Tom Clark
Bio
Tom Clark is a professor of political science and, by courtesy, of political economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research and teaching interests are in the political economy of judicial politics, policing and public safety, as well as applied formal theory and statistical methodology.
He is the editor of The Journal of Law & Courts, the flagship journal of the Law & Courts section of the American Political Science Association. Prior to joining Stanford, he was the David and Mary Winton Green Professor at the University of Chicago and, before that, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Political Science at Emory University. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University, Stanford University, and the Institute for Advanced Study at the Toulouse School of Economics.
Research Interests
- American political institutions
- Law and courts
- Judicial politics
- Applied political economy
Stanford University Affiliations
- Senior Fellow (by courtesy) Hoover Institution
- Professor of Political Science Stanford University
- Affiliated Faculty Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity
Academic Degrees
- PhD in Politics, Princeton University, 2008
Academic Appointments
- David and Mary Winton Green Professor, University of Chicago, 2024–2025
- Charles Howard Candler Professor, Emory University, 2008–2024