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Sterling Professor of Law

A professor at Yale Law School, Jerry Mashaw is a widely published expert on subjects concerning administrative law, legislation, federal health and safety regulation, and social welfare policy. He writes periodic columns on social welfare issues for the Los Angeles Times and is the author of numerous books and articles. His book Greed, Chaos and Governance: Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law was awarded the Twelfth Annual Scholarship Prize, for the section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy by the American Bar Association in 1998 and won the Triennial Book Award of the Order of the Coif (for books published between 1997-1990). A co-founding editor of the Journal of Law Economics and Organization, Professor Mashaw has consulted with various government bodies and private foundations.

Achievements and Honors
Fellow, National Academy of Arts and Sciences
Trustee, National Academy of Social Insurance

Books
True Security: Rethinking American Social Insurance (with M. Graetz), Yale University Press, 1999

Introduction to the American Public Law System, Fourth Edition (with R. Merrill and P. Shane), West Publishing Company, 1998

Greed, Chaos and Governance: Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law, Yale University Press, 1997

Disability, Work and Cash Benefits (with V. Reno, R. Burkhauser, and M. Berkowitz), W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1996

Balancing Security and Opportunity: The Challenge of Disability Income Policy (with V. Reno), NASI, 1996

The Environment of Disability Policy: Programs, People, History and Context (with V. Reno), NASI, 1996

Challenge for Social Insurance, Health Care Financing and Labor Market Policy (with V. Reno and W. Gradison), Brookings, 1996

Restructuring the SSI Disability Program for Children and Adolescents (with J. Perin and V. Reno), NASI, 1996

The Struggle for Auto Safety (with D. Harfst), Harvard University Press, 1990 (awarded Sixth Annual Scholarship Prize of Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy, ABA, 1992)

America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities (with T. Marmor and P. Harvey), Basic Books, 1990

Selected Articles
"True Security: Rethinking American Social Insurance" (with M.J. Graetz), Milken Institute Review, Vol. 1, No. 4, 58 ,1999

"Privatizing Social Security," 20 Consumers, No. 2, 1999

"Without a Net," XXIII Boston Review, No. 2 at 18, 1998

"The Great Social Security Scare" (with T. Marmor), The American Prospect, November/December, 1996

Education
PhD University of Edinburgh, 1969
LLB Tulane University, 1964
BA Tulane University, 1962