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🌟 Job Market Spotlight 🌟 Meet Justin Burnworth, a Ph.D. candidate at UMass Amherst. His research explores how Supreme Court justices craft and justify opinions, the politics of Court nominations, and the dynamics of constitutional change. Learn more: sites.google.com/umass.edu/justinburnworth/bio

🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com

Read It. Cite It. Syllabus It. And use for tenure letters! FANTASTIC WORK by @abbymatthews.bsky.social @alyxmark.bsky.social and Monica Lineberger! cc: @lawcourtsapsa.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The University of Houston is looking to hire a political theorist who specializes in American Political Thought or Constitutional theory and development. Here's the link: careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...

Jeff Staton presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Charles Cameron 🏆👏 Congratulations to Dr. Cameron on this well-deserved honor and thank you for your extraordinary contributions to our field!

Another highlight of the weekend was watching Kayla Canelo present the Lasting Contribution Award to Tim Johnson, Paul Wahlbeck, and James Spriggs (in photo) for their landmark article ‘The Influence of Oral Arguments on the U.S. Supreme Court.’ 🏆👏

We were thrilled to watch Ali Masood present the C. Herman Pritchett Award to Ryan Black, Ryan Owens, and Patrick Wohlfarth for their book Cognitive Aging and the Federal Circuit Courts. Congratulations to all three on this well-deserved recognition!

Sara Heridia presented the Mentoring Award to Ryan Black 🎉👏 Huge congratulations to Ryan for his exceptional guidance and support of emerging scholars!

Weekend highlight: Elizabeth Lane presenting Andrew O'Donohue with the Best Conference Paper award! 🏅🎉

🐌 UC Santa Cruz (home of the Banana Slugs!) is hiring a tenure-track/tenured Teaching Professor of Legal Studies. Applications due 11/14. Apply here 👉 recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01985

Congrats to Benjamin Garcia-Holgado for the best dissertation in public law! Also shoutout to Jan Eijking for the best dissertation in the field of international relations, law and politics! Make sure you check out these wonderful scholars (and more) below!

We're back, y'all! Hitting that #TenureTrackHustle hard, but finding time to support our fellow #JudicialWomen nonetheless! LET'S GO!!!!!!!!! (PS - follow @lawcourtsapsa.bsky.social for all your official APSA Law and Courts content) (PPS - We are not judges, please don't tag us to yell at them!)

Each year at #APSA our section honors a scholar with the Lifetime Achievement Award. 🎉 This year we celebrate Chuck Cameron! Join us for a roundtable on his scholarship, teaching, and mentorship: 📅 Fri Sept 12 | 4:00–5:30pm PDT 📍 Vancouver CC, West Level 3, West 302 & 303

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