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If there ever was a time when a researcher worked alone in the pursuit of advancing knowledge, it was never known to me. Rather, in completing this work, I have benefitted from innumerable interactions with my colleagues, family, and friends. These ranged from quick chats in the hallway to informal barroom discussions over a Guinness at McCaffrey's Irish Pub to extended communications via email over the course of several years. While I bear all responsibility for any errors in fact or judgment contained in this work, I would be sinfully remiss to fail to acknowledge the assistance of a host of individuals and institutions whose support made this project possible.
The earliest incarnations of my work on amici curiae began at the University of Scranton, where I studied political science as an undergraduate. I entered “Da U” with an interest in the law that the faculty in the Departments of Political Science and Criminal Justice turned into an obsession. Indeed, it was at Scranton where I first came across the fact that interest groups use the judiciary, reading Walker and Epstein's (1993) introductory treatment of the Supreme Court (one of the few undergraduate texts I held onto). Confounded by what I viewed as an outlandish reality, I was intrigued. For encouraging an often bleary eyed undergraduate to pursue his passion, I thank Leonard Champney, Joseph Cimini, Jean Harris, Robert Kocis, William Parente, and Gretchen Van Dyke.
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