Martin Mathew Shapiro

Martin M. Shapiro is the James W. and Isabel Coffroth Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. Martin Shapiro has taught in the political science departments at Harvard and Stanford Universities and at UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1977 and has been a visiting professor at Amherst University, Yale, Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, Universita degli Studi di Milano, and the Summer Institute of the European Group for Public Law in Greece. Shapiro's interests include comparative judicial review in democratic and nondemocratic states, the law and politics of the E.U., transnational conflict resolution institutions, U.S. and comparative constitutional and administrative law and government regulation of business. He has recently written on the Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice, due process American style, human rights judicial review in Europe and regulatory corporatism. Shapiro is the author of Law and Politics in the Supreme Court; Freedom of Speech: The Supreme Court and Judicial Review; Supreme Court and Administrative Agencies; Courts: A Comparative and Political Analysis; and Who Guards the Guardians: Judicial Control of Administration. His recent publications include “The Politics of Information: U.S. Congress and the European Parliament” in Lawmaking in the European Union(1998) and “Judicial Review, Democracy and the European Court of Justice” in the Israel Law Review (1998). He is past president (1978) of the Western Political Science Association, past vice president (1988) of the American Political Science Association, and a trustee (1992-95) of the Law and Society Association. In 2003 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association.