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Beyond Initial Adoption: Modeling Sustained Relative Compliance to Supreme Court Precedent in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 1980-2024

I ask what factors condition the timing with which U.S. Court of Appeals implement new Supreme Court precedent. While prior work has demonstrated compliance as static, I introduce Sustained Relative Compliance (SRC) as a dynamic measure that identifies the first month at which circuits cite an overruling precedent more than the one it displaces, arguing that compliance is a gradual process conditioned by ideology and case salience. To test this framework, I use a Cox proportional hazards model that captures all circuits monthly risk of acheiving SRC for old-new precedent pairs from 1980-2024 for 180 months.

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PSC 408 Basic Statistics for Social Science (Lab Instructor)

Undergraduate lab, SUNY Buffalo, Department of Political Science, 2025

This undergraduate course served as an introduction to statistics, examining descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, bivariate statistics, and regression analysis. As the instructor of the lab portion of this course, I crafted lecture material and R code, graded exams, and held two recitations every week.

PSC 408 Basic Statistics for Social Science (Lab Instructor)

Undergraduate lab, SUNY Buffalo, Department of Political Science, 2026

This undergraduate course served as an introduction to statistics, examining descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, bivariate statistics, and regression analysis. As the instructor of the lab portion of this course, I crafted lecture material and Excel code, graded exams, and held weekly office hours.