Welcome

I am a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and an affiliate with the Center for Law and Democracy. I will join the department as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2026.

I study American political institutions with a focus on judicial politics. My research explores how judges and litigants make decisions when faced with uncertainty. This work combines formal theory and quantitative methods to investigate the relationship between what courts want and what decisions they ultimately make.

My research has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Law and Courts and has been covered in The New York Times.

Before May 2026, I went by Anthony R. Taboni. Citations should reflect the name on the paper.

I received my PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University in 2025 and a B.A. in Mathematics and Political Science from the University at Buffalo in 2019.