Princeton University

Specialization: American Politics; Institutions; Law and Courts; Judicial Politics; Federal Courts; Statistics; Formal Theory

Jonathan Kastellec studies American politics, with a focus on judicial politics. His current research projects include studying the intersection of collegiality and hierarchy on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, using classification trees to visualize legal doctrine, and studying the effect on public opinion on Supreme Court confirmation politics. His research has appeared in the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies,and Perspectives on Politics.