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LAPA’s new o ces enables the program to welcome visitors-in-residence. This year, LAPA is hosting two visitors representing two ends of the spectrum of academic experience. Professor Fred Amon is an internationally known scholar, a long-time law professor, and former law school dean for 12 years, whose experience includes holding the distinguished Fulbright chair at University of Trento, Italy, resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Conference in Ballagio and twice a visiting fellow at Wolfson College Cambridge. He was in the rst class of LAPA Fellows in 2002- 03 and visited again in 2005-06. Dr. Logan Strother received his doctorate in political science in May, 2017 and comes to LAPA as a Post-Doctoral visitor at Princeton. He has already published several signi cant articles, received several fellowship awards, and been honored for his work including the 2015 Roscoe Martin Dissertation Research Award. LAPA interviewed both about their research and their expectations of LAPA.
VISITORS WELCOME
FRED AMON
What brings you (back) to LAPA this year? (and what are you working on while here)?
I am on a research leave this semester from Indiana University, Maurer School of Law in Bloomington. I am working on two articles that have originated as conference papers: one is on the Freedom
of Information Act and its potential extension, selectively, to the private sector. It will draw upon my previous work on privatization generally, and the democracy and legal implications of outsourcing in particular. The second project involves the Globalization of Administrative Law. In 1992 I published a book called Administrative Law in a Global Era. It focused primarily on the U. S. This article will give me a chance not only to revisit some of those themes today but to do so in a comparative way, by looking at developments in administrative law in the United States and France.
Given your distinguished experience at law schools both as a Dean and faculty member, what do you see as the value of a LAPA-type program at a university?
Law Schools of necessity play multiple roles. They are professional schools with a responsibility to prepare students for the practice of law. This requires an emphasis on skills, on advocacy and a deep sense of the ethics of the legal profession... Continued on Page 10
LOGAN STROTHER
Tell us about yourself and your background.
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I’m a political scientist by training; I study American law and politics. I completed my Ph.D. earlier this year at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public A airs. I spent the last two years at the Truman School University of Missouri, where I
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was a Pre-doctoral Visiting Scholar. To date, my research has been published (or is forthcoming) in the Journal of Law and Courts, Political Communication, Policy Studies Journal, and the Du Bois Review, among others. My work has been featured in a number of popular press outlets, including The Washington Post, NPR, Vox, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and The Miami Herald.
Tell us about your dissertation and your future research agenda.
My scholarship is motivated by two basic questions. First, how much in uence do courts, especially the United States Supreme Court, really have in American politics? Second, how exactly do courts in uence politics and policymaking? In political science, the prevailing view is that courts are a “hollow hope” for people seeking political or social change because court decisions don’t have much e ect in the real world. In an ongoing book project (based on my dissertation)... Continued on Page 10