Collins’ Book Recognized as Choice Outstanding Academic Title

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Paul Collins, Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, has been honored for the second time with a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award from the American Library Association. This award recognizes Collins’ book Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (Stanford University Press, 2023), co-authored by Christina L. Boyd (Washington University School of Law) and Lori A. Ringhand (University of Georgia School of Law).

Supreme Bias examines the subtle forms of bias that women and people of color face on their paths to the Supreme Court. In addition to revealing the disturbing extent to which race and gender bias exist even at the highest echelon of U.S. legal power, the book provides concrete suggestions for how that bias can be reduced in the future. In his review of the book for Choice, Professor Peter Watkins (Purdue University) referred to it as “essential reading.”

Collins and Ringhand’s 2013 book, Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change (Cambridge University Press, 2013) was also selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Earlier in 2024, Supreme Bias received the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.