Charles R. Shipan is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Michigan, where he holds appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Ford School of Public Policy. Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan, Shipan served on the faculty at the University of Iowa, and he has also held positions as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, a visiting research fellow at Trinity College in Dublin, and a visiting fellow at the U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Designing Judicial Review, is the co-author of Deliberate Discretion?, and has written numerous articles and book chapters on political institutions and public policy. He is currently engaged in?an investigation of conflict between the president and Senate over Supreme Court nominations, ?a comparative study of antismoking laws in the United States and Switzerland, and an examination of the effects of bipartisanship on public policy. Shipan received a BA in chemistry from Carleton College and an MA and PhD in political science from Stanford University.
