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Sheldon Goldman (born September 18, 1939) is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Picking Federal Judges (1997, 1999) and The Federal Courts as a Political System, (3rd ed., 1985). He also has written other works and numerous articles in professional journals including American Political Science Review , Journal of Politics , and Judicature and chapters in books. He is chair of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 2000–2001; and a member of the Editorial Board, Law & Politics Book Review, 1994–1997; American Political Science Review, 1981–1985, and American Journal of Political Science , 1979–1982.

Goldman received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association in 2006.

He graduated from New York University (BA) and Harvard University (MA, PhD). [1]

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