PROFESSOR BRENT NEWTON AUTHORS BLOG POST ABOUT EMPIRICAL STUDY OF U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES' CITATION TO LAW REVIEW ARTICLES ON SCOTUSBLOG.COM
May 2025 — Professor Brent Newton recently authored a blog post, “An unexpected shift to the right: the conservative justices’ recent embrace of law review articles,” about his empirical study of U.S. Supreme Court justices’ citation to law review articles on SCOTUSBlog.com.
Newton’s study was an update to a prior study that he conducted in 2012. His co-author of the study was recent Penn State Dickinson Law graduate May Hennessy.
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In 2009, Practitioner in Residence Brent E. Newton was appointed as deputy director of the United States Sentencing Commission, a position he held until January 2019. Professor Newton also practices civil, criminal, and immigration law in Maryland and Texas. In addition, he has been a lecturer, adjunct professor, or visiting professor at several other law schools, including American and Georgetown Universities, the University of Houston Law Center, and Seoul National University in South Korea. Professor Newton has been an elected member of the American Law Institute since 2010.