Conference Papers

Click on the title for the conference paper (.pdf); click on the "project website" link for the published version of the paper (or book), along with any relevant data and documentation.

American Political Science Association

• Epstein, Lee, Christopher M. Parker, & Jeffrey A. Segal. 2012.Do Justices Defend the Speech They Hate? In-Group Bias, Opportunism, and the First Amendment. Prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans LA (meeting cancelled).

• Epstein, Lee & Tonja Jacobi. 2008. Super Medians. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston MA.
  Epstein, Lee, Jack Knight, & Olga Shvetsova. 2000. The Role of Constitutional Courts in the Establishment and Maintenance of Democratic Systems of Government. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee & Jack Knight. 1995. Documenting Strategic Interaction on the U.S. Supreme Court. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee & Joseph F. Kobylka. 1990. Exploring Legal Change on the U.S. Supreme Court. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee, Thomas G. Walker, & William J. Dixon. 1987. Supreme Court Decision Making: An Institutional Perspective. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• O'Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1984. Institutional and External Responses to Supreme Court Decisions: The Case of Abortion. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. [project website]

• O'Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1983. Bridging the Gap between Congress and the Supreme Court: Judicial Interest Groups and the Erosion of the American Rule Governing Awards of Attorneys' Fees. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago IL. [project website]

Conference on Empirical Legal Studies

• Boyd, Christina, Lee Epstein & Andrew D. Martin. 2007. Untangling the Causal Effect of Sex on Judging. Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Berlin, Germany. [project website]

• Westerland, Chad, Jeffrey A. Segal, Lee Epstein, Scott Comparato & Charles M. Cameron. 2006. Lower Court Defiance of (Compliance with) the U.S. Supreme Court. Paper presented at Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Austin TX. (Also presented at the 2006 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.) [project website]

Law & Society Association

• Boyd, Christina, Lee Epstein & Andrew D. Martin. 2007. Untangling the Causal Effect of Sex on Judging. Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Berlin, Germany. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee, Andrew D. Martin, Jeffrey A. Segal, & Chad Westerland. 2005. The Judicial Common Space. Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Las Vegas, NV. [project website]

• Baldez, Lisa, Lee Epstein, & Andrew D. Martin. 2004. Do We Still Need an ERA? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee & Gary King. 2002. The Rules of Inference. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Vancouver, Canada. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee. 1992. A Longitudinal Examination of the Participation of Organized Interests in State Court Litigation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Philadelphia, PA. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee & Joseph F. Kobylka. 1989. Winners and Losers: An Examination of Factors Affecting the Success and Failure of Interest Group Litigators. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Madison, WI. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee & C.K. Rowland. 1988. Interest Group Litigation in Federal District Courts. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Vail, CO. [project website]

• O'Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1984. In Defense of Rights: The National Prison Project of the ACLU. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Boston, MA.

• O'Connor, Karen and Lee Epstein. 1983. Rebalancing the Scales of Justice: An Assessment of Public Interest Law. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Denver, CO. [project website]

• O'Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1981. An Overview of Interest Group Participation in Gender and Racially-Based Employment Discrimination Litigation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, Amherst, MA. [project website]

Midwest Political Science Association

• Epstein, Lee, Andrew D. Martin & Jeffrey A. Segal. 2012. Must Grants, Clear Denials, and Mid-Level Politics: The First Step Toward a Bounded Discretion Model of Certiorari Decisions. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago IL.

• Boyd, Christina L., Lee Epstein & Andrew D. Martin. 2007. Untangling the Effect of Sex on Judging. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. Winner of the Pi Sigma Alpha award for the best paper presented at the 2007 conference. [project website]

• Westerland, Chad, Jeffrey A. Segal, Lee Epstein, Scott Comparato & Charles M. Cameron. 2006. Lower Court Defiance of (Compliance with) the U.S. Supreme Court. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee, Daniel E. Ho, Gary King, & Jeffrey A. Segal. 2004. The Effect of War on the Supreme Court. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee, Jack Knight, & Olga Shvetsova. 2000. Selecting Selection Systems. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee & Jeffrey A. Segal. 1997. Supreme Court Agenda Setting: Assessing Cross-Institutional Constraints. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee, Valerie Hoekstra, Jeffrey A. Segal, & Harold J. Spaeth. 1995. Do Sincere Political Preferences Changes? A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Supreme Court Justices. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• Segal, Jeffrey A., Lee Epstein, Charles M. Cameron, & Harold J. Spaeth. 1994, Ideological Values of the Votes of Justices Revisited. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee & Carol Mershon. 1993. The Formation of Opinion Coalitions on the U.S. Supreme Court. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science, Chicago, IL.

• Epstein, Lee, Tracey George, Micheal W. Giles, & Thomas G. Walker. 1992. Rating the Justices: Lessons from Another Court. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science, Chicago, IL.

• George, Tracey & Lee Epstein. 1991. On the Nature of Supreme Court Decision Making. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee & Joseph F. Kobylka. 1990. Winners and Losers in the Supreme Court of the United States: The Death Penalty. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee & C.K. Rowland. 1989. A Systematic Evaulation of Interest Group Efficacy in U.S. Federal District Courts. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee & Charles D. Hadley. 1987. Political Parties in the Judicial Process. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association , Chicago, IL. [project website]

• O'Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1984. Ties that Bind: Defining the Public Interest. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.

• O'Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. The Role of Interest Groups in Supreme Court Policy Formation. 1983. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. [project website]

• O'Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1982. The Rise of Conservative Interest Group Litigation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee. 1981. The Impact of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Cincinnati, OH.

Northeastern Political Science Association

• O'Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1983. States Rights or Criminal Rights: An Analysis of State Performance in U.S. Supreme Court Litigation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA. [project website]

Southern Political Science Association

• Epstein, Lee, Eleanor C. Main, & Deborah Elovich. 1986. Interest Groups in Georgia: Business as Usual. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee. 1986. Strategies of Judicial Research. Interviewing U.S. Supreme Court Justices and Interest Group Attorneys. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA. [project website]

• O'Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1985. States as Litigants. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Nashville, TN. [project website]

• O'Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein, with Odette Marie Bendeck. 1982. Court Rules as Gatekeeping: A Case Study of Rule 27 (9). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA. [project website]

• O'Connor, Karen & Lee Epstein. 1981. An Approach to Interest Group Litigation Research. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA.

Southwestern Political Science Association

• Epstein, Lee. 1989. A Comparative Analysis of the Evolution, Rules, and Usage of Amicus Curiae Briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and in State Courts of Last Resort. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Political Science Association, Little Rock, AK. [project website]

• Epstein, Lee, Joseph F. Kobylka, & Joseph Stewart. 1987. The Study of Interest Group Litigation: A Time for Reappraisal and Consolidation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Political Science Association, Dallas, TX. [project website]