has significant STL connections and has made multiple generations of scholarship (and journalism and teaching) better: The U.S. Supreme Court Database (SCDB) 1/
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Initial survey of the May 16 St Louis tornado. The tornado likely continued much further into IL and survey teams will continue to assess over the coming days. Tornado began in Clayton at 2:41 pm, up to 1 mile wide, EF3 (150mph) intensity. The path is at least 8 miles so far...
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