Toni M. Massaro
Professor Toni Massaro received her B.S. degree, with highest distinction, from Northwestern University. She obtained her law degree from the College of William and Mary, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Law Review. Massaro was in private practice in Chicago with Vedder, Price, Kaufman and Kammholz. She also has taught at Washington and Lee University, Stanford University, UNC-Chapel Hill, the University of Florida, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
Prof. Massaro joined the faculty at the University of Arizona College of Law in 1989. Since 1997, she has been the Milton O. Riepe Chair in Constitutional Law. In 2006, she was named a Regents Professor by the Arizona Board of Regents. From 1999 - 2009, she served as Dean of the College of Law, the first woman to hold that post.
Prof. Massaro is the author of The Arc of Due Process in American Constitutional Law (with E. Thomas Sullivan), Constitutional Literacy: A Core Curriculum for a Multicultural Nation, and Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems (with Barbara Allen Babcock and Norman Spaulding). She also is the author of dozens of law review articles on constitutional law, shame penalties, and law and emotion. Massaro’s publications have appeared in the Stanford Law Review, NYU Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Michigan Law Review, UNC Law Review, USC Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and William and Mary Law Review, among others. She currently teaches Constitutional Law I, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Religion, and Equal Protection. Prof. Massaro is an eight-time recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award. She currently serves as the Director of the Agnese Nelms Haury Program on Social and Environmental Justice at the University of Arizona.
Representative Publications
- Artificial Intelligence and the First Amendment, in Research Handbook on Law and Artificial Intelligence ___ (Woodrow Barfield, ed., forthcoming 2019) (co-author, with Helen Norton).
- Constitutional Cities: Sanctuary Jurisdictions, Local Voice, and Individual Liberty, 50 Colum. Hum. Rts. Rev. 1 (2018) (co-author, with Shefali Milczarek-Desai).
- Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems (6th ed. 2017) (co-author, with Barbara Allen Babcock & Norman W. Spaulding).
- FLINT of Outrage, 93 Notre Dame L. Rev. 155 (2017) (co-author, with Ellen Elizabeth Brooks).
- Chilling Rights, 88 U. Colo. L. Rev. 33 (2017).
- SIRI-OUSLY 2.0: What Artificial Intelligence Reveals About the First Amendment, 101 Minn. L. Rev. 2481 (2017) (co-author, with Helen Norton & Margot E. Kaminski).
- Siri-ously? Free Speech Rights and Artificial Intelligence, 110 Northwestern L. Rev. 1169 (2016) (co-author, with Helen Norton).
- The Lawfulness of the Same-Sex Marriage Decisions: Charles Black on Obergefell, 25 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 321 (2016).
- Outrageous and Irrational, 100 Minn. L. Rev. 281 (2015) (co-author, with Jane Bambauer).
- Nuts and Seeds: Mitigating Third-Party Harms of Religious Exemptions, Post-Hobby Lobby, 92 Denver U. L. Rev. 325 (2015).
- Tread on Me!, 17 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 365 (2014).
- The Arc of Due Process in American Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press 2013) (co-author, with E. Thomas Sullivan).
- Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems (5th ed. 2013) (co-author, with Barbara Allen Babcock & Norman W. Spaulding).
- Freedom of Speech, Liberal Democracy, and Emerging Evidence on Civility and Effective Democratic Engagement, 54 Ariz. L. Rev. 375 (2012) (co-author, with Robin Stryker).
- Foreign Nationals, Electoral Spending, and the First Amendment, 34 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 663 (2011).
- Christian Legal Society v. Martinez: Six Frames, 38 Hastings Const. L.Q. 569 (2011).
- Complete List of Publications
Education
- J.D. College of William and Mary
1980
Order of the Coif; Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Law Review - B.S. Northwestern University
1977
Graduated with Highest Distinction
Admitted to Practice
- United States Supreme Court
- Arizona
- Illinois (inactive status)
Work Experience
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Dean Emerita
James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
2009 - present
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Regents Professor
James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
2006 - present
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Dean
James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
1999 - 2009
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Milton O. Riepe Chair in Constitutional Law
James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
1997 - present
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Professor of Law
College of Law, University of Arizona
1989 - 1997
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Visiting Professor of Law
Stanford University
Fall 1989
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Visiting Professor of Law
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Spring 1989
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Visiting Professor of Law
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, W. Germany
Spring - Summer 1988
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Professor of Law
University of Florida
1988 - 1989
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Associate Professor of Law
University of Florida
1985 - 1988
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
University of Florida
1984 - 1985
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Assistant Professor of Law
Washington & Lee University
1982 - 1984
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Associate
Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, Chicago, Ill.
1980 - 1982
Public & Institutional Service
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Fellow, American Bar Foundation
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The American Law Institute, Elected Member
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Arizona State Bar Board of Governors (ex officio)
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Arizona Judicial College
Awards
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Teacher of the Year
2014, 2013, 1997, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1988
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Planned Parenthood Service Award
2013
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Law College Association Award
2012
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Judge Learned Hand Public Service Award
2009
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Arizona Minority Bar Association Scholarship Banquet Honoree
2009
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Women's Studies Advisory Council, 12th Annual Women Who Lead Honoree
2008
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Volunteer Lawyers Program Distinguished Service Award
2008
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YWCA "Women on the Move" Award
2002
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Arizona State Bar, 100 Women and Minorities Honoree
2000