Tonja Jacobi discusses her article "Supreme Court Interruptions and Interventions: The Changing Role of the Chief Justice." Recent scholarship has focused on how often the Supreme Court Justices get interrupted, especially when female Justices are speaking. To fix this, the Court changed how hearings are run. This article looks at whether these interruptions—and the gender gap in who gets interrupted—have gotten better, and if the new rules helped.

Tonja Jacobi is a Professor of Law and the Sam Nunn Chair in Ethics and Professionalism at Emory University School of Law. Professor Jacobi specializes in Supreme Court judicial behavior and public law.