Terri Peretti
Terri Peretti earned her Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Berkeley. She taught constitutional law, judicial politics, and American Politics, receiving the top award for teaching excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences in 2005. Her research has focused on the U.S. Supreme Court, election law, judicial selection, and the Fourteenth Amendment, resulting in two solo-authored books and over twenty articles and book chapters. Dr. Peretti’s 2020 book, Partisan Supremacy: How the GOP Enlisted Courts to Rig America’s Election Rules, earned a national award—Best Book in the Field of Law and Courts—from the American Political Science Association. She also served as Interim Dean (2019/20), Acting Dean (2014/15), and Associate Dean (2009-2012) in SCU’s College of Arts and Sciences.
- “Has the Roberts Court Helped Donald Trump and the GOP Rig Elections and Erode American Democracy?” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 713 (2024): 141-164.
- Partisan Supremacy: How the GOP Enlisted Courts to Rig America’s Election Rules (University Press of Kansas, 2020).
- “Judicial Partisanship in Voter Identification Litigation,” Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy 15 (2016): 214-231.
- “Constructing the State Action Doctrine, 1940-1990,” Law & Social Inquiry 35 (2010): 273-310.
- In Defense of a Political Court (Princeton University Press, 1999)