“The Amicus Machine,” by Professor Allison Orr Larsen and Professor Neal Devins, Wins Eisenberg Prize
![Professor Larsen and Professor Devins, AAAL Fall 2019 Meeting](../2020/imagescontent/larendevins2019.jpg)
The research was the subject of a 2016 New York Times story by Adam Liptak, “Study Shows How Much Work It Takes to be Supreme Court’s Friend,” and also was cited in an analysis by Anthony J. Franze and R. Reeves Anderson of the Supreme Court’s amicus curiae docket for the 2015-16 term published in the National Law Journal.
Professor Larsen is a scholar of constitutional law and legal institutions, with a focus on how information dynamics affect both. Her work has been published in the nation’s leading law journals, and her latest article titled “Virtual Briefing at the Supreme Court” (with Jeffrey L. Fisher) will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Cornell Law Review (read it on SSRN).
Professor Devins is director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary and has explored a wide range of issues in constitutional law and politics in his scholarship. He is the author of numerous articles and 11 books, including, most recently, The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court (Oxford University Press 2019) (with Lawrence Baum).
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