School of Government Faculty and Staff
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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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Name:
John L. Saxon |
| Title:
Professor of Public Law and Government |
| Phone:
919.966.4289 |
| E-mail: saxon@sog.unc.edu |
| Areas
of Interest: Social services law; child support;
elder law; family policy |
John Saxon joined the Institute of Government in 1992. Prior to that, he worked for 15 years as an attorney for the US Senate and the US Department of the Interior, and as a legal services lawyer in South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina. He is the editor of North Carolina Legislation 1997 and North Carolina Legislation 1998, co-author of The Law and the Elderly in North Carolina, and he has written a number of articles and bulletins regarding welfare reform, social services, child support, and elder law. In 2004 the result of Saxon's research on faith-based social services initiatives were published in Popular Government. Saxon earned a BA from Auburn University and a JD from Antioch School of Law in Washington, DC.
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