Nancy Maveety

Nancy Maveety is Professor of Political Science at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she teaches courses in constitutional law, judicial decision-making, and her latest special topics class “Booze, Drugs and the Courts.” She is the author of" Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Strategist on the Supreme Court" and "Glass and Gavel: the U.S. Supreme Court and Alcohol," as well as many scholarly works on the U.S. Supreme Court and American judicial politics, most recently Picking Judges (2016), a study of federal judicial selection politics styled as a presidential briefing book. She has also written an academic satire novel set in the Crescent City, The Stagnant Pool: Scholars Below Sea Level (2000).