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Academic Employment
Assistant Professor of Law, 2017-present
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, 2016-2017
Cornell University Law School
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2016-2017
Cornell University Department of Sociology
Education
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Ph.D., Sociology, May 2016
Dissertation: Going it Alone: Legal Mobilization and Efficacy in the Foreclosure Crisis
Committee: Stephen Morgan (chair), Valerie Hans, and Erin York Cornwell
Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL
J.D., May 2004
Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business: Senior editor 2003-2004
Senior Thesis: The Fork in the Road: Divergence in the Career Paths of Male and Female Alumni of Northwestern Law
Duke University, Durham, NC
A. B., Public Policy, Spanish, cum laude, May 2001
Publications
Erin York Cornwell, Emily S. Taylor Poppe & Megan Doherty Bea. 2017. “Networking in the Shadow of the Law: Informal Access to Legal Expertise through Personal Network Ties.” Law & Society Review 51(3): 635-668.
Taylor Poppe, Emily S. 2016. “Homeowner Legal Representation in the Foreclosure Crisis.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 13(4):809-836.
Taylor Poppe, Emily S. and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski. 2016. “Do Lawyers Matter? The Effect of Legal Representation in Civil Disputes.” Pepperdine Law Review 43(4): 881-944.
Morgan, Stephen L. and Emily S. Taylor Poppe. 2015. “A Design and a Model for Investigating the Heterogeneity of Context Effects in Public Opinion Surveys.” Sociological Methodology 45(1): 184-222.
Morgan, Stephen L. and Emily S. Taylor Poppe. 2012. “The Consequences of International Comparisons for Public Support of K-12 Education: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment.” Educational Researcher 41(7): 262-68.
Taylor, Emily S. 2004. “The Havana Club Saga: Threatening More than Just ‘Cuba Coke.’” Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business 24(2): 513-32.
Grants and Awards
2016 Invited Participant, Law and Society Association Graduate Student Workshop
2015 Invited Participant, Law and Society Association Graduate Student Workshop
2014-2015 Sage Fellow, Cornell University
2013 Seed Grant, Center for the Study of Inequality, Cornell University ($1,500)
2013 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant ($27,000)
2012 Department Citation for Excellence in Teaching (Linear Models), Cornell University
2011 Seed Grant, Center for the Study of Inequality, Cornell University ($750)
2009-2010 Sage Fellow, Cornell University ($750)
1998 North Carolina Political Science Association Rainey Troutman Award
Teaching
Procedural Analysis
University of California, Irvine School of Law, Spring 2018
Wills & Trusts
University of California, Irvine School of Law, Spring 2018
Professional Responsibility for LLMs
Cornell University School of Law, Spring 2017
Sociology of Law
Cornell University, Spring 2017
Presentations
| 2016 | Formalities on the Books, Foreclosures in Action: An Empirical Investigation of Homeowners’ Actions in Response to Foreclosure, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (June 2016).
The Tournament Unveiled, Conference of the Research Group on Legal Diversity of the American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL (May 2016). |
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| 2015 |
Legal Representation in the Foreclosure Crisis, Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, St. Louis, MO (October 2015). Foreclosure Formalities in Law and Action, Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality Workshop, Ithaca, NY (September 2015). Reacting to Naming, Blaming, and Claiming: Defendant Homeowners’ Actions in Response to Foreclosure American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sociology of Law Section, Chicago, IL (August 2015) |
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| 2014 | Going it Alone: Legal Representation in the Foreclosure Crisis. Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN (June, 2014).
Strategy and Constraint: Legal Representation for Homeowners Facing Foreclosure. 2014 Social Science Works-in-Progress Conference, Cornell University (March, 2014). Finding a Home in the Law. Society for Women and Law, Cornell University (March, 2014). |
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| 2013 | What DO lawyers do all day? Lawyers’ work and its significance for understanding the effect of legal counsel. Graduate Student Association Brown Bag, Cornell University (April, 2013).
Legal Research and Legal Careers. Society for Women and Law, Cornell University (January, 2013). |
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| 2012 | Young Lawyers’ Career Paths. Guest Lecture, Sociology of Law Course, Cornell University (October, 2012). | |
Professional Memberships
American Sociological Association
Graduate Association for Multidisciplinary Legal Studies, Cornell University
Co-founder, Vice President (2013-2014)
Law and Society Association
Society for Empirical Legal Studies
