Saura Masconale
J.D, Ph.D (Law & Economics)
I am the Associate Director of the University of Arizona’s Center for the Philosophy of Freedom and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science. I am also Affiliated Faculty in the James E. Rogers College of Law and the Local Coordinator for EMLE (*European Master in Law & Economics) Arizona.
My research sits at the intersection of law and economics and political economy, exploring how legal entitlements, economic forces, and political structures shape power and responsibility in market societies. Much of my work examines the modern corporation as a key institutional site where these dynamics unfold—investigating its dual role as both economic and political actor and the related implications for democratic accountability and the moral legitimacy of market institutions. My articles have appeared in the Northwestern Law Review, Texas Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Journal of Corporate Law, and Social Philosophy and Policy.
Before joining the University of Arizona, I taught at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Notre Dame Law School, and practiced corporate law at Clifford Chance LLP, an international law firm headquartered in London. I hold a J.D. from Bologna University and a Ph.D. in Law & Economics from LUISS University in Rome. I speak four languages: Italian, English, French and (some) Spanish.
