Scholarly Areas of Interest
The Anglo-American legal system, writ broadly; judicial politics and litigant behavior; non-welfare-maximizing economic models; critical theory; the legal profession and legal ethics.Education
Ph.D. in Political Science, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In progress.- Intended Dissertation Topic (unapproved): The effect of demographic factors on jury verdicts.
B.A. in International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 2004.
Publications
"Making a List, Checking it Twice: The Mississippi Rules of Appellate Procedure Year-in-Review 2012" (2013) The Mississippi Lawyer (44)3: 22-25."The Ivory Tower Under Siege: A Constitutional Basis for Academic Freedom" (2011) George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 21(2): 501-540.
"Raising the Bar: Elite Advocacy in Supreme Court Public Interest Litigation" (2010) Journal of the Legal Profession 34(2): 275-306.
"National Security" (2008) The International Lawyer (42)2: 811-819 (with Carrie Newton-Lyons, Allison G. Fitzgerald, Eve Pogoriler, and Christopher B. Hynes).
Conference Presentations
"Twelve Men of Average Ignorance: Using Election Results to Predict Jury Verdicts." Presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL."Legitimating Massive Resistance: Using 'Race-Neutral' Jurisprudence to Entrench White Supremacy." Presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
"Building Judicial Independence: A Textual Analysis of Judicial Responses to Executive Power Claims in Common-Law Legal Systems." Presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois.
"And the Spirit of the LORD Spake Within Them: The Use of Biblical Authority by State Supreme Courts, 1995-1998." Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Appropriation of Oppressed Culture by Political Elites: Or, Why the Soggy Bottom Boys Were Pardoned in O Brother, Where Art Thou." Presented at the 2011 Delta Symposium: The Delta in Print, Image, and Sound, Jonesboro, Arkansas.
"Raising the Bar: Elite Advocacy in Supreme Court Public Interest Litigation." Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts.
"Joint Force Strategy and Base Closures," Presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Georgia Political Science Association, Savannah, Georgia.
Ongoing Research
Twelve Men of Average Ignorance: Using Election Results to Predict Jury Verdicts Untitled piece on the American judiciary as a mechanism to regulate political violence
Intervention Unnecessary: Bar Associations Picking Sides in Regulatory Actions
Building Judicial Independence: A Textual Analysis of the Judicial Response to Executive Power Claims
And the Spirit of the LORD Spake Within Them: The Use of Biblical Authority by State Supreme Courts, 1995-1998
Legitimating Massive Resistance: Using "Race-Neutral" Jurisprudence to Entrench White Supremacy
EEOC Proceedings as Tests of Prejudice: A New Approach to Reactions to Diversity
Professional Service
Discussant, "Courts in State and Local Politics and Policy," 2015 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.Chair, "Public Policy Across the American States: Undergraduate Research on Guns, Crime, and Poverty," 2015 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Discussant, "Arkansas Courts and Jurisprudence," 2012 Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Political Science Association, Conway, Arkansas.
Discussant, "Public Policy Enforcement," 2008 Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts.
Professional Experience
Practice Experience
Cases argued: Shelton v. Arkansas DHS (8th Cir. 2012); Floyd-Gimon v. UAMS (8th Cir. 2013); Jones v. State (Miss. Ct. App. 2014); Kirby v. Roth (8th Cir. 2013); Burnett v. Bank of New York Mellon (Miss. 2012); Marney v. Marney (Miss. 2014). Ghost-written: Brodie v. City of Jonesboro (Ark. Ct. App. 2012); Eusanio v. Tippin (Ark. Ct. App. 2013); Thompson v. Air Transport International, LLC (8th Cir. 2011); Bobo v. United Parcel Service (6th Cir. 2012); Green v. City of North Little Rock (Ark. Ct. App. 2012); Twiggs v. Selig (8th Cir. 2012); Shrable v. Eaton Corp., (8th Cir. 2012). Trials conducted: Bobo v. United Parcel Services (W.D. Tenn. 2012); Gilley v. Gilley (Desoto County, MS, Chancery Court 2013); Palmer v. Brown (Desoto County, MS, Chancery Court 2014); Patel v. Bhana (Desoto County, MS, Chancery Court; pending).
Academic Experience
Assistant Coach, Undergraduate Moot Court, Arkansas State UniversityJonesboro, Arkansas, 2010-2011
Other Experience and Honors
Graduate Council Fellow, The University of Alabama, 2014-2015Dean's Merit Award, The University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences, 2014-2017
Graduate Fellow, Arkansas State University, 2010-2011
Certificate in Public Interest Law, The University of Alabama School of Law, 2009
Law Clerk, Civil Air Patrol, 2008
Law Clerk, Service Employees International Union, 2007
Panel of Neutrals, FINRA
References
Hans J. Hacker, Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Arkansas State University
Jonesboro, Arkansas
William D. Blake, Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana
Paul Horwitz, Gordon Rosen Professor of Law
University of Alabama School of Law
Tuscaloosa, Alabama