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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jeffrey A. Segal is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the social sciences, with a focus on law, sociology and political science, as well as economics and econometrics.

The main topics covered in their work include judicial and constitutional studies, law, rights and freedoms, and legal and constitutional studies.

Frequent coauthors include Lee Epstein, Harold J. Spaeth, Tom Walker, Albert H. Rivero, and Ellen Key.

Segal has contributed to academic journals such as the Justice System Journal and the Medical Research Archives. Notable recent papers include:

  • Invisible Constitutions: Concurring Opinions and Plurality Judgments under Marks v. United States (2022), published in Justice System Journal
  • Aspects on the Constitutional Imperative and Domestic Legislation in Context of Mental Health Care Law in South Africa (2025), published in Medical Research Archives

In addition to journal articles, Segal has authored books published by CQ Press eBooks. One example is The Supreme Court Compendium: Two Centuries of Data, Decisions, and Developments (2021).

Jeffrey A. Segal has been recognized with awards including Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2011.

Best Publications

  • The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited

    Jeffrey Allan Segal;Harold J. Spaeth

  • The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model

    Harold J Spaeth;Jeffrey A. Segal

  • Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices

    Jeffrey A. Segal;Albert D. Cover

  • Measuring Issue Salience

    Lee Epstein;Jeffrey A. Segal

  • Separation-of-Powers Games in the Positive Theory of Congress and Courts

    Jeffrey A. Segal

  • The Judicial Common Space

    Lee Epstein;Andrew D. Martin;Andrew D. Martin;Jeffrey A. Segal;Chad Westerland

  • The Hierarchy of Justice: Testing a Principal-Agent Model of Supreme Court-Circuit Court Interactions

    Donald R. Songer;Jeffrey A. Segal;Charles M. Cameron

  • The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and Developments

    Lee Epstein;Jeffrey Allan Segal;Harold J. Spaeth;Thomas G. Walker

  • Supreme Court decision making

    Jeffrey A. Segal;Harold J. Spaeth;Sara C. Benesh

  • Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments

    Lee Epstein;Jeffrey Allan Segal

  • Predicting Supreme Court Cases Probabilistically: The Search and Seizure Cases, 1962-1981

    Jeffrey A. Segal

  • Strategic Auditing in a Political Hierarchy: An Informational Model of the Supreme Court's Certiorari Decisions

    Charles M. Cameron;Jeffrey A. Segal;Donald Songer

  • The Influence of Stare Decisis on the Votes of United States Supreme Court Justices

    Jeffrey A. Segal;Harold J. Spaeth

  • Ideological Drift Among Supreme Court Justices: Who, When, and How Important?

    Lee Epstein;Andrew D. Martin;Kevin M. Quinn;Jeffrey A. Segal

  • Senate Voting on Supreme Court Nominees: A Neoinstitutional Model

    Charles M. Cameron;Albert D. Cover;Jeffrey A. Segal

  • A Spatial Model of Roll Call Voting: Senators, Constituents, Presidents, and Interest Groups in Supreme Court Confirmations

    Jeffrey A. Segal;Charles M. Cameron;Albert D. Cover

  • Supreme Court Justices as Strategic Decision Makers: Aggressive Grants and Defensive Denials on the Vinson Court

    Robert L. Boucher;Jeffrey A. Segal

  • The Supreme Court During Crisis: How War Affects only Non-War Cases

    Lee Epstein;Daniel E. Ho;Gary King;Jeffrey A. Segal

  • Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Revisited

    Jeffrey A. Segal;Lee Epstein;Charles M. Cameron;Harold J. Spaeth

  • The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited: Frontmatter

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  • Popular influence on supreme court decisions

    Helmut Norpoth;Jeffrey A. Segal;William Mishler;Reginald S. Sheehan

  • Buyer Beware? Presidential Success through Supreme Court Appointments

    Jeffrey A. Segal;Richard J. Timpone;Robert M. Howard

  • Amicus Curiae Briefs By the Solicitor General During the Warren and Burger Courts: a Research Note:

    Jeffrey A. Segal

  • Separation-of-Powers Games in the Positive Theory of

    Jeffrey A. Segal

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein Washington University in St. Louis
Andrew D. Martin
Andrew D. Martin Washington University in St. Louis
Donald R. Songer
Donald R. Songer University of South Carolina
Gary King
Gary King Harvard University
Alan I. Abramowitz
Alan I. Abramowitz Emory University
Helmut Norpoth
Helmut Norpoth Stony Brook University
Steven S. Smith
Steven S. Smith Washington University in St. Louis
William Mishler
William Mishler University of Arizona

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