PERSON: Jennifer Mascott

Antonin Scalia Law School.

Assistant Professor of Law

Jennifer Mascott is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School. Professor Mascott writes in the areas of administrative and constitutional law and the separation of powers. Her scholarship has been cited by the Supreme Court and has been published or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, the George Mason Law Review, the Cato Supreme Court Review, the BYU Law Review, the Loyola Journal of Regulatory Compliance, and the George Washington Law Review. The well-known Legal Theory Blog has reviewed her work as “path breaking,” and she is a permanent commentator at the Yale Journal of Regulation’s Notice and Comment blog. She has provided commentary on media outlets such as C-Span, CNN, CBSN, and Fox News and has been quoted or cited in the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, USA Today, the National Law Journal, and Bloomberg BNA, among other publications.

In August 2017, Professor Mascott was appointed to serve as a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. In Summer 2018, Professor Mascott was appointed Vice Chair of the Judicial Review and Supreme Court Committee within the ABA’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. Professor Mascott also previously served as Faculty Director of the Antonin Scalia Law School’s Supreme Court and Administrative Law clinics. Prior to joining the Antonin Scalia Law School faculty, she served as an Olin/Searle Fellow in Law affiliated with Georgetown University Law Center and the George Washington University Law School and taught at GW Law as a Professorial Lecturer in Law. Professor Mascott is a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Professor Mascott graduated summa cum laude from the George Washington University Law School where she received the John Bell Larner Award for the highest cumulative GPA in the graduating class, the Jennie Hassler Walburn Award for excellence in the area of civil procedure, and the Imogen Williford Constitutional Law Award. In addition, Professor Mascott served as Senior Projects Editor of the George Washington Law Review. During her time in law school, Professor Mascott interned for Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and worked as a summer associate at the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP. Before attending law school, Professor Mascott held various staff positions in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, including that of Press Secretary for former Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia and former Congresswoman Anne Northup of Kentucky.

— law.gmu.edu