Martin M Shapiro

Martin Shapiro is the James W. and Isabel Coffroth Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught in the political science departments at Harvard and Stanford Universities and at UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. He joined the Berkeley law faculty in 1977. Shapiro earned his PhD in political science, in 1961, from Harvard. In addition to this classic study, Shapiro is the author of Law and Politics in the Supreme Court; Supreme Court and Administrative Agencies; Courts: A Comparative and Political Analysis; and Who Guards the Guardians: Judicial Control of Administration. In 2003, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association.