Christina L. Boyd

Christina L. Boyd is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Thomas P. and M. Jean Lauth Public Affairs Professor at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on judicial politics, American politics, and women and politics and has been published in Oxford University Press, Stanford University Press, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Law and Society Review, among other scholarly outlets.

How Trump’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging

In new research, Elise Blasingame, Christina Boyd, Roberto Carlos, and Joseph Ornstein explore how the Trump administration used a quota policy for immigration judges working under the Department of Justice's purview to influence how they adjudicated cases. The authors find the policy successfully nudged more judges to rule against immigrant plaintiffs.

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