Isaac Unah

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science

Professor

361 Hamilton Hall

CB#3265

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

17

DOWNLOADS

3,584

TOTAL CITATIONS

3

Ideas:
“  Death Penalty; Drug Arrests and Punishment Politics; Perception of Race and Judging; Judicial Recusal; Dynamics of Supreme Court Litigation; Power of Floor Speeches in the U.S. Senate; Intergenerational Change Among Women Judges; Judicial Decision Making in Intellectual Property Rights.  ”

Scholarly Papers (17)

1.

The Effect of Race, Gender, and Location on Prosecutorial Decision to Seek the Death Penalty in South Carolina

South Carolina Law Review, Vol. 58, p. 16, November 2006
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 07 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2011
Michael J. Songer and Isaac Unah
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science
Downloads 1,240 (34,958)

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Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Prosecutor, District attorney; Prosecutorial Decision Making, Empirical Analysis; South Carolina

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Sharks and Minnows in the War on Drugs: A Study of Quantity, Race and Drug Type in Drug Arrests

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 53: 729-801
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 07 Jan 2019
University of North Carolina, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science and Independent
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war on drugs, drug arrests, race, drug quantities, drug types, NIBRS

3.

What Is So Special about Specialized Courts in the United States?

In Robert M. Howard and Kirk A. Randazzo, eds. Routledge Handbook of Judicial Behavior, New York, NY: Routledge, Inc. (2018)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Mar 2019
Isaac Unah and Ryan Williams
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
Downloads 340 (183,223)

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Specialized Courts, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Judicial Specialization, Subject-Matter Expertise

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Choosing Those Who Will Die: The Effect of Race, Gender, and Law in Prosecutorial Decision to Seek the Death Penalty in Durham County, North Carolina

Michigan Journal of Race & Law, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2009
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Jul 2011
Isaac Unah
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science
Downloads 280 (224,967)
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race, gender, law, capital punishment, death penalty, prosecutorial discretion, Durham County, North Carolina

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Media Exposure and Racialized Perceptions of Inequities in Criminal Justice

Social Sciences, Vol. 6 (#3):1-22
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 29 Jun 2017
Valerie Wright and Isaac Unah
Department of Criminology, Anthropology, & Sociology and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science
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media exposure; public perceptions; Trayvon Martin; inequality; race; criminal justice

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Punishment Politics: Gubernatorial Rhetoric, Political Conflict, and the Instrumental Explanation of Mass Incarceration in the American States

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Jun 2011
Isaac Unah and Elizabeth Coggins
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
Downloads 182 (340,559)

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mass incarceration, criminal punishment, gubernatorial rhetoric, instrumentalism, crime and punishment

7.

Empirical Analysis of Race and the Process of Capital Punishment in North Carolina

Michigan State Law Review, 2011: 609-658
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 02 May 2012 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2012
Isaac Unah
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science
Downloads 165 (371,088)

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Death penalty, capital punishment, Process theory, North Carolina, Racial Justice Act, prosecutorial decision making, punishment politics

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U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making, Case Salience, and the Attitudinal Model

Law & Policy, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 295-320
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Feb 2019
Isaac Unah and Ange-Marie Hancock
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science and Yale University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 140 (424,913)
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U.S. Supreme Court, Decision Making, Attitudinal Model, Case Salience, Judicial Politics, Civil Rights

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U.S. Supreme Court Justices and Public Mood

Journal of Law & Politics, Vol. 30 (Issue 3):293-340, 2015
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 01 Apr 2015
Isaac Unah, Kristen Rosano and K. Milam
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
Downloads 137 (432,238)
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Supreme Court Decision Making, Public Mood, Justice Blackmun, Justice Thurgood Marshall

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Explaining Corporate Litigation Activity in an Integrated Framework of Interest Mobilization

Business & Politics, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 65-94, 2003
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Jul 2011
Isaac Unah
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science
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Corporate Litigation Activity, Business Litigation, Disadvantaged Theory, Administered Protection, ITC, ITA

11.

The Twilight of Brown: Empirical Analysis of Re-Segregation and Voluntary Adoption of School Integration Policies Across the United States

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 30:227-277
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2021
Isaac Unah and Catherine M. Blalock
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
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When Governors Speak Up for Justice: Punishment Politics and Mass Incarceration in the American States

Journal of Political Science and Public Affairs, Vol. 1:1-12, 2013
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 Jun 2013
Isaac Unah and Elizabeth Coggins
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
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Mass Incarceration, Prisons, Governors, State of the State Address, Punishment Politics, Political Rhetoric, Instrumentalism

13.

The Legacy of President Barack Obama in the U.S. Supreme Court

In W.C. Rich (ed.), Looking Back on President Barack Obama's Legacy, Palgrave Macmillan Press (2019)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2019
Isaac Unah and Ryan Williams
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
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Obama Presidency, Supreme Court, Legacy, Presidential Dominance

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Echoes of the Feminine Mystique: Female Judges and Intergenerational Change in the United States Courts of Appeal

Journal of Law and Politics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 03 Jan 2023
Isaac Unah, Ryan Williams and Stephanie Zaino
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and Oregon State University
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Feminine Mystique, Female Judges, Judicial Decision Making, Betty Friedan, Conflict Theory, Generational Change, Courts of Appeal

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2. US Supreme Court decision making in Intellectual Property rights (1954-2022)

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Nov 2024
Isaac Unah and Sabrina Peng
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science and Duke University School of Law
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Echoes of the Feminine Mystique: Female Judges and Intergenerational Change in the United States Courts of Appeals

Journal of Law & Politics, 38:43-100, 2023
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 14 Mar 2023
Isaac Unah, Ryan Williams and Stephanie Zaino
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and Oregon State University
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Feminine Mystique, Female Judges, Judicial Decision Making, Betty Friedan, Conflict Theory, Generational Change, Courts of Appeals

17.

A Hierarchy of Victims in the North Carolina Death Penalty

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 03 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2023
Frank Baumgartner and Isaac Unah
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science
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Capital punishment, death penalty, race, gender, racial disparities, North Carolina