Black, Ryan
Ryan C. Black is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. He joined MSU in 2009 after receiving his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. He studies American political institutions, with a focus on the judiciary.
Subfields
American PoliticsResearch Specializations
Political Institutions, Judicial PoliticsRecent Publications
- Black, Ryan C. and Ryan J. Owens. Forthcoming 2010. “Analyzing the Reliability of Supreme Court Justices' Agenda Setting Records.” Justice System Journal 31(1).
- Johnson, Timothy R., Ryan C. Black, Jerry Goldman, and Sarah A. Treul. Forthcoming 2009. “Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Do Justices Tip Their Hands With Their Questions at Oral Arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court?" Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 29.
- Johnson, Timothy R., Ryan C. Black, and Justin Wedeking. Forthcoming 2009. “Pardon the Interruption: An Empirical Analysis of Supreme Court Justices' Behavior During Oral Arguments.” Loyola Law Review.
- Black, Ryan C. and Ryan J. Owens. 2009. “Agenda Setting in the Supreme Court: The Collision of Policy and Jurisprudence." Journal of Politics 71(3): 1062-1075 (July).
- Johnson, Timothy R., Ryan C. Black, and Eve M. Ringsmuth. 2009. “Hear Me Roar: What Provokes Supreme Court Justices to Dissent from the Bench?” Minnesota Law Review 93 (5): 1560-1581 (May).
- Black, Ryan C. and James F. Spriggs, II. 2008. “An Empirical Analysis of the Length of U.S. Supreme Court Opinions.” Houston Law Review 45(3): 621-683 (Fall).
- Black, Ryan C. and Lee Epstein. 2007. “(Re-)Setting the Scholarly Agenda on Transjudicial Communication." Law & Social Inquiry 32 (3): 791-807 (September).
- Black, Ryan C., Anthony J. Madonna, Ryan J. Owens, and Michael S. Lynch. 2007. “Adding Recess Appointments to the President's ‘Tool Chest’ of Unilateral Powers.” Political Research Quarterly 60 (4): 645-654 (December).
- Black, Ryan and Lee Epstein. 2005. “Recusals and the ‘Problem’ of an Equally Divided Supreme Court.” Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 7 (1): 75-99 (Spring).
