Bradley P. Jacob, "The 17th Amendment: Is Voting Ever a Bad Thing?"

With commentary by Nicholas Stephanopoulos

Professor Jacob has been a law professor at Regent University since January 2001. Prior to coming to Regent, his career began in a big-firm law practice and included years as a religious liberty lawyer, in Christian ministry leadership, and in Christian higher education. 

Most of his teaching and scholarship is in the area of constitutional law. His published articles include "Griswold and the Defense of Traditional Marriage,” in the North Dakota Law Review; “Will the Real Constitutional Originalist Please Stand Up?,” in the Creighton Law Review; “Back to Basics: Constitutional Meaning and ‘Tradition,’” in the Texas Tech Law Review; and “Free Exercise in the ‘Lobbying Nineties,’” in the Nebraska Law Review.

Nicholas Stephanopoulos’s research and teaching interests include election law, constitutional law, legislation, administrative law, comparative law, and local government law. He has been named to the National Law Journal’s “Chicago’s 40 Under 40.” Before joining the Law School faculty, he was an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School. He previously worked in the Washington, D.C. office of Jenner & Block LLP, where his practice focused on complex federal litigation, appellate advocacy (including ten Supreme Court briefs), and election law (particularly redistricting and campaign finance). Before entering private practice, he clerked for Judge Raymond C. Fisher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. A 2006 graduate of Yale Law School, Stephanopoulos also holds an MPhil in European Studies from Cambridge University and an AB in government from Harvard College, graduating summa cum laude in 2001. 

Presented on October 26, 2016, by the Federalist Society.