Clayton Masterman

Clayton Masterman is an Associate Professor of Law teaching tort law and health care law. His research examines the appropriate role of courts and administrative agencies in regulating risks to public health from an empirical law and economics perspective. His work evaluates the effectiveness of legal responses to public health risks and investigates the methods that legal institutions use to value risk.  

His work has appeared in the Indiana Law Journal, the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, and the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, among other publications.   

Prior to joining the faculty, Masterman was an associate at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick LLP in Washington, D.C., where his practice included litigation related to administrative law, antitrust law, and intellectual property law. Before he joined the firm, Masterman served as a law clerk to the Honorable David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and a law clerk to the Honorable Gregg J. Costa of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  

Masterman received his Ph.D. in Law and Economics from Vanderbilt University and his J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School. He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Vassar College.