Rate My Professor Scott Boddery

Boddery’s research focuses on judicial politics, institutional design, Supreme Court legitimacy, public opinion on courts, executive-judicial interactions, judicial behavior, and the effects of opinion writers, media cues, and confirmation tactics on public support for Supreme Court decisions. His publications include “Courts and Executives” in The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior (2017), “Electronic Wills: Drawing a Line in the Sand Against Their Validity” (2012), “Do Policy Messengers Matter? Majority Opinion Writers as Policy Cues in Public Agreement with Supreme Court Decisions” (2014), “Presidential Use of Diversionary Drone Force and Public Support” (2021), “Naming Names: The Impact of Supreme Court Opinion Attribution on Citizen Assessment of Policy Outcomes” (2019), “Signals from a Politicized Bar: The Solicitor General as a Direct Litigant before the U.S. Supreme Court” (2019), and “Emerging Hardball Confirmation Tactics and Public Support for the U.S. Supreme Court” (2022). He authored op-eds such as “What Senators Should Ask Brett Kavanaugh” (2018). Boddery taught courses including constitutional law, civil liberties and rights, American government, legal policy, research methods, and Legal Analysis. He received the Ralph Cavaliere Endowed Teaching Award in 2018.