Manoj Mate
Manoj Mate is a Professor of Law at the UB School of Law, State University of New York. His interdisciplinary research focuses on constitutional law, election law, comparative constitutional law and judicial politics..
His academic writings have been published or are forthcoming in leading law reviews and journals including the University of Chicago Legal Forum, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Tulane Law Review and Connecticut Law Review. Professor Mate was selected as a Public Voices Fellow for the Op-Ed Project in 2022, and his commentary and insights have appeared in Time Magazine, The Hill, Salon, Jurist and other publications. Professor Mate has held numerous external leadership appointments, including as chair of the Association of American Law Schools' (AALS) sections on Comparative Law and Law and South Asian Studies. He was appointed by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker as a member of the academic community on the Illinois Racial Profiling Prevention and Data Oversight Board, and previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor to San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro on public health and energy and sustainability polices.
Professor Mate holds a B.A. degree in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley. Prior to joining the legal academy, Mate was a Mellon Sawyer Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Society and a Fellow in Global Comparative Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Prior to joining the University at Buffalo, Mate served as an Associate Professor of Law and the Inaugural Faculty Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at DePaul University, Canada Research Chair in International Trade Law at the University of Windsor, and held visiting appointments at UC Berkeley and UC Irvine, and was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School.
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