Professor Martha Mahoney, a Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at the University of Miami School of Law, recently participated in DEF CON 33, held in Las Vegas, Nevada. There, she presented “DEF CON Voting Village: Regulatory Failures with Ballot Marking Devices," discussing the regulatory issues and security concerns associated with ballot marking devices. Mahoney highlighted the urgent need for trustworthy voting equipment and public assurance of its reliability. Watch her presentation here.
A former community organizer, Mahoney was a founding member of the San Francisco Women's Health Collective, served as volunteer coordinator in New Orleans for the United Farm Workers boycotts, and worked in offices and factories. Her master's thesis in history at Tulane University focused on public housing, race, and economic development in New Orleans. She graduated from Stanford Law School in 1989 and clerked for Judge Warren J. Ferguson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before arriving at Miami Law in 1990. Her legal scholarship focuses on law and social change. In January 2015, the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) honored Professor Mahoney with the annual Great Teacher Award.
Mahoney is co-author (with John Calmore and Stephanie Wildman) of “Cases and Materials on Social Justice: Professionals, Communities and Law, 2nd edition. She has written extensively in the areas of domestic violence and feminist theory, and in the areas of race, class, and development. Her recent work on the intersection of class theory and race emphasizes the ways in which law made solidarity difficult for American workers while the ideology of white privilege helped conceal the divisive role of law.
Mahoney teaches courses on Property, Criminal Law, Law and Social Justice, Election Law, and (since 2011) the Mortgage Crisis; she has also taught Land Use and seminars on Race, Class and Inequality, Domestic Violence, and Race and Urban Development.
