Jennifer Mason McAward

Associate Professor of Law

Office Number: 324 Law School
Telephone: 574.631.7528
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: mason.1@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Gerri Lehmkuhl

Jennifer Mason McAward is an associate professor of law, teaching courses in civil rights, habeas corpus, and constitutional law. In 1994, she received her undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Notre Dame with a major in Government and a minor in Theology. Upon graduation, she spent one year doing volunteer work through the Holy Cross Associates program. In 1998, she received her J.D. summa cum laude from New York University School of Law, where she was managing editor of the law review.

Following law school, Professor Mason McAward clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski on the Ninth Circuit and then for United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. She practiced law and completed a public service fellowship with Holland & Knight LLP in Washington, D.C.

LAW70305, Constitutional Law II

LAW70360, Civil Rights Law

LAW70468, Post-Conviction Remedies

Faculty Expertise Areas

• Civil rights law
• Constitutional law
• Habeas corpus

Congress’ Power to Block Enforcement of Court Orders, __ Iowa Law Review (forthcoming).

Buying Time for Survivors of Domestic Violence: A Proposal for Implementing an Exception to Welfare Time Limits, 73 New York University Law Review 621-66 (1998).