astronomy

Tracey Meares

Tracey Meares is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tracey Meares rather than just read about it. In short: Tracey L. Meares is an American legal scholar and author.

Key takeaways

Tracey Meares belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Tracey Meares to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Tracey Meares from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Tracey L. Meares is an American legal scholar and author. She is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Previous to joining the Yale Law School faculty, she was Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago Law School. At both Chicago and Yale, she was the first African-American woman to be granted tenure.

Early life and education Meares was born to Robert and Carolyn Blackwell, who still live in Springfield, Illinois. Meares attended and graduated from a high school in the Springfield Public School District 186 in 1984 as one of two "Top Student"(s). In 2022, she was named the valedictorian, a delay that she attributes to racism. Meares holds a B.S. in general engineering from the University of Illinois in 1988, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1991.

Career Meares' first positions included a stint clerking for Harlington Wood, Jr. when he was on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, as well as a position at the United States Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, where she was a trial attorney. She taught at the University of Chicago Law School from 1995 to 2007, after which she joined Yale Law School as the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, a position she has held ever since. She also served as Yale Law School's Deputy Dean from 2009 to 2011 and co-founded The Justice Collaboratory along with Tom Tyler. As of 2021, she is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Criminology.

Awards and positions Meares has been a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice, and was appointed by then-Attorney General Eric Holder to serve on the Office of Justice Programs' Science Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Joyce Foundation's Board of Directors. In 2014, then-President Barack Obama appointed her to the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing when he created it by signing an executive order. She was elected an American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow in 2019.

References

External links Faculty page Tracey Meares publications indexed by Google Scholar Tracey L. Meares on C-SPAN

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Tracey Meares

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Tracey Meares claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Tracey Meares before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tracey Meares ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tracey Meares

In research: Tracey Meares appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tracey Meares in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tracey Meares is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Annual Reviews (publisher) editors, Living people, University of Chicago Law School alumni, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Tracey Meares outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Tracey Meares in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

What is Tracey Meares in simple terms?

Tracey L. Meares is an American legal scholar and author.

Why does Tracey Meares matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Tracey Meares?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Tracey Meares.