Her work crosses disciplines, addressing constitutional questions using the methods of complex systems analysis, game theory, experimental methods, and spatial analysis, and has been published in law reviews as well as journals in economics, political science, and sociology. In addition to her work on federal constitutional design, Professor Bednar is working on two other projects: the emergence of culture and its effect on institutional performance, and the implications for representation of out-of-district individual campaign contributions. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1998.