Saura Masconale

Saura Masconale is Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona Department of Political Economy and Moral Science and Affiliated Faculty at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. She is also the Associate Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, a university center in the Office for Research, Innovation and Impact. The Freedom Center provides research, teaching, and programming that is grounded in individual freedom and people’s right to constructively disagree.  At the Center, she oversees the Master of Legal Studies, Law & Economics concentration, cosponsored with the James E. Rogers College of Law. She is also the Local Coordinator for the European Master’s in Law & Economics (EMLE) – Arizona. 

 Her research focuses on the study of the relationship between markets and democracy, with a special emphasis on the public corporation context and the law and economics methodology.  Her most recent work examines the evolution of the corporation from a mere economic agent to a new political actor and explores the democratic and political implications of this transformation. Her articles have appeared in the Northwestern Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the Journal of Corporate Law, the European Business Journal, and Social Philosophy and Policy. 

 Saura holds a doctoral degree in law and economics from LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome) and a J.D. from University of Bologna. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, she taught at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Notre Dame Law School. Before entering academia, she practiced law at Clifford Chance LLC, an international law firm headquartered in London.