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Keck discusses the history of packing the Supreme Court on C-SPAN

"The size of the court is not specified in the constitution and it's changed multiple times…in the first 100 years it was a regular occurrence for Congress to change the size of the Supreme Court," says Thomas Keck, professor of political science and Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics.

March 22, 2019

See related: Congress, SCOTUS, United States

Journalism and Ideals of Democracy

These are interesting times for journalists in America. We reached out to nine of them, all with degrees from Maxwell. With their public affairs education, they understand as well as any journalists what the vigor of the press means to us all.

May 21, 2018

Keck paper on assessing judicial empowerment published in Laws journal

Thomas M. Keck

April 17, 2018

See related: Law

Thorson paper on fight against fake news published in Science

David Lazer, Matthew Baum, Yochai Benkler, Adam Berinsky, Kelly Greenhill, Filippo Menczer, Miriam Metzger, Brendan Nyhan, Gordon Pennycook, David Rothschild, Michael Schudson, Steven Sloman, Cass Sunstein, Emily Thorson, Duncan Watts & Jonathan Zittrain

Emily Thorson, assistant professor of political science, and co-authors call for a coordinated investigation into the underlying social, psychological and technological forces behind fake news to counteract the phenomenon's negative influence on society.

March 9, 2018

See related: Civil Rights

Monnat study on disparities in Hispanic health insurance coverage rates published in Rural Sociology

Shannon M. Monnat

August 16, 2016

See related: Civil Rights, Insurance

Veil of Darkness

William Horrace uses an economist’s analytical approach to study whether traffic-stop patterns reveal racial bias by police officers.

June 1, 2016

See related: Civil Rights, Race & Ethnicity

Schewe article on amenity migration published in Society & Natural Resources

Kristi S. Lekies, David Matarrita-Cascante, Rebecca Schewe & Richelle Winkler

August 24, 2015

See related: Civil Rights, Migration

Human Rights under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt, and India

Yüksel Sezgin

December 31, 2013

See related: Human Rights, Religion

Human Rights and Legal Pluralism

Yüksel Sezgin

December 31, 2011

See related: Human Rights

The Truths Behind the Myth of Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman is an American heroine, but her life story is shrouded in myth and exaggeration. Thanks to the work of Maxwell faculty members and students, the genuine contributions of Tubman’s life are coming to light.

June 23, 2008

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