Jacob Gersen

Professor of Law

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, 2005-2010
• Samuel Williston Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 2009 (Spring term)
• Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, 2010-2011
• Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 2011

Education

• Brown University A.B. 1996, Public Policy
• University of Chicago M.A. 1998, Political Science
• University of Chicago Ph.D. 2001, Political Science
• University of Chicago Law School J.D. 2004

Research Interests

• Administrative Law
• Legislation
• Constitutional Theory
• Law and Politics

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Administrative Law
• Congress
• Constitutional Theory
• Executive Branch
• Legislation

Representative Publications

• Gersen, Jacob. "Unbundled Powers," 96 Virginia Law Review 301 (2010).
  
• Gersen, Jacob & Eric Posner. "Soft Law: Lessons from Congressional Practice," 61 Stanford Law Review 573 (2008).
  
• Gersen, Jacob & Anne Joseph O'Connell. "Deadlines in Administrative Law," 156 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 923 (2008).
  
• Gersen, Jacob & Eric Posner. "Timing Rules and Legal Institutions," 121 Harvard Law Review 543 (2007).
  
• Gersen, Jacob & Adrian Vermeule. "Chevron as a Voting Rule," 116 Yale Law Journal 676 (2007).
  
• Gersen, Jacob. "Temporary Legislation," 74 University of Chicago Law Review 247 (2007).
  

Bibliography

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