Call him William Penn cause this founding father is a quaker
Robin Taboni
@robintaboni.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UT Austin | Judicial politics, American political institutions, Formal theory | Blessed to support the Bills, no longer cursed to care about the Sabres | robintaboni.com
Eitan Sapiro-Gheiler and I have posted a new working paper, "Does Party Affiliation Trump Appointing President? An Empirical Analysis of Trump’s Appellate Judges." jkastellec.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...
This means that we can now capture actions taken by individual justices such as stay denials and administrative stays.
Shadow docket data update! Version 3.0 of the database is out. The data is update through the end of March 2026. We've also expanded our data collection effort. For 2003 to present, the database now includes all applications, not just ones that the full Court rules on.
Shadow docket data update! Version 3.0 of the database is out. The data is update through the end of March 2026. We've also expanded our data collection effort. For 2003 to present, the database now includes all applications, not just ones that the full Court rules on.
Since it's a already a shadow docket filled day, a visual representation of how different the Trump administration is in its strategy of seeking emergency relief. From the Shadow Docket Database with @jkastellec.bsky.social
Since it's a already a shadow docket filled day, a visual representation of how different the Trump administration is in its strategy of seeking emergency relief. From the Shadow Docket Database with @jkastellec.bsky.social
Trying out a beta version of a visualizer of the Shadow Docket Database: robinataboni.github.io/shadow-docke... Would love feedback on what people would like to see!
Shadow Docket Database — Trend Explorer
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✨Update ✨: New name, same feelings about Buffalo. I'm Robin now, and yes I picked it because of the bird.
✨Update ✨: New name, same feelings about Buffalo. I'm Robin now, and yes I picked it because of the bird.
From our FirstView articles: The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals by @anthonytaboni.bsky.social . doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Happy to share that my paper, "Systematic Corruption," has been accepted for publication in the Columbia Law Review! Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
![Abstract for the paper, "Systematic Corruption," to be published in the Columbia Law Review.
The American political economy faces a familiar but newly dangerous threat: systematic corruption. Unlike garden-variety graft, “systematic corruption” refers to the manipulation of economic privileges by politicians to secure political loyalty and thereby entrench their political power. This practice defined much of the early American republic, when state actors routinely handed out corporate charters and other valuable privileges based on partisan allegiances. But today’s version is different—and much more alarming. Instead of being dispersed across many local, state, and federal actors, it is concentrated in the hands of an increasingly powerful, centralized, and unrestrained federal executive. If left unchecked, this fusion of economic and political power threatens to both hobble the American economy and drive the nation toward autocracy.
To chart a way out of this crisis, this Essay recovers the lessons of the legal reforms that earlier generations devised to curb systematic corruption. It focuses on reforms in four key areas during the nineteenth century: corporate chartering, government personnel, government contracts, and public debt. I argue that successful reforms generally shared three key features: constraints on the discretion of those making decisions, insulation of the decision-making process from partisan control, and countervailing power structures. Constraints on discretion helped to stop officials from dispensing economic privileges based on political favoritism, insulation from partisan control served a similar purpose by altering the incentive structure for decision-makers, and countervailing power structures created ways for other actors to counteract ambition with ambition.
Applying these insights to the current political moment, [. . .]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:frfua6pa4zqhnotidbcqqlai/bafkreiddfwmyudaou4m2jjvw4b73ieheji5cxdxf4gbw62wlmznakg22gy)
Updated WP with the social-medialess Alina Dunlap! What influence do lobbyists have on their clients' decisions? Using data on lobbying in the California legislature by municipalities, we examine how lobbyists structure the actions of their clients. 1/🧵 anthonytaboni.com/wp-content/u...
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
Reviewing fast or slow: A theory of summary reversal in the judicial hierarchy by Alexander V. Hirsch, Jonathan P. Kastellec, and Anthony R. Taboni is now available in Early View. @jkastellec.bsky.social @anthonytaboni.bsky.social ajps.org/2026/01/09/r...
The Shadow Docket Database (created with @jkastellec.bsky.social) has entered its v2 era. With the conclusion of the 2024 term, we've updated both the data set and our paper. Both can be accessed at shadowdocketdata.com. A couple of quick highlights 1/🧵
Supreme Court Shadow Docket Database
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The Shadow Docket Database (created with @jkastellec.bsky.social) has entered its v2 era. With the conclusion of the 2024 term, we've updated both the data set and our paper. Both can be accessed at shadowdocketdata.com. A couple of quick highlights 1/🧵
Supreme Court Shadow Docket Database
shadowdocketdata.com
The first version of this project started the summer after my first year of grad school, so it's very exciting to see it out in print
John Kastellec@jkastellec.bsky.social · 8mo agoMy paper, "Reviewing Fast or Slow: A Theory of Summary Reversal in the Judicial Hierarchy," co-authored with Alex Hirsch and @anthonytaboni.bsky.social , is now available online at @ajpseditor.bsky.social . onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
The first version of this project started the summer after my first year of grad school, so it's very exciting to see it out in print
John Kastellec@jkastellec.bsky.social · 8mo agoMy paper, "Reviewing Fast or Slow: A Theory of Summary Reversal in the Judicial Hierarchy," co-authored with Alex Hirsch and @anthonytaboni.bsky.social , is now available online at @ajpseditor.bsky.social . onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals - https://cup.org/42XsrF0 - @anthonytaboni.bsky.social #FirstView
The strongest regional accent I've encountered in Austin so far has come from the blue jays outside my office
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
Jeff Staton presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Charles Cameron 🏆👏 Congratulations to Dr. Cameron on this well-deserved honor and thank you for your extraordinary contributions to our field!
The discussants at APSA this year look especially intimidating
