Andrew David Martin

Andrew Martin is Chancellor and Professor of Political Science and Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Chancellor Martin’s areas of expertise include judicial politics, quantitative political methodology, empirical legal studies, and applied statistics, with attention paid specifically to U.S. Supreme Court decision-making.

Along with numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, Martin is the author of “An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research,” which he co-authored with Lee Epstein, the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor at Washington University. Throughout his career, Martin has received research funding from many organizations, including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.

In addition to his many publications, Martin’s most notable scholarly achievements include the Martin-Quinn scores, where he and collaborator Kevin Quinn programmatically identified the ideologies of U.S. Supreme Court justices, as well as his contribution to the Supreme Court Database, which documents and codes every vote put forth by a U.S. Supreme Court justice in all argued cases from 1937 to the present.