Scott Lemieux received his BA and MA from McGill Univeristy and his PhD from the University of Washington. His research interests include public law, constitutional law, comparative law and institutions, and American politics. He has written or co-written articles for Polity, Studies in Law, Politics and Sociey, the Journal of Supreme Court History, the Maryland Law Review, and the American Journal of Comparative Law, and also contributes regularly to the American Prospect and the Guardian Online. He is working on a book manuscript about the backlash generated by litigation.