Dr. Mark J. Richards

Contact
Associate Professor, Chair, and Pre-law Advisor
Department of Political Science
1106 AuSable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
616 331-3457
richardm@gvsu.edu
faculty website

Education
University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin)
Ph.D. Political Science, July 1999
M.A. Political Science, 1996

University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
M.S. Political Science, 1995

University of Wisconsin Law School (Madison, Wisconsin)
One year completed, 1992

University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin)
B.S. Economics and Political Science, 1991

Courses
Constitutional Law I: Federalism and Separation of Powers
Constitutional Law II: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Capstone: Freedom of Expression

Select Publications
Mark J. Richards and Herbert M. Kritzer. 2002. "Jurisprudential Regimes in Supreme Court Decision Making." American Political Science Review 96 (June): 305-321.

Herbert M. Kritzer and Mark J. Richards. 2003. "Jurisprudential Regimes and Supreme Court Decision Making: The Lemon Regime and Establishment Clause Cases." Law & Society Review 37 (December): 827-840.

Herbert M. Kritzer and Mark J. Richards. 2005. "The Role of Law in the Supreme Court's Search and Seizure Jurisprudence." American Politics Research 33 (January): 33.

Mark J. Richards, Herbert M. Kritzer and Joseph L. Smith. 2006. "Does Chevron Matter?" Law & Policy 28 (October): 444-469.

Select Awards
2006. Pew Teaching Excellence Award. Grand Valley State University.

Select Current Research
I am currently working on book on Supreme Court decision making on freedom of expression cases, covering the Warren, Burger and Rehnquist courts.

Biography
I joined GVSU's Political Science Department in 1999 after completing my Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. My primary research interests are Supreme Court decision making and freedom of expression. I started as the department chair in summer 2006.