Mahoney clerked for Judge
Ralph K. Winter Jr. of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for
United States Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall. He practiced law at
Sullivan & Cromwell from 1986 until 1990, when he joined the Virginia law faculty. His areas of academic interest are securities regulation,
law and economic development, corporate finance, financial derivatives and contracts. Mahoney is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, and was an associate editor of the
Journal of Economic Perspectives and a director of the
American Law and Economics Association. On August 4, 2025, Mahoney was named as the interim president of the
University of Virginia. == See also ==