UCR Department of Political Science

John W. Cioffi

Assistant Professor

2216 Watkins Hall
(951) 827-7269
e-mail: cioffi@citrus.ucr.edu

Degrees

PhD in Political Science 2002, University of California, Berkeley
MA in Political Science 1995, University of California, Berkeley
JD, 1990, Rutgers School of Law-Newark
BA in Political Science and English, 1986, Rutgers University

Research Areas

Comparative corporate governance
Law and political economy (American and comparative)
Legal change and regulatory reform
Public law and comparative regulation (corporate law, securities law and regulation, labor relations, environmental law and policy)

Former Institution

University of California, Berkeley

Publications

"Expansive Retrenchment: The Regulatory Politics of Corporate Governance Reform and the Foundations of Finance Capitalism in the United States and Germany," in Jonah Levy, ed., The State After Statism: New State Activities in the Age of Globalization and Liberalization (under contract, Harvard University Press)

"Governing Globalization? The State, Law, and Structural Change in Corporate Governance," in Thomas Clarke, ed., Corporate Governance: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management , Volume V: Contemporary Corporate Governance ( London and New York : Routledge, 2004)

"The State of the Corporation: State Power, Politics, Policymaking and Corporate Governance in the United States, Germany, and France," in Martin Shapiro and Martin Levin, eds., Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity ( Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004)

"Restructuring ‘Germany, Inc.’: The Corporate Governance Debate and the Politics of Company Law Reform," Law & Policy, vol. 24(4), pp. 355-402 (October 2002)

"Governing Globalization? The State, Law, and Structural Change in Corporate Governance," Journal of Law and Society, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 572-600 (December 2000)

"State of the Art: A Review Essay on Comparative Corporate Governance: The State of the Art and Emerging Research," American Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 501-534 (Summer 2000)

John W. Cioffi and Steven S. Cohen, "The Advantages of Forwardness: The State, Law, and Corporate Governance in an Age of Globalization," Chapter 10 in Steven Cohen and Gavin Boyd, eds., Globalization and Corporate Governance: Strategic and Long Range Planning Issues ( Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton, MA: Matthew Elgar, 2000), pp. 307-349

Kazumasu Aoki and John W. Cioffi, "Poles Apart: Industrial Waste Management Regulation and Enforcement in the United States and Japan" Chapter 2 (lead chapter) in Robert A. Kagan and Lee Axelrad, Regulatory Encounters: The Regulatory Experiences of Multinational Corporations under Different Legal Regimes ( University of California Press, 2000), pp. 33-63

Kazumasu Aoki and John W. Cioffi, "Poles Apart: A Comparative Study of Waste Management Regulation and Enforcement in the United States and Japan," Law and Policy, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 213-245 (July 1999)

John W. Cioffi, Robert A. Kagan and Kazumasu Aoki, "A Matter of Style: Environmental Regulation in Japan and the United States," in Wieger Bakker and Frans van Waarden, eds., Dutch Journal of Regulation, 1999-2000 Yearbook (Amsterdam: Uitgeverji Boom, 1999), pp. 171-199, published in Dutch as "Een Kwestie van Stijl: Milieuwetgeving in Japan en de Verenigde Staten," in Wieger Bakker and Frans van Waarden, red., Ruimte Rond Regels: Stijl van Regulering en Beleidsuitvoering Vergeleken, Beleid en Maatscappij Jaarboek 1999-2000

Selected Awards and Grants

Visiting Research Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Social Research, Cologne, Germany (Summer 2003)

Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Riverside (2003-2004, 2003-2002, 2001-2002)

Departmental Research Grant, Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside (2002-2001)

National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant, Public Law Program, Grant No. SES-9906158, for "Dissertation Research: Public Law and Private Power: The Comparative Political Economy of Corporate Governance in the U.S. and Germany" (1999-2001)

Simpson Dissertation Fellow, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2000-2001)

Hewlett Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2000-2001)

Sharlin Fellowship, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1999-2000)

Regents Fellowship, University of California , Berkeley (1994-1998)

Biography

John W. Cioffi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California , Riverside . Professor Cioffi received his Ph.D. from the University of California , Berkeley , in 2002 and his J.D. from Rutgers University in 1990. He joined the UCR faculty in 2001. Professor Cioffi’s academic interests include: law and political economy (American and comparative), comparative corporate governance, comparative political economy, comparative public law and regulation, and legal change and regulatory reform. Hi s research explores the relationships between public law and political economy. Professor Cioffi is currently completing a book manuscript entitled, Public Law and Private Power: The Comparative Political Economy of Corporate Governance Reform in the Age of Finance Capitalism. This work focuses on the comparative law and political economy of national corporate governance regimes in Europe and the United States , and the politics of corporate governance reform from the 1980s to the present. Professor Cioffi’s research has found that as the functioning of the corporation becomes increasingly central to economic and social development, legalistic regulation of corporate governance has actually increased. In an era of globalization and free market ideology, the regulatory state has significantly expanded in scope and in the depth of its penetration into the private sphere as the formal structure and internal operations of the corporate firm have become increasingly politicized.

Professor Cioffi has published numerous articles and chapters on the law and political economy of corporate governance, environmental regulation, the law and globalization, and the law and the digital economy. He has taught constitutional law, regulation, comparative political economy, and law and policy in the digital economy . Professor Cioffi has received numerous grants in support of his research including a National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant. His research has appeared in the Law & Policy, the Journal of Law and Society, and the American Journal of Comparative Law. Prior to his academic career, Professor Cioffi clerked for United States District Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise (D.N.J.) and practiced law as a litigation associate with the New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton.

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