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Stefanie Lindquist

Nickerson Dean; Professor of Law

Stefanie Lindquist serves as the Nickerson Dean and Professor of Law at WashU Law.

Before joining WashU Law she served as Senior Vice President for Global Academic Initiatives at Arizona State University. Her other service at ASU included heading ASU’s Global Academic Initiatives as senior vice president in the Office of the Provost and Professor of Law and Political Sciences in the School of Global Politics and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. She also served as Deputy Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and was Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science at ASU from 2016 to 2019.

Lindquist was Dean and Arch Professor at the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs from 2013 to 2016, after serving as interim dean, associate dean for outreach, and associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Texas School of Law. Before teaching at the University of Texas, Lindquist taught law and political science at Vanderbilt University. She also served as a visiting faculty member at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in 2013.

Known for her expertise in judicial behavior and constitutional law, Lindquist has authored numerous influential publications and has been a prominent voice in the legal community. She has co-authored three books and has authored dozens of published articles and book chapters. Her book, “Measuring Judicial Activism,” is the first publication to define the oft-used term quantitatively.

In addition to her scholarship, Dean Lindquist’s teaching is highly regarded; she was awarded the Robert Birkby Award for Excellence in Teaching Political Science during her tenure at Vanderbilt University, and while at the University of Georgia, she was named Professor of the Year and earned its University-Wide Teaching Award.

Lindquist oversaw the Temple University Law Review, serving as its editor-in-chief. After graduating Magna Cum Laude, she clerked for the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica at the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia and later practiced law at Latham and Watkins in Washington, D.C. She also served as a research associate at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington D.C. assisting committees of the Federal Judicial Conference in addressing questions of judicial administration.

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  • Education
    • J.D., Temple University (magna cum laude), ’88
    • Ph.D. Political Science and Public Administration, University of South Carolina, ’96
  • Publications

    Books

    • Oxford Handbook of American Judicial Behavior, with Lee Epstein (editors), Oxford University Press, 2017.
    • Measuring Judicial Activism, with Frank Cross, Oxford University Press, 2009.
    • Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Appellate Court Decision Making, with Virginia Hettinger, Wendy Martinek, University of Virginia Press, 2006.

    Articles and Book Chapters

    • “Comparative Administrative Law: The View from Political Science,” 2020, in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law, Peter Cane, Herwig C. H. Hofmann, Eric C. Ip, and Peter L. Lindseth, eds. (Oxford University Press)(with David M. Searle).
    • “Judicial Activism and State Supreme Courts: Institutional Design and Judicial Behavior,” 2017, Stanford Law and Policy Review, 28(1): 61-108.
    • “National Policy Preferences and Judicial Review of State Statutes at the United States Supreme Court,” 2012, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 43(2): 151-178 (with Pamela Corley).
    • “Prelude to the Court: Justice Stevens on the Seventh Circuit,” 2012, Northwestern University Law Review, 107(2): 715-742.
    • “Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals: The Determinants of Reversal on Appeal,” 2012, in New Directions to Judicial Politics, Kevin McGuire, ed. (Routledge) (with Virginia Hettinger).
    • “Consensus, Disorder, and the Supreme Court: A Challenge to Attitudinalism,” 2012, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 9(1): 129-148 (with Paul H. Edelman and David Klein).
    • “The Multiple Staged Process of Judicial Review: Facial and As-Applied Constitutional Challenges to Legislation before the Supreme Court,” 2011, Journal of Legal Studies 40(2): 467-502 (with Pamela Corley).
    • “Stare Decisis as Reciprocity Norm,” 2011, in Charles Geyh, ed., What’s Law Got to Do With It?” Stanford University Press.
    • “Congress, the Supreme Court, and Judicial Review: Testing a Constitutional Separation of Powers Model,” 2011, American Journal of Political Science 55(1):89-104 (with Jeffrey A. Segal and Chad Westerland).
    • “Countering the Majoritarian Difficulty,” 2010, University of Virginia Law Review 96(4): 719-797 (with Amanda Frost).
    • “Psychology, Strategy, and Behavioral Equivalence, Response to Professor Kim,” 2009, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, PENNumbra 158:75-81 (with Wendy L. Martinek).
    • “Judging the Judges,” 2009, Duke Law Journal 58(7): 1383-1437 (with Frank Cross).
    • “Measuring Disordered Voting Patterns on the U.S. Supreme Court: Implications for the Attitudinal Model of Judicial Behavior,” 2008, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 5(4):819-852 (with David Klein and Paul Edelman).
    • “The Rhetoric of Restraint and the Ideology of Activism,” 2007, Constitutional Commentary 24:103-125 (with Frank Cross and Joseph Smith).
    • “Supreme Court Auditing of the U.S. Courts of Appeals: An Organizational Perspective,” 2007, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 17(4):607-624 (with Susan B. Haire and Donald R. Songer).
    • “Splitting the Difference: Explaining Mixed Outcomes on the United States Courts of Appeals,” 2007,
    • Law and Society Review 41(2): 429-456 (with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek).
    • “Evaluating the Performance of State Judiciaries: A Study of the Georgia Courts,” 2007, State and Local Government Review 38(3): 176-190 (with George Dougherty and Mark Bradbury).
    • “Bureaucratization and Balkanization: The Origin and Effects of Decision Making Norms in the
    • Federal Courts of Appeals,” 2007, University of Richmond Law Review 41:659-705.
    • “The Scientific Study of Judicial Activism,” 2007, University of Minnesota Law Review, 91:1752-1784 (with Frank Cross).
    • “Judicial Review in the Rehnquist and Burger Courts: Explaining Justices’ Responses to Constitutional Challenges,” 2007, Political Research Quarterly 60:71-91 (with Rorie Spill Solberg).
    • “Decision Making by an Agent with Multiple Principals: Environmental Policy in the U.S. Courts of Appeals,” 2006, in Institutional Games and the U.S. Supreme Court, James R. Rogers, Roy B. Flemming, and Jon R. Bond, eds. (University of Virginia Press)(with Susan B. Haire).
    • “Judicial Review in the Rehnquist Court: Activism, Federalism and Ideology,” 2006, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 3:237 (with Rorie Spill Solberg).
    • “The Decisional Significance of the Chief Justice,” 2006, University of Pennsylvania Law Review 154(6):1665- 1707 (with Frank Cross).
    • “Legal Implications of Civil Service Reform,” 2006, in Edward Kellough and Lloyd Nigro, eds. Civil Service Reform in the States: Personnel Politics and Policies at the Sub-National Level (with Stephen Condrey and Calvin Gibson).
    • “Empirically Testing Dworkin’s Chain Novel Theory: Studying the Path of Precedent,” 2005, New York University Law Review 80(4):1156-1206 (with Frank Cross).
    • “The Influence of Jurisprudential Considerations on Supreme Court Decision Making: A Study of Conflict Cases,” 2005, Law and Society Review 40(1):135-163 (with David Klein).
    • “Comparing Attitudinal and Strategic Accounts of Dissenting Behavior on the United States Courts of Appeals,” 2004, American Journal of Political Science 48(1):123-137 (with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek).
    • “Acclimation Effects and Separate Opinion Writing on the United States Court of Appeals,” 2003, Social Science Quarterly 85(4): 792-810 (with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek).
    • “Separate Opinion Writing on the United States Courts of Appeals,” 2003, American Politics Research 31(3):215-250 (with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek).
    • “The Role and Impact of Chief Judges on the United States Courts of Appeals,” 2003, Justice System Journal 24:91-117 (with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek).
    • “Appellate Court Supervision in the Federal Judiciary: A Hierarchical Perspective,” 2002, Law and Society Review 37:143-168 (with Susan B. Haire and Donald R. Songer).
    • “Congressional Responses to Federal Circuit Court Decisions,” 2001, Judicature 85(2):60-68 (with David A. Yalof).
    • “The Impact of Presidential Appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court,” 2000, Political Research Quarterly 53:795-814 (with David A. Yalof and John A. Clark).
    • “Attorney Expertise, Litigant Success, and Judicial Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals,” 1999, Law and Society Review 33:667-686 (with Susan B. Haire and Roger Hartley).
    • “State Supreme Court Decisions to Overrule Precedent, 1965-1996,” 1998, Justice System Journal 20:17- 40 (with Kevin Pybas).
    • “An Agency and Twelve Courts,” 1997, Judicature 80:230-37 (with Susan B. Haire).
    • “Revealing the Feminist in Mary Parker Follett,” 1997, Administration and Society 29:348-71 (with Noel O. Morton).
    • “Not the Whole Story: The Impact of the Justices’ Values on Supreme Court Decision Making,” 1996,
    • American Journal of Political Science 40:1049-63 (with Donald R. Songer).
    • “Critiquing Gender – Neutral Treaty Language: The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,” 1995, in J. Peters & A. Wolper, eds., Women’s Rights, Human Rights: International and Feminist Perspectives (with Natalie Hevener Kaufman).
    • “Chief Justice Warren Berger’s Classic Contribution to Civil Discourse,” 1992, Oklahoma Law Review 45:139 (with Joseph Zengerle).
    • Casenote, “City’s Business Privilege Tax Extended to Services Performed Outside of the City (Gilbert v. City of Pittsburgh,” 1987, Temple Law Review 60: 543-555.
    • Casenote, “Newspaper Reporter’s Trading on Basis of Misappropriated Prepublication Information (United States v. Carpenter),” 1987, Temple Law Review 60: 195-215.
  • Activity and Affiliations
    • Member, American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, American Society of Public Administration.
    • Member, District of Columbia and Pennsylvania Bar Associations (inactive status)
  • Honors and Awards
    • Fellow, Millennium Leadership Initiative, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2015- 2016
    • Searle Fellow, Northwestern University School of Law, 2007.
    • M. Glenn Abernathy Fellow, University of South Carolina, 1995.
    • Most Outstanding Graduate Student Award, University of South Carolina, University-wide fellowship, 1995.
    • John C. West Fellow, University of South Carolina, 1994.
    • James A. Morris Carolina Fellow, University of South Carolina, 1992. Editor-in-Chief, Temple Law Review, Vol. 61, 1988.
    • West Publishing Award for Greatest Contribution to Legal Scholarship, awarded by Temple Law faculty, 1988.