Terri Peretti
Position: Associate Professor
Office: 236 Arts & Sciences
Phone: 408-554-4919
E-mail: tperetti@scu.edu
Fall Quarter Office Hours: By appointment only
Education: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1990; M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1982; B.G.S. University of Kansas, 1978
Curriculum Vita: Terri Peretti (updated 10/2008)
Research Guides to Dr. Peretti's Classes:
Terri Peretti teaches constitutional law, judicial politics, and American Politics. Her current research focuses on judicial review, the Supreme Court, and the judicial selection process. She is the author of In Defense of a Political Court (Princeton University Press 1999) and a number of law review articles on judicial selection and judicial independence. Dr. Peretti serves as the Pre-Law Advisor.
Courses
- Introduction to U.S. Politics
- The Constitution and Equality
- Law and Politics in the U.S.
- Theories of Judicial Review
Recent publications
“Where Have All the Politicians Gone? Recruiting for the Modern Supreme Court,” Judicature 91 (November-December 2007): 112-22.
In Defense of a Political Court (Princeton University Press, 1999).
“Does Judicial Independence Exist? The Lessons of Social Science Research,” in Stephen B. Burbank and Barry Friedman, eds., Judicial Independence at the Crossroads (Sage Publications, 2002).
“A Normative Appraisal of Social Scientific Knowledge Regarding Judicial Independence,” 64 Ohio State Law Journal 349 (2003).
“An Empirical Analysis of Alexander Bickel’s The Least Dangerous Branch,” in Kenneth Ward and Cecilia Castillo, eds., Alexander Bickel, the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty and Contemporary Constitutional Theory (SUNY Press, 2005).
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