Paul G. Mahoney
David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Paul G. Mahoney is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on securities regulation, law & economic development, corporate finance, financial derivatives, and contracts. He is the author of “Wasting a Crisis: Why Securities Regulation Fails.”
Mahoney has spent his academic career at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he also served as dean and as academic associate dean and held the Albert C. BeVier Research Chair and the Brokaw Chair in Corporate Law. He also served as interim president of the University of Virginia. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School, the University of Southern California Law School, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
Earlier in his career, he practiced law at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mahoney is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee and previously served as an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives and a director of the American Law and Economics Association. He received the All-University Outstanding Teacher Award and the law school’s Traynor Award for excellence in faculty scholarship.
He earned a bachelor’s from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
