Professor Don Songer
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
318 Gambrell Hall
Email: dsonger@sc.edu
Phone: 803-777-6801
Don Songer is the Olin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. He has written extensively on the United States Courts of Appeals, including co-authoring the University of Michigan Press book Continuity and Change on the United States Courts of Appeals. He has also written widely on comparative courts including the recent book, The Transformation of the Supreme Court of Canada: An Empirical Examination, in published by the University of Toronto Press. He is the Principal Investigator for the United States Courts of Appeals Database and is one of the Principal Investigators for the High Courts Judicial Database of the decisions of the top courts of ten common law countries. Both databases were created with a series of grants from the National Science Foundation. His scholarship has appeared in articles in a number of journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, The Canadian Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, and Law and Society Review.