Jonathan Wolfson

Chief Legal Officer and Policy Director, Cicero Institute

Topics: Administrative Law & Regulation • Education Policy • Election Law • Environmental & Energy Law • Federalism • Federalist Society • Financial Services • Founding Era & History • Jurisprudence • Labor & Employment Law • Law & Economics • Litigation • Politics • Regulatory Transparency Project • Separation of Powers • State Governments • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Financial Services & E-Commerce • Environmental Law & Property Rights • State Constitutions

Jonathan Wolfson is the Chief Legal Officer and Policy Director at the Cicero Institute. Before joining Cicero, he led the Policy Office at the U.S. Department of Labor where he managed DOL's deregulatory efforts and oversaw DOL's internal policy development think tank. He previously was a litigator and regulatory attorney at an international law firm representing clients before state and federal courts across the country.  Following law school he served as a law clerk to The Honorable Edith Brown Clement of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  Before law school, Jonathan was a policy analyst at the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Jonathan received an A.B. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an Olin Law and Economic Fellow and won the John M. Olin Prize for best original law and economics research.

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