Amy Semet
JD, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Professor
Department of Political Science
College of Arts & Sciences
Research Interests
Public law; judicial politics; bureaucratic politics; constitutional law; quantitative methods
About
Amy Semet is an Associate Professor of Law and is affiliated with the University’s department of Political Science. Her research focuses on studying legal institutions from an empirical and statistical perspective. In particular, she has created several databases of administrative agency and court decisions so as to better understand how agencies and courts make decisions.
Education
- Columbia University, Ph.D.
- Harvard Law School, J.D. (cum laude)
- Dartmouth College, A.B. (summa cum laude)
Publications
- “Presidential Control and Immigration Detention” with Catherine Kim, Duke Law Journal 69:8 (May 2020) (invited symposium)
- “An Empirical Study of Political Control Over Immigration Adjudication” with Catherine Kim, Georgetown Law Journal 108:2 (February 2020)
- “An Empirical Examination of Agency Statutory Interpretation,” Minnesota Law Review 103:5 (April 2019)
- “Specialized Trial Courts in Patent Litigation: A Review of the Patent Pilot Program’s Impact on Appellate Reversal Rates at the Five-Year Mark,” Boston College Law Review 60:2 (February 2019)
- “Judicial Elections, Public Opinion, and Decisions on Lower Salience Issues” with Brandice Canes-Wrone and Tom Clark, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 15:4 (December 2018)
- “Political Decision Making at the National Labor Relations Board: An Empirical Examination of the Board’s Decisions through the Clinton and Bush Years,” Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 37:2 (Spring 2016)
- “Bush v. Gore in the American Mind: Reflections and Survey Results on the Tenth Anniversary of the Decision Ending the 2000 Election Controversy” with Nathaniel Persily and Stephen Ansolabehere, published in Election Reform in the United States: The State of Reform After Bush v. Gore, edited by R. Michael Alvarez and Bernard Grofman (Cambridge University Press 2014)