Jeffrey A. Segal

Stony Brook University, The State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York ~SUNY Distinguished Professor of Political Science. Specializes in the study of judicial behavior, especially the systematic analysis of judicial appointments, judicial attitudes and ideology, the separation-of-powers system, and the hierarchy of justice. Book The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited (with Harold Spaeth, 2002) validates the use of the attitudinal model to explain and predict Supreme Court decision-making and critiques the two major alternative models of decision-making and their major variants-namely, the legal and rational choice models. In The Supreme Court During Crisis (2005), he and colleagues studied the period from 1941 to 2002 and found the Court more likely to restrict liberties during war or other crisis than during peacetime. Another article, Predicting Supreme Court Cases Probabilistically: The Search and Seizure Cases, 1962-1981 (1984), received the Wadsworth Award for a book or article, ten years or older, that has had a lasting influence on the field of law and courts. Book Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court (with Harold Spaeth, 1999) received the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association for best book in law and courts. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011.~