Dr. Jud Mathews

Biography

Jud Mathews is a Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law, with courtesy appointments in Penn State's Department of Political Science and School of International Affairs. His scholarly work focuses primarily on Administrative Law and Constitutional Law, with extensive writings on the techniques of constitutional rights adjudication in U.S. jurisdictions, particularly proportionality review. His scholarship in Administrative Law has explored political economy, judicial deference doctrines, and the tensions between administrative law and democratic theory. He is the author of influential books published by Oxford University Press, including 'Extending Rights’ Reach: Constitutions, Private Law, and Judicial Power' and 'Proportionality Balancing in Constitutional Governance: A Global Comparative Approach' (co-written with Alec Stone Sweet). Additionally, he has contributed to an Administrative Law casebook available for free download. Prior to joining Penn State, he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, and he worked as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Recently, he spent the 2021-22 academic year at Humboldt University of Berlin, supported by a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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