Randy E. Barnett (Georgetown): We the People: Each and Every One. Eric A. Posner (Chicago) and Adrian Vermeule (Harvard): Inside or Outside the System? Final word on U.S. law isn’t: The Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, a secretive process that has led judges, lawyers and scholars astray. M. Todd Henderson and William H. J. Hubbard (Chicago): Do Judges Follow the Law? An Empirical Test of Congressional Control Over Judicial Behavior. Neal Devins (William and Mary) and Lawrence Baum (OSU): Split Definitive: How Party Polarization Turned the Supreme Court into a Partisan Court. The polarized court: The partisan split reflects similarly deep divisions in Congress, the electorate and the elite circles in which the justices move. Erik Voeten on why Americans support the Supreme Court more than Congress, even when they believe both are politicized. Courtney M. Cahill (FSU) and Geoffrey Christopher Rapp (Toledo): Does the Public Care How the Supreme Court Reasons? Empirical Evidence from a National Experiment and Normative Concerns in the Case of Same-Sex Marriage. Tom Tyler and Justin Sevier (Yale): How Do the Courts Create Popular Legitimacy? The Role of Establishing the Truth, Punishing Justly, and/or Acting through Just Procedures. Stephen M. Johnson (Mercer): The Changing Discourse of the Supreme Court. Kaitlyn Sill (Pacific Lutheran), Emily Metzgar (Indiana), and Stella M. Rouse (Maryland): Media Coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court: How Do Journalists Assess the Importance of Court Decisions? Samantha Parker on the portrayal of the American legal system in prime time television crime dramas.
