Joyce A. Baugh joined the Department of Political Science in 1988 and served as Chairperson from 1995-2001.  She teaches courses on constitutional law, civil liberties, judicial process, American government, and the Civil Rights Movement.  She is currently working on a book-length case study of Milliken v. Bradley, a landmark 1974 Supreme Court decision on northern school desegregation.

 

Education

Ph.D., Kent State University, 1989

M.A., Kent State University, 1983

B.A., Clemson University, 1981

 

Fields of Specialization

Public Law and Courts

Civil Rights and Liberties

Judicial Politics

Selected Publications

“The First-Term Performance of Chief Justice John Roberts” (with Thomas R. Hensley and Christopher E. Smith), Idaho Law Review Vol. 43, No. 3 (2007), pp. 625-642.
 

 Review of The Supreme Court Opinions of Clarence Thomas, 1991-2006:  A Conservative’s Perspective, Henry Mark Holzer, Jefferson, NC:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2007.  Appeared in The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 17, No. 7 (July 2007), pp. 562-568. 
 

“Equal Protection Jurisprudence” in Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties, edited by Otis H. Stephens, John M. Scheb, and Kara E. Stooksbury,  Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, Volume 1, pp. 323-331. 
 

“Bush v. Gore and Equal Protection:  A Unique Case?” in Final Arbiter:  The Consequences of Bush v. Gore for Law and Politics, edited by Christopher P. Banks, David B. Cohen, and John C. Green, SUNY Press, 2005, pp. 87-105.
 

“Selecting Supreme Court Justices:  A Dialogue,” in Focus on Law Studies:  Teaching About Law in the Liberal Arts, edited by John Paul Ryan, Division for Public Education of the American Bar Association, Volume XX, Number 2 (Spring 2005).  Also available online at:  http://www.abanet.org/publiced/focus/spring05.pdf

Review of Housing Segregation in Suburban America Since 1960:  Presidential and Judicial Politics, Charles M. Lamb, New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2005.  Appeared in The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 15, No. 6 (June 2005), pp. 478-482.
 

Supreme Court Justices in the Post-Bork Era:  Confirmation Politics and Judicial Performance, New York:  Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., (2002).

 The Real Clarence Thomas: Confirmation Veracity Meets Performance Reality (with Christopher E. Smith), New York:  Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2000.
 

The Changing Supreme Court:  Constitutional Rights and Liberties (with Thomas R. Hensley and Christopher E. Smith), West Publishing Company, 1997.