About the Authors

Lee Epstein is the Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University. She is the author of Conservatives in Court (1985); coauthor of The Supreme Court and Legal Change: Abortion and the Death Penalty (1992) with Joseph Kobylka; The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and Developments, 3rd ed. (2003) with Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, and Thomas G. Walker; and The Choices Justices Make (1998) with Jack Knight, which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award for the best book on law and courts. In addition, she is coeditor, with Walter F. Murphy and C. Herman Pritchett of Courts, Judges and Politics, 5th ed. (2002).

Thomas G. Walker is professor of political science at Emory University where he teaches constitutional law and the judicial process. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. His book, A Court Divided, written with Deborah J. Barrow, won the prestigious V.O. Key Award for the best book on southern politics. He is the coauthor of The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and Developments, 3rd ed. (2003) with Lee Epstein, Jeffrey A. Segal, and Harold J. Spaeth.