Rhonda Evans is Director of the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government. Holding both a J.D. and Ph.D., her research focuses on the politics of law and courts, with special emphasis on Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. She has published in the Australian Journal of Political Science, Congress and the Presidency, and Journal of Common Market Studies. She is also co-author of Legislating Equality: The Politics of Antidiscrimination Policy in Europe with Oxford University Press (2014).
Christine Bird is a Ph.D. student in the Government Department at The University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in Public Law and American Politics. She holds a juris doctorate and a license to practice law in her home state of Oklahoma. While in law school, she completed a variety of internships including a year of service at the Oklahoma Supreme Court for Justice Tom Colbert. Additionally, she served on her law review’s board of editors. She currently serves as the Graduate Research Assistant for the Australia and New Zealand Policy Agendas Projects. Her research interests include the intersection of law and society, judicial politics, constitutional law, and civil rights.
