2026 Lee Epstein: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	49	52	46	44	39	182	16749
Political Science	49	251	223	146	123	182	16749

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Overview

Lee Epstein is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on judicial and constitutional studies, legal and constitutional studies, and law, economics, and judicial systems, among other topics.

Key topics covered in their work include:

Judicial and Constitutional Studies
Legal and Constitutional Studies
Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
Legal Education and Practice Innovations
American Constitutional Law and Politics
Comparative and International Law Studies
European and International Law Studies

The main fields of study for Epstein are social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance. Their subfields include law, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, statistics and probability, and sociology and political science.

Frequent publication venues for Epstein's work include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Journal of Law and Courts
The Supreme Court Review
Leiden Journal of International Law

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Epstein include:

"The Roberts Court and the Transformation of Constitutional Protections for Religion," 2022, The Supreme Court Review
"How social identity and social diversity affect judging," 2022, Leiden Journal of International Law

Other significant papers linked with Epstein's coauthors include:

"Human Capital in Court: The Role of Attorney Experience in US Supreme Court Litigation," 2021, Journal of Law and Courts
"Is the US Supreme Court a reliable backstop for an overreaching US president? Maybe, but is an overreaching (partisan) court worse?," 2023, Presidential Studies Quarterly
"Developing High-Quality Data Infrastructure for Legal Analytics: Introducing the Israeli Supreme Court Database," 2020, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Epstein include:

Keren Weinshall
Rebecca L. Brown
Mitu Gulati
Urška Šadl
Andrew D. Martin

Epstein has contributed to book publications with several academic presses. These include:

The Strategic Analysis of Judicial Behavior (2021) published by Cambridge University Press
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour (2023) published by Oxford University Press
The Supreme Court Compendium: Two Centuries of Data, Decisions, and Developments (2021) published by CQ Press eBooks

Epstein has received multiple awards, such as being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2013, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2004.

Best Publications

The choices justices make

Lee Epstein;Donald Jack Knight

1957
Citations
Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging

Christina L. Boyd;Lee Epstein;Andrew D. Martin

893
Citations
The Rules of Inference

Lee Epstein;Gary King

887
Citations
Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices

Jeffrey A. Segal;Albert D. Cover

799
Citations
Measuring Issue Salience

Lee Epstein;Jeffrey A. Segal

794
Citations
ON THE NATURE OF SUPREME COURT DECISION MAKING

Tracey E. George;Lee Epstein

741
Citations
The Judicial Common Space

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

712
Citations
The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and Developments

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

622
Citations
The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice

Lee Epstein;William M. Landes;Richard A. Posner

617
Citations
The Supreme Court and Legal Change : Abortion and the Death Penalty

Lee Epstein;Joseph Fiske Kobylka

562
Citations
The Role of Constitutional Courts in the Establishment and Maintenance of Democratic Systems of Government

Lee Epstein;Jack Knight;Olga Shvetsova

558
Citations
Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments

Lee Epstein;Jeffrey Allan Segal

555
Citations
Ideological Drift Among Supreme Court Justices: Who, When, and How Important?

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

381
Citations
The Norm of Stare Decisis

Jack Knight;Lee Epstein

372
Citations
The Supreme Court as A Strategic National Policymaker

Lee Epstein;Jack Knight;Andrew D. Martin

346
Citations
Toward a Strategic Revolution in Judicial Politics: A Look Back, A Look Ahead

Lee Epstein;Jack Knight

321
Citations
The Median Justice on the United States Supreme Court

Andrew D. Martin;Kevin M. Quinn;Lee Epstein

310
Citations
The Supreme Court During Crisis: How War Affects only Non-War Cases

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

278
Citations
Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Revisited

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

257
Citations
WHY (AND WHEN) JUDGES DISSENT: A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

Lee Epstein;William M. Landes;Richard A. Posner

256
Citations
On the Mysterious Demise of Consensual Norms in the United States Supreme Court

Thomas G. Walker;Lee Epstein;William J. Dixon

239
Citations
Measuring Political Preferences

Lee Epstein;Carol Mershon

238
Citations
The Changing Dynamics of Senate Voting on Supreme Court Nominees

Lee Epstein;René Lindstädt;Jeffrey A. Segal;Chad Westerland

208
Citations
Conservatives in Court

Lee Epstein

205
Citations
On the struggle for judicial supremacy

Jack Knight;Lee Epstein

189
Citations
In Defense of American Liberties—a History of the ACLU. By Samuel Walker. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 479p. $24.95.

Lee Epstein

167
Citations
An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research

Lee Epstein;Andrew D. Martin

143
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey A. Segal Stony Brook University

Andrew D. Martin Washington University in St. Louis

William M. Landes University of Chicago

Richard A. Posner University of Chicago

Gary King Harvard University

Eric A. Posner University of Chicago

James L. Gibson Washington University in St. Louis

Paul A. Djupe Denison University

Malcolm M Feeley University of California, Berkeley

Steven S. Smith Washington University in St. Louis

External Links

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