Atkinson, David N. 1940–

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Atkinson, David N. 1940–

(David Neal Atkinson)

PERSONAL:

Born 1940. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: University of Iowa, B.A., 1962, J.D., 1965, M.A., 1966, Ph.D., 1969.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Mission, KS. Office—Department of Political Science, University of Missouri—Kansas City, 5100 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, MO 64110; fax: 816-235-5594. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Missouri—Kansas City, Kansas City, assistant professor, 1967-71, associate professor, 1971-75, professor of political science and law, 1987—, and Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science, also department head, 1979-81 and 1989-91. Member of the Bar, State of Iowa and Supreme Court of the United States. Member of editorial board, American Review of Politics, 1990-93.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grant from Harry S. Truman Library, 1969; grant from Weldon Spring Endowment Fund, 1986-87; outstanding teaching award, American Political Science Association, 1999.

WRITINGS:

Leaving the Bench: Supreme Court Justices at the End, University Press of Kansas (Lawrence, KS), 1999, updated edition, 2000.

Contributor to books, including The Ambivalent Force: Perspectives on the Police, 3rd edition, edited by Abraham S. Blumberg and Elaine Niederhoffer, Holt (New York, NY), 1985; The Supreme Court Justices and Their Court in the Stream of History, edited by Kermit L. Hall, Carlson Publishing (New York, NY), 1996. Contributor to professional journals, including Journal of Public Law, Midwest Journal of Political Science, Supreme Court Historical Society Quarterly, Northwestern University Law Review, and Indiana Law Journal.

SIDELIGHTS:

David N. Atkinson told CA: "I have been interested in the work of the U.S. Supreme Court for many years. The Court is, in many ways, a microcosm of the country. As Alexis de Tocqueville so correctly said, sooner or later nearly every question in America is turned into a judicial question. And how we—and through us the Court—resolve these questions tells us much about who we are as a people."