Research: Judicial Decision Making; Lower Federal Courts.
Teaching: Judicial Politics; Judicial Process; Gender and Law; and Social Science Research Design.
Education:
| 1993 |
Ph.D. |
Political Science |
University of South Carolina |
| 1985 |
M.P.A. |
Public Administration |
University of West Florida |
| 1982 |
A.B. |
Political Science |
University of Georgia |
Statement of Interests:
Dr. Haire's research and teaching interests center on the study of judicial process and behavior in the lower courts. She is currently involved in a study of advocacy that explores the connections between litigants, attorneys, case processing, and decision making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals.
Selected Publications/Presentations:
Erin Kaheny, Susan Haire, and Sara Benesh. “Change over Tenure: Voting, Variance, and Decision making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals.” American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.
Stefanie Lindquist, Susan Haire, and Donald Songer. “Supreme Court Auditing of the U.S. Courts of Appeals: An Organizational Perspective.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (2007) 17:607-624.
Susan Haire. “Judicial Selection and Decision Making in the Ninth Circuit.”Arizona Law Review 48 (2006) 267-285
Rorie Spill-Solberg, Jolly Emrey, and Susan Haire. “Inter-court dynamics and the Development of Legal Policy: Citation Patterns in the Decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.” Policy Studies Journal 34(2006) 277-293.
Susan Haire, Stefanie Lindquist, and Donald Songer. "Appellate Court Supervision in the Federal Judiciary: A Hierarchical Perspective," Law and Society Review (2003)143-167.
Donald R. Songer, Reginald Sheehan, and Susan Haire. "Do the Haves come out ahead over time? Applying Galanter's Framework to decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 1925-1988." Law and Society Review 33, No. 4, (1999 ).811-832. Reprinted in In Litigation: Do the ‘Haves’ Still Come out Ahead ed. Herbert M. Kritzer and Susan S. Silbey, Stanford University Press (2003)pp. 85-107 |
