#  Maya Sen 

 



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Welcome!

I am a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and an affiliated faculty member at Harvard Law School. My research interests include law, political economy, race and ethnic politics, and statistical methods. My research has been published in journals such as the *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*, the *American Political Science Review*, the *American Journal of Political Science*, and *The Journal of Politics*, and has been covered by the *New York Times*, the *Washington Post*, *The Economist*, National Public Radio, and other outlets.

I am currently working on a book on the relationship between Supreme Court ruligns and public opinion. My previous book, [The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/judicial-tug-of-war/668C79835CDA6839FB21303F10D98C23) (with Adam Bonica), is available from [Cambridge University Press](https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations). My first book, [Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics](https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11282.html), is available from [Princeton University Press](https://press.princeton.edu/) and won the 2019 William H. Riker Book Award for best book published in political economy.

You can access my Google Scholar page [here](http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SXdm-MsAAAAJ&hl=en). A full description of my publications and working papers is [here](/publications). My CV is [here](https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/content/vita). I explain some of my research interests in this [video](https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/maya_sen_hdsi.mp4).



 

##  Current Working Papers 

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 [### The Endgame of Court-Packing

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