Toni M. Massaro

Regents Professor, Dean Emerita; Executive Director of the University of Arizona Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice

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. From 1997-2022, she was the Milton O. Riepe Chair in Constitutional Law. In 2022, she became the Milton O. Riepe Chair in Constitutional Law Emerita.  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.  From 2020-21, she was the Interim Director of the Agnese Nelms Haury Program.  Since 2021, she has been the Executive Director of the Haury Program.

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 and Freedom of Expression. Prof. Massaro is an eight-time recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Agnese Nelms Haury Program on Social and Environmental Justice at the University of Arizona.

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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

  • Dean Emerita
    James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
    2009 - present
  • Regents Professor
    James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
    2006 - present
  • Dean
    James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
    1999 - 2009
  • Milton O. Riepe Chair in Constitutional Law
    James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
    1997 - present
  • Professor of Law
    College of Law, University of Arizona
    1989 - 1997
  • Visiting Professor of Law
    Stanford University
    Fall 1989
  • Visiting Professor of Law
    University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
    Spring 1989
  • Visiting Professor of Law
    Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, W. Germany
    Spring - Summer 1988
  • Professor of Law
    University of Florida
    1988 - 1989
  • Associate Professor of Law
    University of Florida
    1985 - 1988
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
    University of Florida
    1984 - 1985
  • Assistant Professor of Law
    Washington & Lee University
    1982 - 1984
  • Associate
    Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, Chicago, Ill.
    1980 - 1982

Public & Institutional Service

  • Fellow, American Bar Foundation
  • The American Law Institute, Elected Member
  • Arizona State Bar Board of Governors (ex officio)
  • Arizona Judicial College

Awards

  • Teacher of the Year
    2014, 2013, 1997, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1988
  • Planned Parenthood Service Award
    2013
  • Law College Association Award
    2012
  • Judge Learned Hand Public Service Award
    2009
  • Arizona Minority Bar Association Scholarship Banquet Honoree
    2009
  • Women's Studies Advisory Council, 12th Annual Women Who Lead Honoree
    2008
  • Volunteer Lawyers Program Distinguished Service Award
    2008
  • YWCA "Women on the Move" Award
    2002
  • Arizona State Bar, 100 Women and Minorities Honoree
    2000
Faculty
Constitutional Law
First Amendment Law