The Comparative Politics section will award 12 $500 grants to support members’ travel to the APSA conference this year. Awards are determined by lottery. We especially encourage members at less well-endowed institutions to apply here: apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitation… by July 10th.

My paper with Chris Krewson (BYU) and Jessica Schoenherr (South Carolina Department of Political Science) is available with open access on Research & Politics! Using digital trace data, we find that the ProPublica story on Clarence Thomas increased info seeking about #SCOTUS by 300% 📈journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Law & Courts Women in our recent paper Anna Gunderson Jeong Hyun Kim Nichole Bauer Kathleen Searles and Belinda Davis examine gendered strategic messaging of local judicial candidates. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Let us celebrate you! Awards! 🏆 Articles! 📰 New jobs! 🏛️ Newly minted PhDs!! 🎓

A great opportunity for PhD students and early-career scholars studying access to justice. 👇 August 16 deadline ✅ american-bar-foundation.breezy.hr/p/477be7b8adc2…

Evergreen.

We love to see it!

🚨🚨🚨Brooke Shannon And I have new work out! We look at how civil litigation against law enforcement agencies can reduce traffic stops but we still find patterns of racialized policing in who benefits from those reductions.

WE LOVE TO SEE IT!!!! Nicely done, Dr. Taraleigh Davis!

And even more we love to see!

UGA Department of Political Science keeps growing--we're hiring in judicial politics at the Assistant or Associate level (posted on APSA eJobs #14518). Our law & courts subfield and CJ program are strong and thriving. Come join our collegial department! #PolSciJobs. ugajobsearch.com/postings/388077

So awesome to see Elizabeth Lane's Law & Politics Book Review review (lpbr.net/2024/07/suprem…) of our book Supreme Bias (sup.org/books/title/?i…). The review offers a tremendously helpful overview of the book and is exceedingly generous. Thank you Elizabeth!

So excited to be able to share my research in Brookings Governance's series "JustEquity and the American judiciary"!

Jessica Schoenherr, Chris Krewson and Marcy Shieh examine online engagements with Supreme Court coverage. After a scandal involving Justice Thomas Clarence, attention increased by 300% and stayed high for weeks. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

Reminder! Submit your proposal for 2025 SPSA Conference in San Juan by September 1st.

Interested in the role abortion will play in 2024? Check out the forthcoming Cambridge Element in Gender & Politics from Heather Ondercin, Jordan Randall, and I - Abortion Attitudes and Polarization in the American Electorate, available here: erinccassesephd.com/research

The Junior Law and Politics Research Community is now accepting proposals for its virtual seminar series in the Fall of 2024! You can receive more info & submit your proposal here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

WE LOVE TO SEE IT!!!!! #ReadItCiteItSyllabusIt

Applying for jobs this year or soon? Check out this fantastic workshop on September 26--the panel will share and discuss information that may be useful when starting (or planning to start in the next couple years) a tenure track faculty position in political science.