Wickard v. Filburn
Harvard Student Chapter
Speakers:
- Professor Gary Lawson, Boston University Law
- Professor Jacob Gersen, Harvard Law
Speakers:
- Professor Gary Lawson, Boston University Law
- Professor Jacob Gersen, Harvard Law
Harvard Student Chapter
Speakers:
Speakers:
Sidley Austin Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Jacob Gersen is Sidley Austin Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Affiliate Professor in the Department of Government, and Director of the Food Law Lab, which supports academic research on the legal treatment of food in society. He is also the co-editor of Food Law & Policy. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2011, he was Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and a J.D. from the University of Chicago, and an A.B. in Public Policy from Brown University. His main areas of research and teaching are administrative law, food law, regulation, arbitration, campus sexual misconduct, torts, remedies, and constitutional theory. In addition to publications in law reviews and political science journals, his work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, and Forbes.
Professor Gersen has served as an expert in confidential international arbitration matters, providing testimony related to the structure and content of federal regulation, administrative law, and tort law. He serves as a consulting expert in disputes involving federal administrative agencies, Title IX proceedings in higher education, and food litigation. He also occasionally acts as counsel in matters ranging from defamation, to entertainment law, to contract disputes.
Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Professor Gary Lawson joined the University of Florida Levin College of Law faculty on July 1, 2024, after twenty-four years at Boston University School of Law and eleven years at Northwestern University School of Law. While at Boston University, he was named a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in 2022 – the highest faculty honor within the university. He has authored or co-authored nine editions of a textbook on administrative law, a textbook on constitutional law, five university press books, one popular press book, and more than one hundred scholarly articles on topics ranging from aspects of constitutional theory and history to the proof of legal propositions. His works have been cited in more than twenty opinions of United States Supreme Court justices. He is a founding member, and serves on the Board of Directors, of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution.