Daniel R. Pinello was educated at Williams College (BA), New York University (JD), and Yale University (PhD, political science). His scholarship includes Gay Rights and American Law (2003), The Impact of Judicial-Selection Method on State-Supreme-Court Policy: Innovation, Reaction, and Atrophy (1995), and 'Linking Party to Judicial Ideology in American Courts: A Meta-Analysis', Justice System Journal (1999). He is a professor of government at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York and has also taught at Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of New Orleans, and Yale University.
1. Introduction
2. Overview and background
3. Massachusetts
4. California
5. Oregon
6. New York
7. Conclusion.
