Julia D. Mahoney
John S. Battle Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Julia D. Mahoney is the John S. Battle Professor of Law and the Joseph C. Carter Jr. Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
Her research focuses on property law, eminent domain, land preservation, health-care reform, nonprofit organizations, and property rights in human biological materials.
Mahoney has also taught at the University of Southern California Law School and the University of Chicago Law School. Before entering academia, she practiced law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York.
She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, serves as an adviser to the Restatement of Property, is a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance, and serves on the board of advisers of the New Civil Liberties Alliance.
Mahoney earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and a bachelor’s from Barnard College.
