Cornell W. Clayton Washington State University, USA

Cornell W. Clayton is Professor of Political Science at Washington State University. He received his D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University and his research and teaching focus on judicial politics and political institutions. He is currently working on a book entitled The Supreme Court and the Political Regime: How Politics Structures Judicial Power (contracted with University of Chicago Press) (with Mitch Pickerill). His previous books include Washington State Government and Politics (Washington State University Press, 2004) (editor, with Lance T. Leloup and Nicholas P. Lovrich); Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutional Approaches (University of Chicago, 1999) (editor, with Howard Gillman); The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations (University Press of Kansas, 1999) (editor, with Howard Gillman); Government Lawyers: The Federal Legal Bureaucracy and Presidential Politics (University of Kansas, 1995) (editor); and The Politics of Justice: The Attorney General and the Making of Legal Policy (M.E. Sharpe, 1992). He has published articles in Perspectives on Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Review of Politics, Polity, Publius, Georgetown Law Journal, Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems, Journal of Law and Politics, and Comparative Law Review. He has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships, and he has lectured around the world, including visiting lectureships in England, Italy, Denmark, Slovenia, Ukraine, Albania, and Turkey.