Lee Epstein
University Professor of Law and Political Science, Charles L. and Ramona I. Hilliard Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Southern California
Lee Epstein is the University Professor of Law & Political Science and the Charles L. and Ramona I. Hilliard Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Southern California. She researches and teaches law and legal institutions, especially the behavior of judges, and is a distinguished visiting professor at Hebrew University and Washington University, where she previously taught. Epstein has also been a professor at Northwestern University, Southern Methodist University, and Emory University. She is principal investigator of the U.S. Supreme Court Database and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. A recipient of 12 grants from the National Science Foundation, Epstein has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles and essays and 18 books. She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook on Judicial Behaviour.
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The designers of our democratic republic created a political system and institutions intended to avoid concentrated power, mob rule, and to defuse factions. Is the America we...