New Faculty Publication
Professor Max Palmer has just published another important scholarly article: “Does the Chief Justice Make Partisan Appointments to Special Courts and Panels?” The article has just been published by the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. In the paper, Palmer analyzes appointments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the court that oversees all domestic surveillance for national security, including domestic data collection by the National Security Agency (NSA). He uses simulation models to show that appointments to this court are highly partisan. This timely and absorbing paper is available online.