Richard A. Brisbin, Jr.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1975.
Office: 301D Woodburn Hall
Tel: 293 3811, ext. 5296
Email: Richard.Brisbin@mail wvu.edu
Professor Brisbin teaches and conducts research in the areas of American constitutional development, civil liberties, federal and state judicial behavior, law and public policy, and criminal justice. His published research encompasses issues related to freedom of expression, the politics of American appellate courts, constitutional and administrative law, the legal history of American political institutions, and the politics of disputing. He is the author of A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law & Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990 (Johns Hopkins, 2002) and Justice Antonin Scalia and the Conservative Revival (Johns Hopkins, 1997), and co-author of West Virginia Politics and Government (Nebraska, 1996) and School Desegregation and Defended Neighborhoods (Lexington, 1982). His work has appeared in such political science journals as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Studies in American Political Development, and the Western Political Quarterly, as well as in academic journals in law, history, and social psychology. Additionally, he has published numerous chapters in edited volumes, including The Institutions of American Democracy: The Judicial Branch (Ed. Kermit L. Hall and Kevin T. McGuire), and studies of West Virginia politics for the West Virginia Institute for Public Affairs. In 1997, he won the Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the 1996 American Political Science Association, and in 2003, he was recipient of the Benedum Distinguished Researcher Award, West Virginia University’s highest research award. He previously served as editor the Law & Politics Book Review of the Law and Courts Section of the APSA and as president of the West Virginia Political Science Association.
