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Janet Mason
Name: Janet Mason
Title: Gladys Hall Coates Professor of Public Law and Government
Phone: 919.966.4246
E-mail: mason@sog.unc.edu
Areas of Interest: Juvenile law; social services law; adoption; marriage law

Janet Mason joined the Institute of Government in 1982. Prior to that, she practiced law for seven years with legal services programs in North Carolina. Before law school she worked as a social worker in Baltimore and as a juvenile court counselor in Orange County. She has served on and chaired the university's Faculty Grievance Committee, the Chancellor's Advisory Committee, and the Committee on University Government. She also served on the Administrative Board of the School of Social Work. Recent publications include a Special Series bulletin, Confidentiality in Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings; an article in Popular Government about North Carolina marriage laws; Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect in North Carolina, Second Edition; and the 2005-2006 edition of North Carolina Juvenile Code and Related Statutes, published by LexisNexis. Mason earned a JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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