Judkins Mathews
Jud Mathews is a fourth-year graduate student in political science. His research interests include the development of the administrative state, relationships between courts and agencies, and the organization of judicial authority. Jud is currently at work on a project that reassesses the value of agency independence in American public law. This is related to a broader, comparative project that examines how different legal systems manage perceived conflicts between new structures of governance (like independent agencies) and constitutional norms.
Jud has worked with Professor Alec Stone Sweet on papers exploring the global spread of Proportionality Analysis (PA) as a way of structuring constitutional rights review and how PA might enhance rights review in U.S. courts. Other works in progress include a formal model of judicial bargaining and coalition formation, and an empirical study of the relation between Supreme Court majority size and opinion influence.
At Yale, Jud has served as Head Teaching Fellow for the undergraduate political science course “The Law and Politics of Globalization.”
Jud is a graduate of Yale Law School and a member of the Connecticut bar. He served as a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Qualifying fields: American Politics, Comparative Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, International Relations
Campus address: Yale University Department of Political Science, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street, P.O. Box 208301, New Haven, CT 06520-8301
Email: jud.mathews@yale.edu
C.V.: pantheon.yale.edu/~jcm69/cv.pdf
Teaching: pantheon.yale.edu/~jcm69/teaching.html
