Paul MacMahon

Climenko Fellow

Lecturer on Law

Additional Information

Mr. MacMahon will teach a section of First Year Legal Research and Writing in the Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 terms.

Biographical Statement

Paul MacMahon's scholarship focuses on expertise, accountability, and legitimacy in adjudication; his specific interests include contracts, torts, civil procedure, and criminal procedure. Originally from Northern Ireland, he received his initial legal education from the University of Oxford, where he received a B.A. (with First Class Honors), a Bachelor of Civil Law (with distinction), and an M.Phil. in law. He then moved to the United States, where he received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Judge John Gleeson on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Between clerkships, he worked in the appellate litigation group at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP in New York. Before taking up his position as a Climenko Fellow, he taught contracts and torts at Cambridge University, where he was a Fellow of Wolfson College.

Representative Publications

• MacMahon, Paul. "Proceduralism, Civil Justice, and American Legal Theory," 34 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2013).
  
• MacMahon, Paul. "Self-Service Search Warrants and International Terrorism: Lessons from Damache v. DPP," 1 Irish Law Journal (forthcoming 2012).