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Tonja Jacobi
Field:
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Political Science and Foreign Affairs
Focus Areas:
Affordable Care Act (ACA), American Culture and Politics, Capital Punishment, Constitutional Rights, Criminal Justice, Gender Diversity and Equality, LGBTQ Rights, Policing, Predictive Analytics, Same-sex Marriage, U.S. Courts System
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Hilary Hurd Anyaso
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Professor of Law
About
Areas of Focus
- Supreme Court oral arguments
- Constitutional criminal procedure
- Judicial politics
- Public law
- Game theory
Work/Research
- Supreme Court decision-making, opinion writing, voting, oral arguments, doctrinal development, judicial nominations and retirement, coalition-formation and agenda-setting through signaling
- How political institutions interact to shape the law, particularly constitutional law and constitutional criminal procedure
- How provisions of the U.S. Constitution contribute to its stability
- Use of federalism to transform minority positions into majority positions
- Supreme Court rulings on the Affordable Care Act
- Development of same-sex marriage rights
- Impact of parole requirements on individual and community rights
- The Miranda doctrine's failure to protect the rights of the innocent
- Use of warrants and the Terry doctrine
- Impact of public opinion on death penalty decisions
- Gender and law
Career
Jacobi has a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University, a master's from the University of California, Berkeley, and a law degree with first class honors from the Australian National University. She has published in more than 40 peer review and law review journals and is the co-founder of ScotusOA.com, a website devoted to empirical analyses of Supreme Court oral arguments.