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Sterling Professor of Law

Jerry L. Mashaw is Sterling Professor of Law at the Yale Law School, where he teaches courses on Administrative Law, social welfare policy, regulation, legislation, and the designing of public institutions. He formerly taught at Tulane University and the University of Virginia, and has lectured and taught abroad in Europe, Latin America, China, New Zealand and Australia His many books include Administrative Law: Introduction to the American Public Law System (5th edition 2003, with Richard Merrill and Peter Shane), Bureaucratic Justice (1983), awarded Harvard University’s Gerard Henderson Memorial Prize in 1993, The Struggle for Auto Safety (with David Harfst 1990), awarded the Sixth Annual Scholarship Prize of the ABA’s Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy in 1992 and Greed, Chaos, and Governance: Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law (1997), awarded the Section’s Twelfth Annual Scholarship Prize in 1998 and the Order of the Order of the Coif Triennial Book Award in 2002 for books published between 1997 and 1999. He is a frequent contributor to legal and public policy journals and to newspapers and news magazines.

Professor Mashaw is a founding member, member of the Board of Trustees, and past president of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He is a fellow the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was founding co-editor (with O.E. Williamson) of the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. Professor Mashaw has served as a consultant for a number of U.S. government agencies and private foundations and to the governments of Peru, Argentina, and the Peoples Republic of China. He has lectured and taught at various universities in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela.

Professor Mashaw has two children and four grandchildren. He and his wife, Anne MacClintock, are enthusiastic sailors and together have written articles for various sailing periodicals and a book, Seasoned by Salt: A Voyage in Search of the Caribbean (2003).

Achievements and Awards
Fellow, National Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, National Academy of Social Insurance

Selected Books
Introduction to the American Public Law System, Fifth Edition (with R. Merrill and P. Shane), West Publishing Company, 2003

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

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

"Corporate Social Responsibility: Some Comments on the Legal and Economic Context of a Continuing Debate" Yale Journal of Social Policy, 1985

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