Allyson C. Yankle 700 College Place Campus Box 3 Williamsport, PA 17701

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1 EDUCATION Allyson C. Yankle 700 College Place Campus Box 3 Williamsport, PA Ph.D., Political Science August 2016, Storrs, CT Exam Fields: Public Law and Comparative Politics Graduate Certificates: College Instruction, Human Rights Dissertation: Just Like Any Other Court: The European Court of Human Rights as a Political Institution Committee: Virginia Hettinger, David Richards, Matthew Singer, David Yalof, Molly Land M.A., Political Science 2013 (conferred 2015), Storrs, CT B.A., Political Science, International Studies and History 2010 St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI ACADEMIC POSITIONS Visiting Assistant Professor, Williamsport, PA July 2016-current Lecturer September 2015-May 2016 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI TEACHING EXPERIENCE Visiting Assistant Professor U.S. Government and Politics; American Legal System; Law in America; Constitutional Law; Civil Rights and Liberties; Legal Research and Writing; Environmental Law and Politics; Public Policy in America Lecturer Law and Public Policy; Law, Culture, and Identity Instructor of Record Introduction to Comparative Politics; Judiciary in the Political Process; Politics of Crime and Justice University of Michigan

2 Teaching Assistant Politics of Crime and Justice; Law and Society; Constitutional Law; Introduction to Comparative Politics; Law and Popular Culture; American Political Thought and Ideology; Introduction to American Politics TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Teaching Interests: Research Interests: Judicial politics and behavior (American federal and state, comparative); judicial process; American and comparative constitutional law; law and society; critical legal theory; law and identity; legal studies; comparative political institutions; democratic attitudes; international human rights law Judicial decision-making; judicial elections; judicial ethics; legitimacy and democratic attitudes; comparative judicial institutions; human rights institutions PUBLICATIONS Under Review: Under Development: Justice Kennedy and Dignity: Median Justices and the Pursuit of Judicial Motivations on the U.S. Supreme Court with Daniel Tagliarina. The Contents of Scandal: Media Coverage of Judicial Ethics Violations with Virginia A. Hettinger. Judicial Indiscretion: Legitimacy and Accountability through Judicial Conduct Enforcement (manuscript) with Virginia A. Hettinger. Model Behavior: Considering Judicial Decision-Making at the European Court of Human Rights. Book Reviews: Review of An Introduction to Comparative Law Theory and Methods by Geoffrey Samuels. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing, In Law and Politics Book Review. WORKING PROJECTS European Court of Human Rights as a Political Institution: This manuscript project further develops and refines my dissertation research by investigating the influence of case issue and bench membership on the outcomes of decisions with case studies to understand why different human rights violations eliciting different actions from the Court and different reaction from the violating country. Judicial Ethics Violations (with Virginia Hettinger): This manuscript project investigates multiple dimensions of judicial ethics violations by state court judges, including the relationship between the ethics violation and judicial selection type, perception and coverage of judicial ethics violations by the media, and electoral implications of ethics violations.

3 Justice Kennedy and the Right to Dignity (with Daniel Tagliarina): This project looks at Justice Kennedy s use of the right to dignity throughout his tenure on the Supreme Court. We consider his evolving motivations behind the use of this right as well as how it has influenced external actors when presenting their arguments to the Supreme Court. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND SERVICE Conference Presentations: Model Behavior: Considering Judicial Decision-Making at the European Court of Human Rights. American Society for International Law Midyear Research Forum. St. Louis, MO. October The Contents of Scandal: Media Coverage of Judicial Ethics Violations, with Virginia Hettinger. American Political Science Meeting. San Francisco, CA. August Judicial Indiscretion: Factors Influencing the Punishment of Judicial Scandal, with Virginia Hettinger. Midwest Political Science Meeting. Chicago, IL. April Adjudicating Dignity: Judicial Motivations and Justice Kennedy s Jurisprudence of Dignity, with Daniel Tagliarina. Midwest Political Science Meeting. Chicago, IL. April Electoral Implications of Judicial Scandal, with Virginia Hettinger. Midwest Political Science Meeting. Chicago, IL. April The Nature and Timing of Judicial Scandal, with Virginia Hettinger. Northeastern Political Science Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. November Overcoming Obstacles: The Use of Pilot Judgments by the European Court of Human Rights. Law and Society Meeting, Seattle, WA, May Model Behavior: Considering Judicial Decision-Making at the European Court of Human Rights. Midwest Political Science Meeting, Chicago, IL. April Courting Legitimacy: Public Opinion and Institutional Trust in Latin America. Midwest Political Science Meeting, Chicago IL, April Bringing in Judicial Behavior: Considering the Influence of Ideology and Constraints in European Court of Justice Preliminary Rulings. Law and Society Meeting, Boston, MA, May Locating Legitimacy: European Support for the Court of Justice. Midwest Political Science Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2013 From the Top of the Mountains to the Rivers Down Below: A Look at the Emergence of Minority Rights in Quebec. New England Political Science Meeting, Portsmouth, NH, April 2012.

4 Magnified: Citations of Foreign and International Law. Southern Political Science Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January A Legal Invasion? International and Foreign Law Citations in Majority Opinions from the Rehnquist Court ( ). Northeastern Political Science Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November Conference Service: Co-Discussant, U.S. Supreme Court: Policy & Decisionmaking. Midwest Political Science Meeting, Chicago, IL. April Discussant, Cross-National Judicial Politics. Midwest Political Science Meeting, Chicago, IL, April Co-Discussant, Activities and Impact of International Judicial Bodies. American Political Science Meeting, Washington, DC, August Chair, Fundamental Rights and the EU, Law and Society Meeting, Boston, MA, May ACADEMIC SERVICE Faculty Representative, Student Affairs Committee, Graduate Representative, Graduate Admissions Committee Graduate Representative, Graduate Affairs Committee Conference Organizer, 4 th Annual Graduate Student Conference on Democracy and Governance President, Political Science Graduate Student Senator, Graduate Student Senate HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS 2017 Summer Research Grant University of Michigan LEO Professional Development Grant Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship Collaborative Research Grant (with Virginia Hettinger) George F. Cole Dissertation Fellowship Fund for Legal Studies Fellowship Summer Fellowship

5 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP American Political Science Midwest Political Science Law and Society REFERENCES Virginia Hettinger Jonathan Williamson Caroline Payne