"The Chief Justice and Judicial Decision-Making: The Institutional Basis for Leadership on the Supreme Court," in Institutional Approaches to Supreme Court Decision-Making. Cornell Clayton and Howard Gillman eds. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
"John Paul Stevens," The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary Melvin I. Urofsky ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994, 409-417.
"Justice William H. Rehnquist: Right-Wing Ideologue or Majoritarian Democrat?" The Burger Court: Political and Judicial Profiles, Charles Lamb and Stephen Halpern eds. Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991, Chapter 11.
"Gender Issues in the States: The Private Sphere and the Search for Equality," Human Rights in the States, Stanley H. Friedelbaum ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988, Chapter 4.
"Do Women Judges Speak 'In a Different Voice'? Carol Gilligan, Feminist Legal Theory, and the Ninth Circuit," Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 7-8 (March 1994), 143-173.
"Voting Behavior and Gender on the United States Courts of Appeals," Judicature 77 no. 3 (November-December 1993) 129-133. Coauthored with Donald R. Songer and Susan Haire.
"The Voice of Sandra Day O'Connor," Judicature 77 no. 3 (November-December 1993) 134-139. "Rehnquist and State Courts: Federalism Revisited," Western Political Quarterly 45 (September 1992), 773-782.
"The Supreme Court: Rehnquist's or Reagan's?" Western Political Quarterly 44 (March 1991) 87-99.
"Power on the Court: Chief Justice Rehnquist's Opinion Assignments," Judicature 74 (Aug.-Sept. 1990) 66-72. Reprinted in: Elliot E. Slotnick, ed. Judicial Politics: Readings from Judicature. American Judicature Society, 1992, 483-490; Randall B. Ripley and Elliott E. Slotnick, Readings in American Government. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1993; Susan Low Bloch and Tom Kraltenmaker, eds. Supreme Court Politics: The Institution and its Procedures. West Publishing Co., 1994.
"The Impact of Party and Region: Testing Alternative Models of Appeals Court Decision Making in the 1980s," Western Political Quarterly 43 (June 1990) 317-334. Coauthored with Donald R. Songer.
"The Changing Role of the United States Courts of Appeals: The Flow of Litigation Revisited," Justice System Journal 13 (1988-89) 323-340. Coauthored with Donald R. Songer.
"Carter's Nominating Commissions for the United States Courts of Appeals: An End Run Around Senatorial Courtesy," Southeastern Political Review 16 no. 2 (Fall 1988). Coauthored with Donald R. Songer.
"State Constitutions, Freedom of Expression and Search and Seizure: Prospects for State Court Reincarnation," Publius 17 no. 1 (Winter 1987) 13-32. Coauthored with Taunya L. Banks.
"The Impact of President Carter's Selection Reforms on Judicial Policy Making: A Voting Analysis of the United States Courts of Appeals," American Politics Quarterly 14 no.4 (October 1986) 328-344.
"Federalism and Property Rights: An Examination of Justice Rehnquist's Legal Positivism," Western Political Quarterly 38 no. 2 (June 1986) 250-264.
"Justice Rehnquist's Judicial Philosophy: Democracy v. Equality," Polity 17 (Fall 1984) 88-117.
"Justice Rehnquist's Equal Protection Clause: An Interim Analysis," Nebraska Law Review 63 (Spring 1984) 288-313.
"The Supreme Court: Finding State Action...Sometimes," Howard Law Journal 26 (July 1983).
"Affirmative Action: The Quality of the Debate." Review of Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby by Stephen L. Carter; Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics by Bron Raymond Taylor; The Constitutional Logic of Affirmative Action by Ronald J. Fiscus; Invisible Victims: White Males and the Crisis of Affirmative Action. National Political Science Review 5, 512-527 (1994).
"The Past as the Source of Authority in Constitutional Interpretation." Journal of Political Science 15 nos. 1 & 2 (Spring 1987) 85-95.
Review of Not a Particularly Different Voice: The Jurisprudence of Sandra Day O'Connor by Robert W. Van Sickel. Law and Politics Book Review. An Electronic Periodical Published by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. December 1998.
Review of Cardozo by Andrew L. Kaufman. Law and Politics Book Review. An Electronic Periodical Published by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. August, 1998.
Review of Justice Antonin Scalia and the Conservative Revival by Richard A. Brisbin, Jr. American Political Science Review 92 no. 3 (September 1998): 701-2.
Review of Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren by Ed Cray. Journal of Politics 60 no. 4 (November 1998): 1228-1230.
Review of Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection From Roosevelt Through Reagan by Sheldon Goldman. Law and Politics Book Review. An Electronic Periodical Published by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. January, 1998.
Review of A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law by Antonin Scalia. Law and Politics Book Review. An Electronic Periodical Published by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. July 3, 1997.
Review of The Warren Court: A Retrospective ed. Bernard Schwartz. Law and Politics Book Review. An Electronic Periodical Published by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. January 7, 1997.
Review of Brennan vs. Rehnquist: The Battle for the Constitution by Peter Irons. Law and History Review 15 no. 2 (Autumn 1997) 428-430.
Review of The Growth of American Government: Governance From The Cleveland Era To The Present by Ballard C. Campbell. H-Pol, Summer 1996.
Review of Mothers in Law: Feminist Theory and the Legal Regulation of Motherhood. ed. Martha Albertson Fineman and Isabel Karpin. American Political Science Review 90 no. 2 (June 1996) 426-427.
Review of The Supreme Court and Legal Change: Abortion and the Death Penalty by Lee Epstein and Joseph F. Kobylka; and The Supreme Court and Partisan Realignment: A Macro-and Microlevel Perspective by John B. Gates. Southeastern Political Review 23 no. 3 (September 1995) 528-531.
Review of Compassionate Authority: Democracy and the Representation of Women by Kathleen B. Jones. Journal of Politics 56 no. 3 (August 1994).
Review of Women in American Law: The Struggle Toward Equality from the New Deal to the Present by Judith A. Baer. Journal of Politics 55 no. 1 (February 1993).
Review of Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations by Derek Davis. Political Science Quarterly 107 no. 1 (Spring 1992), 184-186.
Review of The Liberals and J. Edgar Hoover: The Rise and Fall of a Domestic Intelligence State by William W. Keller; and The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition by Athan G. Theoharis and John Stuart Cox. American Political Science Review 84 no. 4 (December 1990).
Review of Protecting Constitutional Freedoms: A Role for Federal Courts by Daan Braveman. Political Science Quarterly 105 no. 2 (Summer 1990).
Review of Constitutional Dialogues by Louis Fisher. Journal of Politics 52 (February 1990) 290-292.
Review of Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice by Bruce Allen Murphy. American Political Science Review 83 no. 3 (September 1989) 1025-1027.
“Griswold v Connecticut,” in Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women’s Reproductive Rights in the United States. Greenwood Press (forthcoming).
"Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Multiple Traditions." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 1998.
"Leadership On the Supreme Court and The New Institutionalism: Not Old Wine In New Bottles." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, October 1997.
"The New Institutionalism and Leadership on the Supreme Court." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, July 1996.
"Exploring the Feminist Theories of Elizabeth Cady Stanton." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 1996.
"Justice John Paul Stevens and Individual Rights: An Overview." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, November 1993.
"Do Women Judges Speak in `A Different Voice'?" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 1991.
"Gender Effects in the Voting of Judges in the United States Courts of Appeals." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 1991.
"Do Women Judges Speak In A Different Voice? The Opinions of the Women of The Ninth Circuit." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, May 1990.
"Power on the Court: Chief Justice Rehnquist's Opinion Assignments." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, November 1989.
"Chief Justice Rehnquist: The First Two Terms." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 1989.
"The Impact of Party and Region: Testing Alternative Models of Appeals Court Decision Making in the 1980s." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1988.
"The Changing Role of the United States Courts of Appeals: The Flow of Litigation Revisited." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, June 1988.
"The Jurisprudence of Justice Rehnquist." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, November 1987.
"The First Amendment May Speak with a Different Voice: Justice Rehnquist and Freedom of Expression." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 1986.
"Constitutional Change Through Judicial Review: A Dialectical View." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, March 1986.
"State Constitutions, Freedom of Speech and Search and Seizure: Prospects for State Court Reincarnation." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 1985.
"Property and State Autonomy: An Examination of Justice Rehnquist's Legal Positivism." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 1984.
"Carter's Judicial Nominating Commissions: Senatorial Influence in the Selection of Judges for the United States Courts of Appeals." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, March 1984.
"President Carter's Judicial Selection Reforms: A Hidden Impact?" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, March 1984.
"President Carter's Judicial Appointments: A Voting Analysis of the United States Courts of Appeals." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, November 1983.
"Justice Rehnquist's Equal Protection Clause: An Interim Analysis." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, March 1982.
"The Supreme Court and the Concept of State Action: An Emerging Double Standard?" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 1981.
Panel Participant, Lifetime Achievement Award: Beverly Blair Cook, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2000.
Panel Discussant, "Supreme Court Strategies," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1999.
Panel Chair, "Judicial Behavior at Fifty: Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of C.Herman Pritchett's The Roosevelt Court," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1998.
Panel Chair, "Courts and Inter-Institutional Politics," Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 1999.
Panel Discussant, "Activism, Restraint and the Separation of Powers," Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 1998.
Panel Chair, "Reframing Perspectives on Abortion, Politics, and Law: A Roundtable discussion of Breaking the Abortion Deadlock and No Neutral Ground?" Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1997.
Panel Discussant, "Uncovering the Role of Gender in the American Legal System," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1997.
Panel Participant, "Roundtable: The New Historical Institutionalism and the Study of Law and Courts," Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 1997.
Panel Participant, "Roundtable: The Second Reconstruction and the Rehnquist Court." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 1996.
Panel Discussant, "Citizenship and Incorporation." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 1996.
Panel Participant, "Roundtable: New Departures in the Study of Public Law." Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 1996.
Panel Discussant, "Democratic Theory and Practice," Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, November 1995.
Panel Discussant, "The Dynamics of Supreme Court Decision-Making," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 1995.
Panel Discussant, "Federalism: Doctrines, Politics, Practices," Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, June 1995.
Panel Discussant, "Feminist Jurisprudence," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 1994.
Panel Discussant, "Models of Supreme Court Decision-Making." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 1994.
Panel Participant, "Using and Abusing Data in the Study of Law and Courts: A Hands-On Demonstration and Discussion." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 1993.
Panel Participant, "Conservative Judging Against the Tide of Politics: Are the 1990's the 1930's Revisited?" Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 1993.
Panel Chair and Discussant, "Whither the Supreme Court?" Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 1993.
Panel Discussant, "The Rehnquist Court," Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, November 1992.
Commentator, "Perspectives on Chief Justice Rehnquist," September 18, 1992, Rutgers-Camden Law School.
Panel Participant, "Roundtable: A Tribute to Beverly Blair Cook's Contributions to Public Law," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1992.
Panel Discussant, "The (In)Determinancy of Constitutional Discourse," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1992.
Panel Chair and Discussant, "Crossing the Public Private Boundary: The Place of Interest and Belief in the Judicial Process," Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, May 1992.
Panel Participant, "A Tribute to C. Herman Pritchett's Contributions," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 1991.
Roundtable Participant, "The Supreme Court Data Base," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1990.
Panel Discussant, "The Supreme Court, Judicial Interpretation, and Social Reform," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1989.
Panel Discussant, "Understanding the Bork Nomination," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1988.
Panel Chair and Discussant, "The Rehnquist Court," Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 1988.
Panel Discussant, "The Constitutional Bicentennial," Clemson University, July 1987. Bicentennial Lecture, "Constitutional Interpretation: Objective Description or Subjective Creation?" Southeastern Massachusetts University, March 1987.
Panel Chair, "Judicial Innovation and Diffusion," Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 1987.
Panel Discussant, "The Burger Court," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 1986
Workshop Participant, "Beyond the New Judicial Federalism," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 1986.
Panel Discussant, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Public Administration, October 1983.
Panel Discussant, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 1982.
Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising Award, University of Delaware, 1998.
General University Research Grant, University of Delaware, Summer 1996.
General University Research Grant, University of Delaware, Summer 1990. Supplemental Funds Grant, College of Arts and Science, University of Delaware, August 1989.
Project '87 Seminar, "Who Shall Interpret?" Directed by Walter F. Murphy, Summer 1985.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1985.
University of Tulsa, Faculty Research Fellowship, Summer 1985.
University of Tulsa College of Arts and Sciences Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1982, 1983, 1984.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "The Role of the Courts." Directed by Joel Grossman, 1983.