Toni Massaro

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 has authored numerous law review articles on constitutional law, shame penalties, and law and emotion. Massaro’s publications have appeared in the Yale Law Review, 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.  Prof. Massaro is a nine-time recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Haury Program.