Curriculum Vitae
September, 1998

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Personal Data
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Born: October 9, 1937, in Chicago, Illinois

Family: Married; three grown children

Military Service: U.S. Army, 1960-62.

Home Address/Phone:

1016 Della Drive
Lexington, Kentucky 40504
606-278-6155

Educational Background:

B.S. - Florida State University, 1959, Political Science

M.A. - Florida State University, 1960, Political Science

Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1967, Political Science

Academic Positions:

Professor, University of Kentucky, 1977-

Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, 1971-77

Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, 1966-71

Visiting Lecturer, University of Wisconsin (Madison), Summer, 1972.

Administrative Positions:

Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, 1992-93 and Spring, 1990

Acting Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, 1990-91

Chair, University Senate Council, 1985-86

Associate Dean of the Graduate School, 1980-83

Chair, Department of Political Science, 1973-77

Honors and Awards:

Fulbright Research and Lecture Award, University of Indonesia School of Law, Jakarta, Indonesia, Spring, 1994 (declined)

Project '87 Small Grant, Summer, 1981 ($3700), for research on the nature of activism in the Warren and Burger Courts

Ford Foundation Fellowship in Political Science, 1972-73 academic year, for research on the impact of the exclusionary rule in search and seizure.

Professional Activities:

President, Kentucky Political Science Assn., 1998-99

Member, American Political Science Assn. Ethics Committee, 1996-99.

President, Southern Political Science Association, 1990-91.

Vice President, Southern Political Science Association, 1987-88 (Program Chair for 1988 meeting).

Chair, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 1985-86. (Developed Section Panels at 1986 American Political Science Assn. Meeting).

Member, 1985 Program Committee, Southern Political Science Association (responsible for Judicial Process and Public Law panels).

Chair, 1984 Corwin Prize Award Committee, American Political Science Association (for best dissertation in Public Law). Member of same committee, 1993.

Member, 1979 Program Committee, American Political Science Association (responsible for Judicial Process and Public Law panels).

Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Politics, 1978-93

Member of the Editorial Board, American Politics Quarterly, 1977-87.

Member of the Editorial Board, American Journal of Political Science, 1973-78.

Member, Southern Political Science Association's "Blue Ribbon" Committee on the Journal of Politics, 1978.

Member, Executive Council, Southern Political Science Association, 1975-78, 1987-93.

Member, American Data Advisory Committee, Inter-University Consortium for Political Research, 1972-74.

Member of Program Committee for the 1973 Midwest Political Science Association Convention (responsible for Law and Legal Processes panels).

Member of Nominating Committee, Midwest Political Science Association, 1970, 1972.

Professional Affiliations:

American Political Science Association

Southern Political Science Association

Midwest Political Science Association

Law & Society Association

American Judicature Society

Kentucky Political Science Association

Teaching Interests:

Advanced Undergraduate: Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Interpretation, U. S.Supreme Court, Judicial Policy-Making, Judicial Processes

Graduate: Introduction to Research in Judicial Processes, Seminar on Judicial Policy Making, Seminar on the Impact of Judicial Decisions, Seminar on Judicial Decision-Making

Publications - Books:

JUDICIAL POLICIES: IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT, 2ND ED. (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1998). (co-authored with Charles A. Johnson).

JUDICIAL POLICIES: IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT, 1ST ED. (Washington: Conressional Quarterly Press, 1984)

(co-authored with Charles A. Johnson)

Portions of 1st ed. reprinted in:

Walter Murphy and C. Herman Pritchett (eds.), COURTS, JUDGES AND POLITICS, 4th Ed. (Random House, 1986)

Sheldon Goldman and Austin Sarat (eds.), AMERICAN COURT SYSTEMS, 2nd ed. (Longman, 1988).

Randall Ripley and Elliott Slotnick (eds.), READINGS IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS (McGraw Hill, 1989); and 2nd Ed. (Wadsworth, 1993)

Henry R. Glick (ed.), COURTS IN AMERICAN POLITICS (McGraw Hill, 1990)

Publications - Articles:

"Justice Frankfurter and Justice Reed: Friendship and Lobbying on the Court" Judicature, LXXVIII (April, 1995), pp. 224-231 (coauthored with Kimberly Greenfield and Jason S. Fleming)

"Explaining the Competitiveness of Gubernatorial Primaries" Journal of Politics, LV (May, 1993), pp. 454-471 (co-authored withWilliam D. Berry)

"The Supreme Court as a Cheerleader in Politico-Moral Disputes," Journal of Politics, LIV (August, 1992), pp. 639-653.

Reprinted in R. P. Saunders (ed.), INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL PROCESSES, 2d Ed. (Captus Press, 1994)

"A Commentary on State Selection of Judges," Kentucky Law Journal, LXXVII (Spring, 1989), pp. 747-757.

"A Commentary on Professor Burbank's Essay on the Removal of Federal Judges," Kentucky Law Journal, LXXVI (Spring, 1988), pp. 701-706.

"Defining the Dimensions of Judicial Activism," Judicature, LXVI (January, 1983), pp. 236-247.

Reprinted in Henry R. Glick (ed.), COURTS IN AMERICAN POLITICS (McGraw Hill, 1990).

Reprinted in Elliot E. Slotnick (ed.), JUDICIAL POLITICS

(The American Judicature Society, 1992)

"Ideology and Reality in the Debate Over the Exclusionary Rule: A Conservative Argument for Its Retention," South Texas Law Journal, XXIII (Fall, 1982), pp. 558-582.

"Patterns of Adoption of Tort Law Innovations: An Application of Diffusion Theory to Judicial Doctrines," American Political Science Review, LXXV (December, 1981), pp. 975-87 (co-authored with Lawrence Baum)

Reprinted in Sheldon Goldman and Austin Sarat (eds.), AMERICAN COURT SYSTEMS, 2nd ed. (Longman, 1988).

"On the Supreme Court's Annual Trek to Capitol Hill: How the Justices MakeTheir Appeal Each Year for the High Court's Appropriation," Judicature,LXIII (February, 1980), pp. 322-327 (co-authored with Dean Yarwood).

"The Impact of Changes in Judicial Doctrine: The Abrogation of Charitable Immunity," Law & Society Review, XIV (Fall, 1979) pp. 969-986(co-authored with Dean Jaros).

"The Exclusionary Rule: Have Critics Proven That It Doesn't Deter Police," Judicature, LXII (March, 1979), pp. 398-403.

Reprinted in John J. Bonsignore, et al. (eds.) BEFORE THE LAW: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LEGAL PROCESS, 3rd Ed., (Houghton-Mifflin, 1984).

"Factionalism in the South: A Revisitation of V.O. Key and a Test of Theory,"American Journal of Political Science, XXII (November, 1978), pp. 833-48.

"Testing the Effectiveness of Civil Liberties Policies at the State and Federal Levels: The Case of the Exclusionary Rule," American Politics Quarterly, V (January, 1977), pp. 57-82.

Reprinted in Sheldon Goldman and Austin Sarat (eds.), AMERICAN COURTSYSTEMS: READINGS IN JUDICIAL PROCESS AND BEHAVIOR (W.H.Freeman and Co., 1978.)

"The Supreme Court and Critical Elections: A Dissent," American PoliticalScience Review, LXX (December, 1976), pp. 1215-18 (co-authored with S. Sidney Ulmer)

"Organizational Contumacy in the Transmission of Judicial Policies: The Mapp,Escobedo, Miranda and Gault Cases," Villanova Law Review, XX (November, 1974), pp. 50-79.

Reprinted in S. Sidney Ulmer (ed.) COURTS, LAW AND JUDICIAL PROCESSES (Free Press, 1981).

"Is the Exclusionary Rule in Failing Health? Some New Data and a Plea Against a Precipitious Conclusion," Kentucky Law Journal, LXII (Fall, 1974), pp. 681-730.

Reprinted in S. Sidney Ulmer (ed.) COURTS, LAW AND JUDICIAL PROCESSES (Free Press, 1981).

"Reactions of State Supreme Courts to a U.S. Supreme Court Civil Liberties Decision," Law and Society Review, VIII (August, 1973), pp. 109-134.

"Recurring Litigants: Administrative Agencies Before the Supreme Court," Western Political Quarterly, XXV (June, 1972), pp. 183-191 (co-authored with Micheal Giles).

"The Impact of Formal Selection Processes on the Characteristics of Judges -- Reconsidered," Law and Society Review, VI (May, 1972), pp. 579-593.

Reprinted in Russell R. Wheeler and Howard R. Whitcomb (eds.), JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION: TEXT AND READINGS (Prentice-Hall, 1977).

"The Characteristics and Career Patterns of State Supreme Court Justices," State Government, XLIX (Winter, 1972), pp. 34-41.

Reprinted in Case and Comment, August, 1972.

"British, French and American Systems of Justice Compared," CurrentHistory, LVI (August, 1971), pp. 97-104.

"Dissent on State Supreme Courts: The Differential Significance of Characteristics of Judges," Midwest Journal of Political Science, XV (May, 1971), pp. 322-346 (co-authored with Dean Jaros).

"External Variables, Institutional Structure, and Dissent on State Supreme Courts," Polity, III (December, 1970), pp. 175-200 (co-authored with Dean Jaros).

"Compliance with Gault in Rural America: The Case of Kentucky," Journal of Family Law, X (Winter, 1970-71), pp. 300-326 (co-authored with Kenneth Kolson).

"Voting Behavior on the FCC," Midwest Journal of Political Science, XIII(November, 1969), pp. 587-612.

"State Supreme Courts: Some Comparative Data" State Government, XLVI (Autumn, 1969), pp. 260-264 (co-authored with Dean Jaros).

"Transmitting Basic Political Values: The Role of the Educational System," School Review, LXXVII (June, 1969), pp. 94-107 (co-authored with Dean Jaros).

"The FCC's Disposition of 'Fairness Doctrine' Complaints," Journal of Broadcasting, XIII (Summer, 1969), pp. 315-324.

Publications - Chapters in Books:

"The Supreme Court and Policy Reform: The Hollow Hope Revisited," in DavidSchultz (ed.), LEVERAGING THE LAW: USING THE COURTS TO ACHIEVE SOCIAL CHANGE, pp. 215-250 (Peter Lang Publishers, 1998)

"Justice John Paul Stevens: The Lone Ranger in a Black Robe" in Charles Lamb and Stephen Halpern (eds.), THE BURGER COURT, pp.343-374 (University of Illinois Press, 1991)

"Courts and Policy: Compliance, Implementation and Impact," in John G. Gates and Charles A.Johnson (eds.), AMERICAN COURTS: A CRITICALASSESSMENT, pp. 435-466 (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1990).

"State Supreme Courts as Activists: New Doctrines in the Law of Torts," inG. Alan Tarr and Mary Cornelia Porter (eds.) STATE SUPREME COURTS AND THE FEDERAL SYSTEM, pp. 83-108. (Greenwood Press, 1982) (co-authored with Lawrence Baum).

"A Framework for the Analysis of Judicial Activism," Chapter 15 in Stephen Halpern and Charles Lamb (eds.) SUPREME COURT ACTIVISM AND RESTRAINT, pp. 385-419 (Lexington Books, 1982).

"Isolating Causes of Factionalism in the South: A Revisitation of V. O. Key,Jr." in Robert P. Steed, et al., (eds.) PARTY POLITICS IN THE SOUTH, pp. 33-57 (Praeger, 1980).

Publications - Encyclopedia Entries

"Harris v. N.Y." and "Wade v. U.S." in THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (Oxford University Press,1992).

"Impact and Compliance" in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN JUDICIAL PROCESS, Vol.II, pp. 810-824 (Charles Scribner and Sons,1987).

Publications - Review Essay:

McCloskey, The Modern Supreme Court (1972) reviewed in Wisconsin Law Review 1973 (Spring), pp. 312-323.

Publications - Teaching Oriented

"Simulating Plea Bargaining in Undergraduate Courses" Law & Courts, VIII (3): 6-8 (Summer, 1998)

"Simulating the Certiorari Process" Law & Courts, VIII (1): 5-8 (Winter,1998)

Book Reviews:

McGurn, America's Court: The Supreme Court and the People in The Law and Politics Book Review, VIII (June, 1998), pp. 281-282.

Tarr, Constitutional Politics in the States: Contemporary Controversies and Historic Patterns in American Political Science Review, XCI (March, 1997), pp. 200-201.

Pinello, The Impact of Judicial-Selection Method on State Supreme Court Policy in The Law and Politics Book Review, VI (February, 1996), pp. 31-33.

Glick, The Right to Die in American Political Science Review, LXXXVIII(March, 1994), pp. 225-226.

Segal and Spaeth, The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model in The Law and Politics Book Review, III (September, 1993), pp. 98-100.

Gates, The Supreme Court and Partisan Realignment in Journal of Politics, LV, (May, 1993), pp. 528-530.

Schuck (ed.), Tort Law and the Public Interest: Competition, Innovation and Consumer Welfare in Texas Journal of Political Studies, XIV (Winter, 1991-92), pp. 63-65.

Dalton, The State Politics of Judicial and Congressional Reform: Legitimizing Criminal Justice Policies in Justice System Journal Spring, 1987), pp. 197-202.

Loh, Social Research in the Judicial Process, and Monohan and Walker, Social Science in Law in American Political Science Review, LXXX (December 1986), pp. 1347-1348.

Liebermann, The Litigous Society in Journal of Politics, XLIV (November, 1982), pp. 1139-1141.

Levin, Urban Politics and the Criminal Courts in American Political ScienceReview, LXXII (December, 1978), pp. 1419-1420

Watson and Downing, The Politics of Bench and Bar: Judicial Selection Under the Missouri Non-Partisan Court Plan in Journal of Politics, XXXI(November, 1969), pp. 1115-1116.

Freeman, Beaney and Rostow, Perspectives on the Court in American Political Science Review, LXII (March, 1968), pp. 265-266.

Papers and Presentations:

"Variations in State Supreme Court Power: Linkages and Impact," at the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, April, 1998 (co-authored with Marcia Whicker and Michele Collins)

"Is State Policy Process Gendered?" at the Western Political Science Association, Los Angeles, March, 1998 (co-authored with Marcia Whicker and Michele Collins)

"Controversial Court Decisions, Individual Ideology and Retaliation: An Experiment" at the Midwest Political Science Assn., Chicago, April, 1996

(with Scott Peters, Jim Cauthen and J. D. Droddy)

"The Supreme Court Didn't Decide Today: Television News' Reporting of Certiorari Denials" at the Midwest Political Sci. Assn. Chicago, April, 1995.

"Persuasion, Influence and Friendship: The Interaction Between Justices Frankfurter and Reed," at the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March, 1994 (co-authored with Kimberly Greenfield and Jason S. Fleming).

"The Supreme Court as a Cheerleader in Politico-Moral Disputes" Presidential address to the Southern Political Science Association, Tampa, Florida, November, 1991.

"Explaining the Competitiveness of Gubernatorial Primaries," at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting, Chicago, April, 1990 (co-authored with William Berry).

"Justice John Paul Stevens: The Lone Ranger in a Black Robe," at the Southern Political Science Association meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, November, 1987.

"Judicial Activism and Restraint," at the annual Student Conference on United States Affairs, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., November, 1986.

"Who Takes Advantage of Supreme Court Decisions -- and Why," public lecture at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, December, 1984.

"Ideology and Reality in the Debate Over the Exclusionary Rule: A Conservative Argument for Its Retention," at South Texas Law School symposium on the exclusionary rule, Houston, September, 1982.

"Studying the Impact of Judicial Decisions: A Period of Stagnation and Prospects for the Future," at the American Political Science Association meeting, Denver, September, 1982.

"A Framework for the Analysis of Judicial Activism," at the Southern Political Science Association meeting, Memphis, Tennessee, November, 1981.

"How Well Does the Exclusionary Rule Work: An Evaluation of the Empirical Evidence," Levine Memorial Lecture, Maryland Bar Association, Annapolis, June, 1980.

"Patterns of Adoptions of Tort Law Innovations: An Application of Diffusion Theory to Judicial Doctrine," at the Law & Society Association meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1980 (co-authored with Lawrence Baum).

"The Impact of Changes in Judicial Doctrine: The Abrogation of Charitable Immunity," at the American Political Science Association meeting, New York, September, 1978 (co-authored with Dean Jaros).

"Isolating Causes of Factionalism in the South: A Revisitation of V.O.Key," atthe Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, Charleston, South Carolina, February, 1978.

"Taking Advantage of a Quasi-Experiment Situtation: The Impact of Mapp v. Ohio at the American Political Science Association meeting, Chicago, September, 1974.

"Reactions of State Supreme Courts to a U.S.Supreme Court Civil Liberties Decision," at the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September, 1971.

"External Variables and Dissent Rates on State Supreme Courts," at the Midwest Political Science Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April, 1969 (co-authored with Dean Jaros).

"Clientele Attitudes, Perceptions, and Compliance with Policy," at the Southern Political Science Association, Gatlinburg, Tennessee,

November, 1968.

"Voting Behavior in Collegial Decision-Making Bodies: The Case of the FCC," at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, May, 1968.

Doctoral Dissertations:

I have directed nine doctoral dissertations: Micheal Giles (1971), Lola Mobley (1972), Charles A. Johnson (1977), Robert T. Roper (1978), J. Michael Thomson (1984), Lauren L. Bowen (1992), Charles E. Smith (1994), J. D. Droddy (1996) and Jim Cauthen (1998). Three students, C. Scott Peters, Rick Swanson and Aaron Hughes are currently writing dissertations under my direction.

Consulting and Evaluating:

Academic: Outside Evaluator of Political Science Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, May 1979.

Publishers: Manuscript Evaluator for Prentice-Hall, John Wiley & Sons, Little-Brown & Co., McGraw Hill, Random House, W.H. Freeman & Co., F. E. Peacock Co., Harcourt, Brace & Jovanivich, Charles Merrill Inc., Mayfield Publishing Co., Congressional Quarterly Press, Longman, D. C. Heath, University of Texas Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Kentucky Press, University of Pittsburgh Press

Funding Agencies: National Science Foundation (Political Science Section, Law and Society Section)

Journals: Referee for all major political science journals as well as Law & & Society Review, Judicature, Law and Policy Quarterly, and Justice

System Journal

Promotion and Tenure Evaluations for candidates at (last 10 years): Emory,Ohio State (2), Wisconsin, Florida State, Iowa, Southern California, SUNY at Binghampton, Florida Atlantic, Miami of Ohio, Mississippi, Illinois at Chicago, Syracuse, John Jay College, George Washington Foreign: Social Science Academic Advisor for the Asian DevelopmentBank/Southeastern Consortium for International Development project at the University of Swirijaya, Palembang (Sumatra), Indonesia, Summers of 1987 and 1988.

University of Kentucky Non-Administrative Service:

Chair, Search Committee for the Dean of the College of Education, 1994-95

Chair, Search Committee for Director of Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, 1994.

Chair, University Privilege and Tenure Committee (1988-90), Member, 1987-90; 1998 - 2001

Chair, Political Science Department Chair Search Committee, Spring, 1988,and Spring, 1981.

Chair, University Social Sciences Area Promotion Committee, 1978-80, member, 1995-96

Chair, Arts & Sciences Social Science Area Promotion Advisory Committee (1988-90); member, 1993-94, 1987-88.

Chair, University Senate Council, 1985-86; Member, Senate Council, 1983-87; 1993-96

Chair, Senate Rules Committee, 1979-84,1988-90, 1994-95, (member 1977-85; 1987-present)

Chair, Arts & Sciences Awards & Honors Committee, 1977-78 (member 1975-77).

Chair, University General Studies Committee, 1971-1972.

Chair, Review Committee for Anthropology Department (1978) and Philosophy Department (1982); member, Review Committee for Sociology (1996) and Review Committee for Political Science Department (1983)

Member, University of Kentucky Press Board, 1991-94

Member, President's Committee on the Future of the University, 1985-87.

Member and Report Editor, Self-Study Committee on Graduate Education, 1980-81.

Member, University Research Awards Committee, 1979-82.

Member, College of Law Deanship Search Committee, 1981-82.

Member, Graduate Council, 1979-80.

Member, University Senate, 1975-1987, 1988-

Non-Social Science Book Review:

Review of Jacques Vallee, Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Contact in Journal of Scientific Exploration, VII (Summer, 1993), pp. 99-103.


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