Jeffrey A. Segal (USA), Professor of political science, Stony Brook University

Jeffrey Segal is professor of political science at Stony Brook University. His articles include "Predicting Supreme Court Cases Probabilistically: The Search and Seizure Cases, 1962-1981 (American Political Science Review, 1984), which won the Wadsworth Award (2002), for book or article, ten years or older, that has had a lasting influence on the field of law and courts. His books include Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court (Cambridge University Press, 1999, with Harold Spaeth), which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award of the American Political Science Association for best book in law and judicial politics. His most recent book, again with Spaeth, is The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited (Cambridge University Press, 2002).