Today's NSF Funding Highlight: The many dissertation improvement grants (and equivalents) funded by the NSF. These grants are small in size but help launch research agendas & careers. These awards=a better dissertation in scope and design. #LowCostHighImpact

STL tornado damage and initial cleanup

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...

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?).

Guess I can't submit a paper to CELS this year.... "Error: maximum paper size is 2 megabytes, your paper is 2.0009765625 megabytes."

For folks looking for some stats about the Court, Epstein, Andrew D. Martin, and I have a preliminary report on the term: static1.squarespace.com/static/6018850…. Hopefully this will be useful for teaching. SCDB data update will be out in August.

TCU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Judicial Politics. Come work with me! Reach out with any questions: tinyurl.com/tcujudicial

Another day in paradise ☀️

We (w/ Michael Nelson, Ostrander, Boldt) wrote a book on the politics of federal prosecution but recent events necessitate a large new volume! global.oup.com/academic/produ…

It took almost two years, but Google Scholar now even has our author order correct for Supreme Bias! (sup.org/books/law/supr…) #thelittlethings

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.

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!