Professor
Department of Political Science
316 Norman Mayer
New Orleans, LA 70118
Visiting Professor and Fulbright Lecturer, Shandong University, 2007-2008
(504) 862-8300
(504) 865-8745 (FAX)
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Public Law and Judicial Process POLS 101 Introduction to Politics--freshman seminar Click here to view a student web project from the honors' section of POLS 101. POLA 327 Courts and Politics
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BOOKS:
Representation Rights and the Burger Years (University of Michigan Press, 1991)
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Strategist on the Supreme Court (Rowman Littlefield, 1996)
Queen's Court: Judicial Power in the Rehnquist Era (University Press of Kansas, forthcoming 2008)
Edited Books:
The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior (University of Michigan Press, 2003)
Other books (fiction):
The Stagnant Pool,
Scholars Below Sea Level (University Press of the South, 2000)

The author encounters her cover art in the
Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway.
Current Service and Professional Membership:
Newcomb Fellow, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University
American Political Science Association
Southern Political Science Association
Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies, International Political Science Association
Professional Activities:
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Studying law and courts: Servants' punishment stone at the Confucius family mansion in Qufu, China. |
Lecturing at Shandong University School of Law in Jinan, China, June 2004. |

Visiting the boyhood home of political theorist Isaiah Berlin in Riga, Latvia,
during my Fulbright lectureship in Estonia, Spring 2001.
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