Jodi Short

Bio

Jodi Short is the Mary Kay Kane Professor of Law at UC Law, San Francisco.  She teaches Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Legislation, Compliance & Risk Management for Attorneys, and Transnational Labor Regulation.  Her research investigates various facets of regulation and governance, including regulatory compliance and enforcement, private voluntary regulation, and separation of powers in the U.S. administrative state.  Recent work reveals the tension between the major questions doctrine and Roberts Court presidentialism, documents how agencies implement broadly worded statutory “public interest” standards and identifies a moral turn in administrative law.  Her ongoing research explores the relationship between social activism and corporate compliance with private regulation; tests the efficacy of different messaging strategies on compliance with environmental regulations; and analyzes how the concept of “tyranny” is understood and deployed in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley
  Ph.D., Sociology 2008

• University of California, Berkeley
  M.A., Sociology 2002

• Georgetown University Law Center
  J.D., Law 1995

• Duke University
  B.A., History and Economics 1992

Selected Scholarship

• Major Questions About Presidentialism: Untangling the “Chain of Dependence” Across Administrative Law
  (with Jed H. Shugerman), 65 B.C. L. REV. 511 2024

• In Search of the Public Interest
  40 YALE J. REG. 759 2023

• Regulatory Managerialism as Gaslighting Government
  86 L. & CONTEMP. PROBS. 1 2023

• The Dog that Didn’t Bark: Looking for Techno-Libertarian Ideology in a Decade of Public Discourse About Big Tech Regulation
  (with Reuel Schiller, Susan Silbey, Noah Jones, Babak Hemmatian, and LeeAnna Bowman-Carpio), 19 OH. ST. TECH. L. J. 1 2022

• Editors’ Introduction: Has Regulation & Governance Made a Difference?
  (with David Levi-Faur, Benjamin Van Rooij, Eva Thomann, and Sally Simpson), 15TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE OF REGULATION & GOVERNANCE 2021

• The Politics of Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance: Theorizing and Operationalizing Political Influences
  15 REGULATION & GOVERNANCE 653 2021

• Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design
  (with Michael W. Toffel and Andrea Hugill), 73 IND. & LAB. REL. REV. 873 2020

• Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions
  (with Yanhua Bird and Michael W. Toffel), 30 ORGANIZATION SCIENCE 847 2019

• What’s Reasonable Now? Sexual Harassment Law after the Norm Cascade
  (with Joan C. Williams, Margot Brooks, Hilary Hardcastle, Tiffanie Ellis & Rayna Saron), 2019 MICH. ST. L. REV. 139 2019

• The Trouble with Counting: Cutting through the Rhetoric of Red Tape Cutting
  103 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 93 2018

• Festschrift in Honor of Professor Lesley McAllister
  41 ENVIRONS ENVTL. L. & POL'Y J. 155 2018

• Monitoring Global Supply Chains
  Strategic Management Journal 2016

• The Integrity of Private Third-Party Compliance Monitoring
  Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel, Administrative and Regulatory Law News 2016

• Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards
  Regulation & Governance 2015

• Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Self-Reporting a Signal of Effective Self-Policing?
  The Journal of Law and Economics 2011

• Making Self-Regulation More than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment
  Administrative Science Quarterly 2010

• The Causes and Consequences of Industry Self-Policing
  Yale Economic Review 2008