Lloyd Mayer joined the faculty of Notre Dame Law School as an associate professor of law in 2005 and became a full-time professor and associate dean in 2011. He teaches courses at Notre Dame Law School in federal income taxation, business enterprise taxation, election law, and not-for-profit organizations. He also lectures at the Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business on legal issues facing nonprofit organizations.
While at Yale Law School, Professor Mayer was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and served as business editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and as an editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. Following graduation, he clerked for Judge Lowell A. Reed, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He then joined Caplin & Drysdale in Washington, D.C., first as an associate and later as a member, where he concentrated on tax issues, particularly for nonprofit organizations.
Professor Mayer’s areas of research interest and expertise include advocacy by nonprofit organizations, the growing intersection of election law and tax law with respect to lobbying and other political activity, and the role of nonprofits both domestically and internationally.
EDUCATION: Stanford University, A.B.; Yale Law School, J.D.