Timothy Johnson
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
I am Horace T. Morse Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law (by courtesy) at the University of Minnesota. I have published more than 70 articles, book chapters, and publicly facing papers, two monographs, and six books including SCOTUS and COVID(2023), Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court (2012), A Good Quarrel (2009), and Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the U.S. Supreme Court (2004). Findings from many of these projects, along with my legal and political commentary, have been covered by The Economist, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR (see my Media and Outreach page for a full list). Members of the Illinois Supreme Court and its clerks, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and The Advocates Society of Canada and Canadian Supreme Court, have sought my expertise. In 2024, I served on the advisory board of the Brown v. Board of Education Revisited Project and currently serve as the Academic Lead for On the Docket.
I have mentored or advised 33 graduate students and overseen more than 250 undergraduate projects (including 10 UROPS). In 2018 I was a semi-finalist for the Robert F. Cherry Award for Great Teaching and won the American Political Science Association's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, 1998
- MA: Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, 1995
- BA: Political Science, Russian Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College, 1993
Specialties
- American politics
- Judicial Politics
- Supreme Court Decision Making
- Supreme Court Oral Arguments
- Executive/Judiciary Relations
- Supreme Court Nominations and Confirmations
- Precedent and the U.S. Supreme Court