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Dr. John Szmer is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, affiliated with the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences (CHESS). He holds roles as Honors Faculty (term ending June 2028), Mock Trial team advisor, core faculty in the Public Policy Ph.D. program, and Women’s and Gender Studies affiliate. His research focuses on judicial decision-making processes, diversity impacts, and institutional dynamics in courts such as the U.S. Supreme Court, Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Research interests include judicial efficiency, judicial selection, gender/race influences, and attorney expertise. He has published in journals like American Political Science Review and Law & Society Review, and co-authored books such as The View from the Bench and Chambers (UVA Press) and Courting Diversity (Cambridge University Press, under contract). Recent work involves a National Science Foundation grant studying gender diversity’s impact on U.S. Courts of Appeals decisions.
Teaching includes judicial politics, constitutional law, quantitative methods, and gender and the law. His collaborative projects emphasize mixed-methods approaches combining interviews and statistical analyses.
