Issac Unah’s book, The Supreme Court in American Politics (Palgrave Macmillan Press), has been praised by scholars around the country for being “rich in historical detail,” and for “laying a solid and sophisticated groundwork for [graduate and undergraduate students’] understanding.”
Unah is an associate professor of political science at UNC.
In the book, Unah analyzes several issues, including how the Supreme Court works, what key institutional norms have developed over time to make it work efficiently, and how popular support for the Supreme Court changes over time.
He takes the historical and international context of the Supreme Court, a center of power as well as controversy, to evaluate its influence and how it has changed over time as its justices patrol the boundaries of the U.S. Constitution.
Unah’s research and teaching interests focus on judicial institutions and politics and their collective influence on public policy and bureaucratic behavior.
His research has been featured in various journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Law & Policy, Business and Politics, and the University of South Carolina Law Review. His book, The Courts of International Trade: Judicial Specialization, Expertise, and Bureaucratic Policymaking, was published in 1998. It analyzes the role of specialized courts in U.S. trade policy implementation.
