Publications: Drolc, Cody A., Alison Higgins Merrill, and Jessica A. Schoenherr. Conditionally Accepted. ``Breaking the Legal Stalemate: How Membership Changes and Position Uncertainty Shift Attorney Strategies at the U.S. Supreme Court.'' Journal of Politics.
Merrill, Alison Higgins, Nicholas D. Conway, and Joseph Daniel Ura. 2017. ``Confidence and Constraint: Public Opinion, Judicial Independence and the Roberts Court.'' Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 54(1).
Ura, Joseph Daniel and Alison Higgins Merrill. 2017. ``The Supreme Court and Public Opinion.'' In The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior, eds. Lee Epstein and Stefanie A. Lindquist. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Works in Progress:
"Barret Not Dobbs: What Broke Diffuse Support for the Supreme Court?'' (with Kathryn M. Haglin, Soren Jordan, and Joseph Daniel Ura)
''The Changing Value of Experience and Credentials when Appearing Before the Supreme Court'' (with Jessica A. Schoenherr)
"Know Thy Neighbor: Ideological Distance and Strategic Decision-Making on the U.S. Supreme Court." (with Samantha Zuhlke)
``SCOTUS Interruptus: Speech Patterns and Opinion Authorship of Female U.S. Supreme Court Justices.'' (with Nicholas D. Conway)
``Dynamic Issue Attention and Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court.''
``Competing Public Agency: Public Opinion, Separation of Powers, and Judicial Review." (with Joseph Daniel Ura and Nicholas D. Conway)
``Signals or Noise? The Influence of Judicial Ideology and Public Opinion on Supreme Court Reversals and Affirmances." (with Joseph Daniel Ura)