Jason Mazzone

Jason Mazzone is the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Director of the Illinois Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law. Professor Mazzone's primary field of research and teaching is constitutional law and history. He works principally on issues of constitutional structure and institutional design with a particular focus on relationships between structural arrangements and individual rights. Prior to becoming a legal academic, he worked for Robert D. Putnam on the bestselling book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community and served as Rapporteur to the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America, a workshop group whose members included Barack Obama.