Research & Data

Research by Topic

Judicial Diversity/Gender, Race, & the Law

Publications, Works in Progress, & Grants

  • Boyd, Christina L., Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand. 2023. Supreme Bias? Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings. Stanford University Press.
  • Boyd, Christina L., Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand. N.D. “Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings.” Accepted for publication American Political Science Review.
  • National Science Foundation Grant SES-2141551. Principal Investigator. “Creating the Federal Judicial Database and Research Agenda.” Law and Science Program. 2022-2025. $483,086.
  • Boyd, Christina L. and Sidney Shank.* 2023. “How Gender Biased Oral Argument Interruptions Opened the Door for Chief Justice Roberts to be a Transformational Leader.” Boston University Law Review 103 (6): 1806-1817.
  • Boyd, Christina L., Paul M. Collins, Jr., Lori A. Ringhand, and Karson A. Pennington.* 2023. “Constructing the Supreme Court: How Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Have Affected Presidential Selection and Senate Confirmation Hearings.” Polity 55: 400-409.
  • Boldt, Ethan D., Christina L. Boyd, Roberto F. Carlos, and Matthew E. Baker.* 2021. “The Effects of Judge Race and Sex on Pretrial Detention Decisions.” Justice System Journal 42:341-358.
  • Boyd, Christina L. and Adam G. Rutkowski.* 2020 “Judicial Behavior in Disability Cases: Do Judge Sex and Race Matter?” Politics, Groups, and Identities 8: 834-844.
  • Boyd, Christina L., Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand. 2018. “The Role of Nominee Gender and Race at U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings.” Law & Society Review 52: 871-901.
  • Boyd, Christina L. and Michael J. Nelson. 2017. “The Effects of Trial Judge Gender and Public Opinion on Criminal Sentencing Decisions.” Vanderbilt Law Review 70: 1819-1843.
  • Boyd, Christina L. 2016. “Representation on the Courts? The Effects of Trial Judges’ Sex and Race.” Political Research Quarterly 69: 788-799.
  • Boyd, Christina L. 2013. “She’ll Settle It?” Journal of Law and Courts 1(2): 193-219.
  • Boyd, Christina L., Lee Epstein, and Andrew D. Martin. 2010. “Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging.” American Journal of Political Science. 54(2): 389-411.
U.S. Courts and Bureaucracy

Publications, Works in Progress, & Grants

  • Blasingame, Elise N.,* Christina L. Boyd, Roberto F. Carlos, and Joseph T. Ornstein. N.D. “How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging.” Accepted for publication American Political Science Review.
  • Boyd, Christina L., Roberto F. Carlos, Margaret H. Taylor, Matthew E. Baker,* and Elise Blasingame.* 2023. “Congressional Constraint? The Review of In Absentia Immigration Removal Orders in Federal Circuit Courts.” Political Research Quarterly 76(4):1674-1690.
  • Boyd, Christina L., Michael J. Nelson, Ian Ostrander, and Ethan D. Boldt. The Politics of Federal Prosecution. Oxford University Press. 2021.
  • National Science Foundation Grant SES-1626932. Principal Investigator. “How Social Security Administration Appeals Fare in the Federal Trial Courts.” Law and Social Sciences and Science of Organizations Programs. 2016-2021. $243,297. (Co-Principal Investigators Ainsworth and Lynch).
  • National Science Foundation Grant SES-1626932. Principal Investigator. “Supplemental Funding: How Social Security Administration Appeals Fare in the Federal Trial Courts.” Law and Social Sciences Program. 2019-2021. $45,986.
  • Boldt, Ethan D.* and Christina L. Boyd. 2018. “The Political Responsiveness of Violent Crime Prosecution.” Political Research Quarterly 71: 936-948.
  • Barnett, Kent, Christina L. Boyd, and Christopher J. Walker. 2018. “Administrative Law’s Political Dynamics.” Vanderbilt Law Review 71: 1463-1526.
  • Barnett, Kent, Christina L. Boyd, and Christopher J. Walker. 2018. “The Politics of Selecting Chevron Deference.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 15: 597-619.
  • Boyd, Christina L. and Amanda Driscoll. 2013. “The Politics of Adjudicatory Oversight in Executive Branch Agencies.” American Politics Research. 41(4): 569-598.
Trial Courts, Judicial Politics, & Judicial Behavior

Publications, Works in Progress, & Grants

  • Boyd, Christina L., David Cottrell, Geoffrey Sheagley, and Albert H. Yoon. “Judges as Participants in Democracy.” Draft in Preparation.
  • Boyd, Christina L., Tracey E. George, and Albert H. Yoon. 2022. “The Emerging Authority of Magistrate Judges within U.S. District Courts.” Journal of Law and Courts 10: 37-60.
  • Boyd, Christina L., Pauline T. Kim, and Margo Schlanger. 2020. “Mapping the Iceberg: The Impact of Data Sources on the Study of District Courts.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 17(3): 466-492.
  • Boyd, Christina L., and Adam G. Rutkowski.* 2020. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. “Trial Courts in the United States.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press.
  • Boyd, Christina L. and David A. Hoffman. 2017. “The Use and Reliability of Federal Nature of Suit Codes.” Michigan State Law Review 2017: 997-1032.
  • Boyd, Christina L. 2017. “Gatekeeping and Filtering in Trial Courts” in The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior. Lee Epstein and Stefanie A. Lindquist, eds. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Boyd, Christina L. and Ethan D. Boldt.* 2017. “U.S. District Courts.” In Routledge Handbook Judicial Behavior. Robert M. Howard and Kirk A. Randazzo, eds. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Boyd, Christina L. 2016. “The Comparative Outputs of Magistrate Judges.” Nevada Law Journal 16:949-982.
  • Boyd, Christina L. 2015. “The Hierarchical Influence of Courts of Appeals on District Courts.” Journal of Legal Studies 44(1): 113-141.
  • Boyd, Christina L. 2015. “Litigant Status and Trial Court Appeal Mobilization.” Law & Policy 37(4): 294-323.
  • Boyd, Christina L. 2015. “Opinion Writing in the Federal District Courts.” Justice System Journal 36(3): 254-273.
  • Boyd, Christina L., Michael S. Lynch, and Anthony J. Madonna. 2015. “Nuclear Fallout: Investigating the Effect of Senate Procedural Reform on Judicial Nominations.” The Forum 13(4): 623-641.
  • Boyd, Christina L. 2015. “In Defense of Empirical Legal Studies.” Buffalo Law Review 63: 363-377.
  • Black, Ryan C., Christina L. Boyd, and Amanda C. Bryan.* 2015. “Revisiting the Influence of Law Clerks on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Agenda-Setting Process.” Marquette Law Review 98(1): 75-109.
  • Boyd, Christina L. and David A. Hoffman. 2013. “Litigating Toward Settlement.” Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 29(4): 898-929.
  • Boyd, Christina L. and Jacqueline Sievert.* 2013. “Unaccountable Justice? The Decision Making of Magistrate Judges in the Federal District Courts.” Justice System Journal 34(3): 249-273.
  • Black, Ryan C. and Christina L. Boyd. 2013. “Selecting the Select Few: The Discuss List and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Agenda-Setting Process.” Social Science Quarterly 94(4): 1124-1144.
  • Boyd, Christina L., David A. Hoffman, Zoran Obradovic, and Kosta Ristovski.* 2013. “Building a Taxonomy of Litigation: Clusters of Causes of Action in Federal Civil Complaints.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 10(1): 253-287.
  • Black, Ryan C. and Christina L. Boyd. 2012. “The Role of Law Clerks in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Agenda-Setting Process.” American Politics Research 40: 147-173.
  • Black, Ryan C. and Christina L. Boyd. 2012. “US Supreme Court Agenda Setting and the Role of Litigant Status.” Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 28(2): 286-312.
  • Boyd, Christina L. and David A. Hoffman. 2010. “Disputing Limited Liability.” Northwestern University Law Review 104(3): 853-916.
  • Boyd, Christina L. and James F. Spriggs, II. 2009. “An Examination of Strategic Anticipation of Appellate Court Preferences by Federal District Court Judges.” Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 29: 37-80.
  • Kim, Pauline, Margo Schlanger, Christina L. Boyd, and Andrew D. Martin. 2009. “How Should We Study District Judge Decision-Making?” Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 29: 83-112.
  • Epstein, Lee, Andrew D. Martin, and Christina L. Boyd. 2007. “On the Effective Communication of the Results of Empirical Studies, Part II.” Vanderbilt Law Review 60: 798-846.

Data

Links to Data Resources

Grants

Grant Funding Details
  • National Science Foundation Grant SES-2141551. Principal Investigator. “Creating the Federal Judicial Database and Research Agenda.” Law and Science Program. 2022-2025. $483,086.
  • Law and Science Dissertation Grant via National Science Foundation (SBE-2016661), administered by Arizona State University. Co-Principal Investigator. “Framing the Law: Judges and Jury Instructions.” 2022-2023. $16,654. Graduate Advisee: Matthew Baker.
  • National Science Foundation Grant SES-1626932. Principal Investigator. “How Social Security Administration Appeals Fare in the Federal Trial Courts.” Law and Social Sciences and Science of Organizations Programs. 2016-2021. (Co-Principal Investigators Scott H. Ainsworth and Michael S. Lynch). $243,297.
  • National Science Foundation Grant SES-1626932. Principal Investigator. “Supplemental Funding: How Social Security Administration Appeals Fare in the Federal Trial Courts.” Law and Social Sciences Program. 2019-2021. $45,986.
  • National Science Foundation Grant SES-1729077. Principal Investigator. “Doctoral Dissertation Research: The People and Process of Federal Criminal Cases.” Law and Social Sciences Program. 2017-2018. Graduate Advisee: Ethan Boldt. $17,615.
  • Faculty Research Grant in the Sciences. “Policy Making in the Federal District Courts.” University of Georgia Research Foundation. $7,000.
  • Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, Annual Research Grant, University at Buffalo, SUNY. 2012-2013; 2011-2012; 2010-2011; 2009-2010.
  • National Science Foundation Grant SES-0818751. “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Placing Federal District Courts in the Judicial Hierarchy.” 2008. Graduate Advisor: Andrew D. Martin. $11,154.