About
About
Alicia Uribe-McGuire is a Lecturer at the University of Illinois College of Law. Her research interests focus on American Political Institutions with a particular emphasis on the United States Judiciary. Her research focuses on the intersection between the judiciary and other political actors or bodies, and she utilizes both formal and quantitative methods in her work.
Education
PhD Washington University in St. Louis
AM Washington University in St. Louis
AB University of California, Davis
Areas of Expertise
American Institutions
Judicial Politics
Judicial Appointments
Computational Modeling
Publications
Hager, L., & Uribe-McGuire, A. (2024). Judicial Guardians: Court-Curbing Bills, the Supreme Court, and Judicial Review. Journal of Law and Courts, 12(2), 303-324. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlc.2023.22
Uribe-McGuire, A. (2023). Binders Full of Judges: A Model of the Interdependency of Appointments to the United States Federal Judiciary. Journal of Law and Courts, 11(2), 329-349. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlc.2022.9
Nelson, M. J., & Uribe-McGuire, A. (2017). Opportunity and Overrides: The Effect of Institutional Public Support on Congressional Overrides of Supreme Court Decisions. Political Research Quarterly, 70(3), 632-643. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912917709353
Schnakenberg, K. E., Turner, I. R., & Uribe-McGuire, A. (2017). Allies or commitment devices? A model of appointments to the Federal Reserve. Economics and Politics, 29(2), 118-132. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.12089
Uribe, A., Spriggs, J. F., & Hansford, T. G. (2014). The Influence of Congressional Preferences on Legislative Overrides of Supreme Court Decisions. Law and Society Review, 48(4), 921-945. https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12109
Courses
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