Accomplishments: Department of Political Science
Lizbeth Arias (International Programs) has been awarded a Diversity and Diplomacy Fellowship through Humanity in Action, a collaborative transatlantic program in international relations and global diversity. A graduate student in the political science department, she was one of 24 fellows chosen from a 10-nation applicant pool. The fellowship,…
UNLV Collegiate DECA Members recently received several awards at the Utah Collegiate DECA's annual Fall Leadership Conference (FLC). Collegiate DECA is a career and technical student organization formerly known as the Distributive Education Clubs of America.
Among those receiving awards at the FLC were:
Daniel Dinev (Accounting/Global…
Rebecca Gill and Kenneth Retzl (both Political Science) had a full-length research article, "The JPE Commission," published in the July/August issue of Judicature.The article argues that performance evaluation commissions may be relying too heavily on attorney surveys when they allocate negative judicial retention recommendations. Gill was the…
Rebecca Gill (Political Science) has been awarded a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study implicit bias in the evaluation of public officials. The project hypothesizes that implicit bias could shape the evaluation of judges in judicial performance evaluations. Implicit bias mobilizes people's images of who should be…
David Fott (Political Science) recently had a book published by Cornell University Press. The press published his translations of Cicero's "On the Republic" and "On the Laws."
Fatma Marouf and Michael Kagan (Law School) have been named Bellow Scholars for 2013 by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in honor of empirical research projects that promise to improve access to justice for underserved communities. The awards were announced at the AALS annual conference in New Orleans in January. They were honored…
Rebecca Gill (Political Science) and her co-authors, Reginald Sheehan and Kirk Randazzo, have just published their new book, Judicialization of Politics: The Interplay of Institutional Structure, Legal Doctrine, and Politics on the High Court of Australia.Their findings suggest that high court judges can be constrained by institutional…