Keith Bybee is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and holds the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics. He directs the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media and the Sawyer Law and Politics Program at Maxwell, holds a courtesy appointment at the College of Law, is associate editor of the journal Law, Culture, and the Humanities and is president-elect of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Bybee is also editor of the new book series Law, Politics, and the Media published by Stanford University Press.