Tom S. Clark

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NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States of America
OccupationPolitician

Tom S. Clark is a political scientist who specializes in American law and courts.[1] He has made contributions to the study of judicial independence, decision-making at the U.S. Supreme Court, judicial elections, and policing and law enforcement.

He is currently the Charles Howard Candler Professor at Emory University.[2] He has also held visiting appointments at Stanford University,[3] Princeton University,[4] and the Institute for Advanced Study at the Toulouse School of Economics.

Early life and education

Clark was born and raised in New Jersey. He attended college at Rutgers University, earning a degree in political science. He then attended Princeton University and earned his Ph.D. in Politics, where he was selected as a Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow.[1]

Publications

Clark is currently the editor of the Journal of Law and Courts[5] and previously served as a field editor for the Journal of Politics.[6]

Clark's first book, The Limits of Judicial Independence, was published by Cambridge University Press in the Series in the Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions[7] and won the 2011 Riker Prize for the best book from the Political Economy section of the American Political Science Association. His second book, The Supreme Court was also published in the same series.[8] He co-authored a textbook on the subject of judicial decision-making, published by West Academic.[9]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Tom S. Clark". Tom S. Clark.
  2. "Tom Clark". polisci.emory.edu.
  3. "People | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". casbs.stanford.edu.
  4. "Former Fellows & Visiting Scholars". Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP).
  5. "Journal of Law and Courts". Cambridge Core.
  6. "The Journal of Politics | Vol 85, No 2".
  7. Clark, Tom S. (June 1, 2010). "The Limits of Judicial Independence". Cambridge University Press – via Cambridge University Press.
  8. https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/american-government-politics-and-policy/supreme-court-analytic-history-constitutional-decision-making?format=PB
  9. "Friedman, Lemos, Martin, Clark, Larsen, and Harvey's Judicial Decision-Making: A Coursebook - 9781642422573 - West Academic". faculty.westacademic.com.

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