Courses
Seminar in Political Economy; Topics in Philosophy of Law; Contemporary Democratic Theory; The Rule of Law; Individual, Family, and Community; The Meaning of National Security in the 21st Century

Research Interests
Modern social and political theory, law and legal theory, the political economy of institutions and philosophy of social science.

Selected Publications:

Courts, Judges and Politics (co-edited with C. Herman Pritchett, Walter Murphy and Lee Epstein) (New York: McGraw-Hill, 6th Edition), 2005.

“Institutionalizing Constitutional Democracy: A Strategic Analysis of the Role of the Courts,”(with Lee Epstein) in Irwin Morris, Joe Oppenheimer and Karol E. Soltan, eds. Politics From Anarchy to Democracy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press), 2004.

The Choices Justices Make (with Lee Epstein) (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press), 1998.

Explaining Social Institutions (edited with Itai Sened) (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press), 1995.

Institutions and Social Conflict (New York: Cambridge University Press), 1992.