Jordan Carr Peterson
Faculty and Staff
Jordan Carr Peterson
Assistant Professor
Fields of Interest:
American Politics, Judicial Politics
Education: Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2018
I am a tenure-track professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, specializing in regulation and public law. I am also an Associate Editor at Research & Politics.
I earned my Ph.D. in political science at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Prior to graduate school, I graduated from law school at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. My research has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, the Rutgers University Law Review, the Missouri Law Review, American Politics Research, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Albany Law Review, the Journal of Law & Courts, the University of Hawai‘i Law Review, State Politics & Policy Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Politics & Gender, the Journal of Historical Political Economy, and Law & Policy. My research published in Political Research Quarterly was recognized by the Western Political Science Association as the Best Article Published in PRQ during 2020.
My work examines the operation of public authority in U.S. lawmaking institutions. My research and teaching interests include political and legal institutions, administrative law and regulatory processes, constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, and LGBTQ+ rights in the American state. Broadly speaking, my published and ongoing research considers adjudicative, regulatory, and legislative institutions in American government, as well as the scope and nature of those institutions’ capacity to structure both organizational practices and individual conduct. In addition to traditional modes of legal analysis, my research employs tools of empirical analysis from the social sciences to investigate critical issues facing the American state.
I am particularly interested in the legal regulation of sexual behavior and economic conflicts of interest. For instance, my research recently published in the Missouri Law Review considers the persistence of laws criminalizing consensual nonprocreative intercourse despite the Supreme Court holding invalidating such a statute in Lawrence v. Texas. Additionally, my research in the Albany Law Review provides a comprehensive overview of how financial conflicts of interest are regulated in the federal executive branch, argues that penumbral financial conflicts of interest go unregulated by the current regime governing public ethics, and uses multiple statistical methods to examine empirically the extent to which penumbral financial conflicts may bear on decision-making by public officials in the administrative state.
Likewise, my work analyzes the impact of fragmented lawmaking authority on the implementation of public policy. In research published in the Rutgers University Law Review, I offer the first comprehensive empirical examination of how administrative agencies have exercised delegated regulatory authority pursuant to significant federal legislation since the enactment of the Administrative Procedure Act. By considering critically the form and function of lawmaking institutions, my research and teaching have significant implications for understanding how law and policy can promote or frustrate the achievement of social, economic, sexual, racial, and environmental justice. Further, my scholarship on economic conflicts of interest helps contextualize the extent and quality of industry influence in the policy state. Last, research currently in development analyzes how the vertical and horizontal distribution of legal authority across American public institutions constrains the achievement of LGBTQ equality before the law by decentralizing the task(s) of policy implementation.
Events
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Guest Speaker Miles Kenney-Lazar: “Defending Accumulation: Global Rubber and the Embrace of Sustainability Capitalism”
Rubber plantations have been sites of social and environmental injustice since their colonial expansion. Several initiatives have emerged in recent years to address these...
Guest Speaker Miles Kenney-Lazar: “Defending Accumulation: Global Rubber and the Embrace of Sustainability Capitalism”Guest Speaker Miles Kenney-Lazar: “Defending Accumulation: Global Rubber and the Embrace of Sustainability Capitalism” 03:00 pm - Frieson Black Cultural Center- Date
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- Frieson Black Cultural Center
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“Oil Don’t Spoil”: ExxonMobile and the Challenges of National and Transnational Development in the Amazon Region
DESCRIPTION OF EVENT The visit of Dr. Vincent Adams to give a keynote at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in October 2022. Dr. Alexander’s lecture will be “ “Oil Don’t...
“Oil Don’t Spoil”: ExxonMobile and the Challenges of National and Transnational Development in the Amazon Region“Oil Don’t Spoil”: ExxonMobile and the Challenges of National and Transnational Development in the Amazon Region 05:00 pm - Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs- Date
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“Palm Oil Diplomacy”: Assessing Domestic Support for Indonesia’s Response to the EU RED II
Join us for the UT Global Studies Speaker Series as we proudly present a lecture titled “Palm Oil Diplomacy: Assessing Domestic Support for Indonesia’s Response to the EU RED...
“Palm Oil Diplomacy”: Assessing Domestic Support for Indonesia’s Response to the EU RED II“Palm Oil Diplomacy”: Assessing Domestic Support for Indonesia’s Response to the EU RED II 03:30 pm - International House- Date
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Vols Making an Impact in Political Communications
The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, College of Communication & Information, Center for Career Development & Academic Exploration, and Department of Political...
Vols Making an Impact in Political CommunicationsVols Making an Impact in Political Communications 05:00 pm - Communications Building- Date
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Interest Group Simulation with Political Communications Alumni
The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, College of Communication & Information, Center for Career Development & Academic Exploration, and Department of Political...
Interest Group Simulation with Political Communications AlumniInterest Group Simulation with Political Communications Alumni 12:00 pm - Communications Building- Date
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- Communications Building