Dr. Rebecca Reid, Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Texas at El Paso, specializes on the establishment and maintenance of the rule of law, the tensions and interactions between international and domestic law, and determinants of judicial decision making in a variety of courts within American and comparative contexts. Her work appears in academic journals such as Political Research Quarterly, The Justice System Journal, and The Journal of Law and Courts, as well as within edited volumes by Routledge and University of Michigan.