Lee R. Epstein

Publications

• Guns, Judges, and Trump
  74 DUKE L.J. 81 (2025) · Duke Law Journal · 2025
• Partisanship "All the Way Down" on the U.S. Supreme Court
  51 PEPP. L. REV. 489 (2024) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2024
• If Roe Had To Go…So Must Bruen
  39 CONST. COMMENT. 283 (2024) · Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 37 and later (2023–present) · 2024
• The Roberts Court and the Transformation of Constitutional Protections for Religion: A Statistical Portrait
  2021 SUP. CT. REV. (2021) · Supreme Court Review · 2021

• The Strange Story of the Second Amendment in the Federal Courts, and Why It Matters
  60 WASH. U. J. L. & POL'Y 147 (2019) · Washington University Journal of Law & Policy · 2019
• When It Comes to Business, the Right and Left Sides of the Court Agree
  54 WASH. U. J. L. & POL'Y 033 (2017) · Washington University Journal of Law & Policy · 2017
• Supreme Court Justices’ Loyalty to the President
  45 J. LEGAL STUD. (2016) · Journal of Legal Studies · 2016
• Some Thoughts on the Study of Judicial Behavior
  57 WM. & MARY L. REV. 2017 (2016) · William & Mary Law Review · 2016
• The Best for Last: The Timing of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
  64 DUKE L.J. 991 (2015) · Duke Law Journal · 2015
• Are Even Unanimous Decisions in the United States Supreme Court Ideological?
  106 NW. U. L. REV. 699 (2015) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2015
• Revisiting the Ideology Rankings of Supreme Court Justices
  44 J. LEGAL STUD. (2015) · Journal of Legal Studies · 2015
• How Business Fares in the Supreme Court
  97 MINN. L. REV. 1431 (2013) · Minnesota Law Review · 2013
• Is the Roberts Court Especially Activist? A Study of Invalidating (and Upholding) Federal, State, and Local Laws
  61 EMORY L.J. 737 (2012) · Emory Law Journal · 2012
• Was There Ever Such a Thing as Judicial Self-Restraint
  100 CAL. L. REV. 557 (2012) · California Law Review · 2012
• Inferring the Winning Party in the Supreme Court from the Pattern of Questioning at Oral Argument
  39 J. LEGAL STUD. (2010) · Journal of Legal Studies · 2010

• Economic Trends and Judicial Outcomes: A Macrotheory of the Court
  58 DUKE L.J. 1191 (2009) · Duke Law Journal · 2009
• Shedding (Empirical) Light on Judicial Selection
  74 MO. L. REV. (2009) · Missouri Law Review · 2009
• The Political Economy of Judging
  93 MINN. L. REV. 1503 (2009) · Minnesota Law Review · 2009
• On the Capacity of the Roberts Court to Generate Consequential Precedent
  86 N. C. L. REV. 1299 (2008) · North Carolina Law Review · 2008
• The Bush Imprint on the Supreme Court: Why Conservatives Should Continue to Yearn and Liberals Should Not Fear
  43 TULSA L. REV. 651 (2008) · Tulsa Law Review · 2008
• Ideological Drift Among Supreme Court Justices: Who, When, and How Important?
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2007
• Does the U.S. Constitution Need an Equal Rights Amendment?
  35 J. LEGAL STUD. (2006) · Journal of Legal Studies · 2006
• On the Effective Communication of the Results of Empirical Studies, Part II
  59 VAND. L. REV. 1811 (2006) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2006
• The Ideological Component of Judging in the Taxation Context
  84 WASH. U. L. REV. 1797 (2006) · Washington University Law Review · 2006
• Trumping the First Amendment?
  21 WASH. U. J. L. & POL'Y 81 (2006) · Washington University Journal of Law & Policy · 2006
• Judging Statutes: Interpretive Regimes
  38 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 1909 (2005) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 2005
• The Median Justice on the United States Supreme Court
  83 N. C. L. REV. 1275 (2005) · North Carolina Law Review · 2005
• Constitutional Sex Discrimination
  1 TENN. J. L. & POL'Y (2004) · Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy · 2004
• The Political (Science) Context of Judging
  47 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2003) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2003
• Judging Statutes: Thoughts on Statutory Interpretation and Notes for a Project on the Internal Revenue Code
  13 WASH. U. J. L. & POL'Y 305 (2003) · Washington University Journal of Law & Policy · 2003
• The Norm of Prior Judicial Experience and Its Consequences for Career Diversity on the U.S. Supreme Court
  91 CAL. L. REV. 903 (2003) · California Law Review · 2003
• A Defense of Empirical Legal Scholarship: A Reply
  69 U. CHI. L. REV. (2002) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2002
• The Rules of Inference
  69 U. CHI. L. REV. (2002) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2002
• Comparing Judicial Selection Systems
  10 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 7 (2001) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2001
• Piercing the Veil: William J. Brennan's Account of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
  19 YALE L. & POL'Y REV. 341 (2001) · Yale Law & Policy Review · 2001

• Where Yards Are Wide: Have Land Use Planning and Law Gone Away?
  21 WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 345 (1997) · William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review · 1997
• Positive Political Theory and the Study of U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making: Understanding the Sex Discrimation Cases
  1 CUNY L. REV. 155 (1996) · City University of New York Law Review · 1996
• Application of American Land Use and Environmental Planning Techniques to Environmental Recovery in Emerging Economies: Fundamental Foundations from the New World to the Old
  16 UC L. SF INT'L L. REV. (1992) · UC Law SF International Law Review · 1992

• The Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Commission Regulations: Process of Enactment and Effect on Private Property Interests
  16 U. BALT. L. REV. (1986) · University of Baltimore Law Review · 1986