Clayton Masterman

Clayton J. Masterman is a Visiting Professor of Law at the Florida State University College of Law for the Fall 2025 semester. He is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo School of Law where he teaches tort law, health care law, and law and economics. 

Professor Masterman's research examines the role of courts and administrative agencies in regulating risks to health and safety. His work evaluates the effectiveness of legal responses to public health risks and investigates the methods that legal institutions use to value risk. For example, his recent work has examined whether current approaches to public nuisance and products liability can efficiently deter defendants from exposing consumers to addiction risks. His scholarship has been published both in law journals - including the Cardozo Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, and Richmond Law Review, among others - and in peer-reviewed publications, including the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty and the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. 

Professor Masterman practiced litigation at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick in Washington, D.C. He received his J.D. and Ph.D. in Law and Economics from Vanderbilt University. He clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Judge Gregg J. Costa of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.