Nancy Maveety

LAPA Visiting Scholar, 2005-2006
Tulane University, Department of Political Science

316 Norman Mayer Hall, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118
nance@tulane.edu
phone: 504-862-8300 ; fax: 504-862-8745
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While at LAPA
Nancy Maveety is a former chair of the political science department at Tulane University. She visited us as a WWS-LAPA-Katrina fellow. She is the author of Representation Rights and the Burger Years (Michigan, 1991) and Sandra Day O'Connor: Strategist on the Supreme Court (Rowman Littlefield, 1996). She is also the editor of The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior (Michigan, 2003), which is on the public law generals exam list in the politics department at Princeton. She is presently working on a book on the Rehnquist Court with a National Science Foundation grant to review the Blackmun papers. Maveety was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Estonia in 2001 which resulted in the article, "Constrained: Constitutional Courts as Conduits for Democratic Consolidation" in the Law and Society Review (June 2004). In addition to her non-fiction writing, she is also the author of a presciently titled novel called The Stagnant Pool: Scholars Below Sea Level, (University Press of the South, 2000).

Life after LAPA
Nancy Maveety is a professor of political science at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and writes on judicial decision making and the U.S. Supreme Court. She is completing a book forthcoming with the University of Kansas Press entitled Queen's Court: Judicial Power in the Rehnquist Era. Other current work includes a collaborative book project on the history and development of concurring behavior and opinion-writing on the Supreme Court. During 2007-2008, she will be a Fulbright lecturer and visiting scholar to the People's Republic of China. Prof. Maveety was a LAPA fellow and “Katrina fellow” in Fall 2005, returning to her life in New Orleans and the reopening of Tulane University in January 2006.