Andrew D. Martin

Andrew D Martin (born July 25, 1972) is the current chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. He assumed the office on June 1, 2019.

Andrew D. Martin
15th Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
Assumed office
June 1, 2019
Preceded byMark S. Wrighton
Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts of the University of Michigan
In office
2014–2018
Preceded byTerrence J. McDonald
Succeeded byElizabeth Cole
Personal details
Born
Andrew D. Martin

(1972-07-25) July 25, 1972
Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.
Spouse(s)Stephanie S. Martin
EducationCollege of William and Mary (AB)
Washington University in St. Louis (PhD)
WebsiteOffice of the Chancellor

Biography

Martin was born in Lafayette, Indiana. He holds an A.B. in Mathematics and Government from The College of William and Mary and a PhD in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis.[1]

After earning his Ph.D in 1998 from WashU, Martin served as an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1998 to 2000.[1]In 2000, he became a professor of both law and political science in the law school and undergraduate school of Arts & Sciences at WashU. In 2006, he became the founding director for the Center for Empirical Research in the Law.[2] From 2007 to 2011, he served as Chair of Political Science Department at Washington University in St. Louis.[3] Next, he was the Vice Dean of the Washington University School of Law from 2012 to 2014.

In 2014, Martin left WashU for four years to serve as dean of the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and as a Professor of Political Science and Statistics at the University of Michigan.[4]

He currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife and their young daughter.

Center for Empirical Research in the Law

Martin is the founding director of Washington University’s Center for Empirical Research in the Law[2] (“CERL”). CERL was founded in 2006 under Dean Kent D. Syverud as a research unit within Washington University’s School of Law.[5][6] CERL provides empirical legal research methods support and training to law faculty and scholars at Washington University, and serves as a point of connection to scholars and faculty at many other universities.[5] At CERL, Martin has guided the technical efforts of several large-scale, nationally regarded data initiatives. CERL’s prominent projects and collaborations include The Discography[7] (conceived by WUSTL Law alum Loren Wells), The Judicial Elections Data Initiative,[8] and the NSF-sponsored Supreme Court Database[9] (see below).

Scholarship

Spanning judicial politics, quantitative political methodology, and empirical legal studies, Martin’s academic work has been published in a variety of different outlets, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Columbia Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and Northwestern University Law Review. Martin is the recipient of six grants from the National Science Foundation; his research has also been funded by the American Bar Association, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.

Martin has also made major contributions to statistical computing in the form of software. His most prominent contribution, with Kevin Quinn and Jong Hee Park, is the [R] package MCMCpack “which contains functions for Bayesian posterior simulation using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for a number of statistical models”.[1][10]

Martin-Quinn scores

One of Martin's most notable scholarly contributions is the Martin-Quinn scores.[11][12] In this effort he and collaborator Kevin Quinn sought to programmatically identify the ideologies of U.S. Supreme Court justices.[13]

Supreme Court database

The Supreme Court Database is an NSF-funded collaboration among six universities. The project’s inception occurred decades ago as Professor Harold J. Spaeth (Michigan State University) attempted to document and code every vote put forth by a U.S. Supreme Court justice in all argued cases over a five-decade span. Professor Spaeth's work has become an indispensable body of information for those who study supreme court politics. Professor Martin and CERL’s participation involved overseeing the expansion, including developing a comprehensive dataset as well as facilitating a backdating project that classified data from the founding of the court in 1790 through the current term.[14]

Awards and recognition

Martin is the recipient of a number of awards including the Washington University Outstanding Faculty Mentor award,[15] the Pi Sigma Alpha Award (for the best paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association),[16] the Harold Gosnell Prize (for the best work on political methodology presented at a political science conference),[17] and the Mancur Olson award (for the best dissertation in political economy).[18]

Contributions

Martin was mentioned in Ian Ayres’ 2007 book Super Crunchers, where Martin and Quinn created a statistical forecasting model of voting by United States Supreme Court justices which produced superior predictions of votes to predictions by legal experts.[19]

References
  1. Andrew D Martin : Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved on January, 29 2019.
  2. Center for Empirical Research in the Law : Home : Introduction. Cerl.wustl.edu. Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  3. Department of Political Science. Polisci.wustl.edu. Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  4. Rick Fitzgerald (17 April 2014). "Political scientist selected as next LSA dean". The University Record. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  5. Center for Empirical Research in the Law : Home : About the Center. Cerl.wustl.edu (July 1, 2006). Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  6. Washington University in St. Louis | Law School. Law.wustl.edu. Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  7. The Discography. The Discography. Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  8. The Judicial Elections Data Initiative. Jedi.wustl.edu. Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  9. The Supreme Court Database. Scdb.wustl.edu (August 30, 2011). Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  10. MCMCpack Archived 2005-12-24 at the Wayback Machine. Mcmcpack.wustl.edu. Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  11. Martin, Andrew D. and Kevin M. Quinn. 2002. “Dynamic Ideal Point Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo for the U.S. Supreme Court, 1953–1999,” 10 Political Analysis 134–153
  12. Martin-Quinn Scores : Description Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine. Mqscores.wustl.edu. Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  13. Jim Naureckas (28 June 2016). "Scalia's Lurch to the Left–and Other New York Times Pipe Dreams". Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  14. The Supreme Court Database. Scdb.wustl.edu. Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  15. And the 2010–2011 Outstanding Faculty Mentors are | graduate student senate Archived August 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Gss.wustl.edu (April 14, 2011). Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  16. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 19, 2008. Retrieved 2011-05-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  17. The Society for Political Methodology – About Archived June 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Polmeth.wustl.edu. Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  18. Awards, PE Section, APSA. Apsanet.org. Retrieved on November 12, 2011.
  19. Ruger, Theodore R., Pauline T. Kim, Andrew D. Martin and Kevin M. Quinn, 2004. “The Supreme Court Forecasting Project: Legal and Political Science Approaches to Predicting Supreme Court Decisionmaking,” 104 Columbia Law Review 1150–1210.
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