Judge-Lord

Devin Judge-Lord is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy whose research examines how social movements and organized interests shape technocratic policymaking. His work explores interactions among interest groups, legislators, and government agencies, with particular attention to public pressure campaigns and agency rulemaking on climate and environmental justice. His broader research covers political representation, legislative behavior and capacity, money in politics, lobbying, congressional oversight, and private governance.

The website shares information about his research and teaching, along with data, software, tutorials, and his curriculum vitae. Featured projects address constituent services, legislative advocacy, public comments and agency policy, regulatory influence, and computational text analysis. Judge-Lord holds a Ph.

D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a master’s degree in Environmental Science from Yale University, and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Reed College. Before joining the University of Michigan, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University and worked in local government and for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization