Mathew McCubbins
Visiting Professor of Law
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mmccubbins@ucsd.edu
Phone: (213) 740-7538
Room: 421
Mathew D. McCubbins is an adjunct professor of law and the Chancellor’s Associates Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is a visiting professor of law at USC Law and co-director of the USC Center for the Study of Law and Politics.
Professor McCubbins is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also taught at the University of Texas, Stanford University, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of San Diego Law School. McCubbins is a Distinguished Professor and the Chancellor’s Associates Chair in the Department of Political Science at UC San Diego.
He is the co-author of six books, The Logic of Delegation (University of Chicago Press, 1991), winner of the APSA’s 1992 Gladys M. Kammerer Award; Legislative Leviathan (University of California Press, 1993), winner of the APSA’s Legislative Studies Section’s 1994 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize; The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? (Cambridge University Press, 1998); Stealing the Initiative (Prentice-Hall 2000); Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the US House of Representatives (Cambridge University Press, 2005), winner of the APSA’s Leon Epstein Award; and Legislative Leviathan, Second Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2006). He is also editor or coeditor of eight additional books and has authored or coauthored more than 60 scientific articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, in political science, economics and biology, with one winning the Congressional Quarterly Prize for best article on legislative politics and another winning the SPPQ Award for best article on state politics. He has authored more than two dozen articles in law reviews or law journals.
Professor McCubbins holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science in 1994-95. He served as a co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization for eight years (Oxford University Press). He has published under the nom de plume of McNollgast with his coauthors Roger Noll and Barry Weingast. He is presently on the Board of the Society on Empirical Legal Studies and is a co-editor of the Journal of Legal Analysis, published by the Harvard Law School, and is a co-network director for the Political Science Network (PSN) within the Social Science Research Network (http://www.ssrn.com/psn/index.html).