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

Fellowships & Awards

Searle Visiting Fellow, Northwestern University School of Law Oct. 2007
Research Grant, Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, 2007-08
Environmental Protection Agency STAR Graduate Fellowship 2000 - 2003Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship 2000
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 1997 - 2000 Co-winner, Law & Social Inquiry Graduate Student Paper Competition 1999
William J. and Myrtle N. Hawley Fellowship, University of Chicago 1996 - 1997
Krieger Memorial Award for best honors thesis in Public Policy, Brown University 1996
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity Senior Honors Thesis Award, Brown University 1995

Professional Memberships

American Law and Economics Association
Public Choice Society
Law and Society Association
American Political Science Association
Midwest Political Science Association
American Bar Association

Invited Presentations

Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of California at Berkeley, University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas, Northwestern University, Cornell University, California Institute of Technology

Research & Teaching Interests

Administrative Law, Legislation, Environmental Law, Torts, Law and Politics, Risk and Risk Regulation, Law and Economics