Jerry L. Mashaw is an American lawyer, currently the Sterling Professor Emeritus and professorial lecturer of law at Yale University, and also a published author.
The focal point for their contributions is the work of Jerry Mashaw, a figure widely admired despite (or perhaps because of) his ambivalent relationship to the field.
On the one hand, Mashaw is the consummate insider: a professor at Yale Law School since 1976 and holder of a Sterling chair, the university’s highest honor; three-time winner of the ABA Administrative Law Section’s award for scholarship; and longtime public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Mashaw's contributions to interdisciplinary studies include the founding, with Oliver Williamson, of the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization and numerous articles and books both critiquing and applying positive political theory (often called public choice theory) to the analysis of law and legal institutions.
His major books include: Mashaw is married to Anne U. MacClintock (an artist, retired from a career as a teacher, lawyer and business executive) and has two children, four grandchildren and one great grandchild.