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...wouldn't be the first Justice on the move. Contrary to everything we think we know about Justices, they're ideological drifters, according to a surprising study scheduled for publication this summer in the Northwestern University Law Review. They apparently move from right to left, left to right and sometimes back again. And it's not just a Hugo Black, who dismayed liberals by rejecting a right to sexual privacy between married couples, or a Harry Blackmun, the conservative who came to write the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade. It's virtually every Justice appointed since 1937, the study...
Experts who study the court say they have only recently figured out how to measure these ideological movements. A big problem has always been trying to compare Justices and cases from different decades. The math is complex, but Professor Lee Epstein of Northwestern Law School and three other professors came up with a formula that in effect puts the 26 Justices who served at least 10 court terms since 1937 on the bench at the same time. They essentially grouped cases involving similar areas of the law and placed the votes in those cases on a scale ranging from very...
...awesome work ethic, loves the game and really is thrilled to be back in Cambridge.” Shields is definitely a breath of fresh air for the program after going through three head coaches in one year. After Stephanie Erickson left to take the head-coaching job at Northwestern last July and Erica Walsh left for Penn State in February, Leone took the reins and made sure to bring Shields with him. “It’s definitely great to have a person who’s been through the Harvard experience, even more broadly...
Before joining the Northwestern faculty, Spier worked at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business...
...there keeping my fingers crossed, making that lineup up each day,” Walsh said. “I’m sitting on it all night trying to make something work, and we just can’t seem to get it going.”NORTHWESTERN 10, HARVARD 9After Harvard surged ahead with a late-inning rally, the bullpen blew a 9-7 edge in the ninth against the Wildcats (6-13).The Crimson picked up four runs in the eighth and three in the ninth to take its first lead of the game.But in the home...