He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State in June 2006. His research and teaching interests center on American politics, judicial politics, and political methodology. The subjects of Brandon's research include: (1) judicial decision making, the Supreme Court, inter-branch interactions, the development of legal doctrine; (2) public opinion, political psychology, institutional evaluation; and (3) legislative politics, congressional organization and behavior. In political methodology, he is particularly interested in multilevel (hierarchical) modeling, event history (duration) modeling, models for panel and time-series cross-sectional data, Bayesian data analysis, structural equation modeling, and experimental methodology. Brandon teaches undergraduate courses in judicial politics, constitutional law, and methods, and graduate courses in judicial politics and political methodology.