Jacob Gersen
Assistant Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street, Room 417
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773 834-7469
email: jgersen@uchicago.edu

Mr. Gersen received his A.B. in Public Policy with honors, magna cum laude from Brown University in 1996, and received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 2001. He graduated from the Law School with high honors in 2004, where he was also a member of the law review. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and joined the faculty in 2005. His principal teaching and research interests include administrative law, legislation, law and politics, torts, and empirical law and economics.

Born: 1973.
Education: A.B. 1996, Brown University; M.A. 1998, Ph.D. (Political Science) 2001, J.D. 2004, University of Chicago.