Martin Shapiro

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 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).