Cornell W. Clayton and Richard Elgar

Cornell W. Clayton is the Claudius O. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Washington State University, and has been the director of the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service since 2008.

Clayton earned his D.Phil. in politics from Oxford University in 1990 and joined the WSU faculty in 1992. His research focuses on American political institutions, law, and judicial politics, and he is currently working on a book entitled, The Supreme Court and the Political Regime, to be published by the University of Chicago Press.

He is the author numerous journal articles and has given political science presentations all over the world.

Co-authored Books:
The Supreme Court and the Political Regime
Washington State Government and Politics
Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutional Approaches
The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations
Government Lawyers: The Federal Legal Bureaucracy and Presidential Politics
The Politics of Justice: The Attorney General and the Making of Legal Policy

Journals:
Current editor (with Amy Mazur) of Political Research Quarterly
Past editor, Law and Courts
Richard Elgar is the assistant director at the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Washington State University. This is his first book.