Jennifer Mascott

Jennifer Mascott is Co-Executive Director of the Gray Center and an Assistant Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School. Professor Mascott writes in the areas of administrative and constitutional law and the separation of powers. Her scholarship has been cited by the Supreme Court and has been published in the Stanford Law Review and a number of other journals. She is a former law clerk to Justice Thomas and to then-Judge Kavanaugh of the D.C. Circuit, and testified in the Senate in support of Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Professor Mascott recently took leave from her academic position to serve as Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice as well as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel. She also previously held the positions of Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and Vice Chair of the Judicial Review and Supreme Court Committee within the ABA’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. Professor Mascott formerly served as the Faculty Director of the Antonin Scalia Law School’s Supreme Court and Administrative Law clinics and as an Olin/Searle Fellow affiliated with the Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Mascott graduated from the George Washington University Law School, where she earned the highest cumulative graduating GPA on record at the school. She became the Center’s Co-Executive Director in 2021.