Neal Tate is hosting an invitational “Conference on Designing and Executing Social Science Research on the (Supreme?) Courts of Latin America” on Friday September 19.  The purpose of the conference is to advise Tate and his graduate assistants on the conduct of their National Science Foundation grant “Political Turbulence and Supreme Court Politics in Democratizing Latin American Countries” and to discuss ideas and suggestions for the future of judicial politics research in Latin America. 
 
Invited conference participants include:
Rebecca Bill Chavez, United States Naval Academy
Javier Couso, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
Jodi Finkel, Loyola Marymount University
Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester
Lisa Hilbink, University of Minnesota
Julio Rios-Figueroa, CIDE, Mexico City
Druscilla Scribner, University of Wisconsin-Osh Kosh
Jeff Staton, Emory University
Matthew M. Taylor, Universidade de São Paulo
Bruce Wilson, University of Central Florida
 
Vanderbilt participants include Susan Berk-Seligson (Associate Professor of Latin American Studies), and Political Science graduate students Fernanda Boidi, Juan Carlos Donoso, Vivian Schwarz-Blum, and Alejandro Diaz-Dominguez.