Jacob Eisler

James Edmund and Margaret Elizabeth Hennessey Corry Professor @Florida State University College Of Law

Tallahassee, FL, US

Professor Jacob Eisler is joining the FSU College of Law during the summer of 2023. Eisler teaches and researches in the areas of constitutional and election law, with a focus on democratic process, theories of just representation, and anti-corruption. He is the author of “The Law of Freedom: The Supreme Court and Democracy” (Cambridge University Press 2023) and co-editor of “Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law” (Cambridge University Press 2021). He has also authored numerous scholarly articles, which have been published in journals including the University of Illinois Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, and the UC Davis Law Review, and he has published several book chapters in edited volumes.Eisler comes to FSU Law from Southampton Law School in Southampton, United Kingdom, where he has served as an associate professor of public law since 2018. His teaching at Southampton was widely commended, most recently with the student-nominated Most Engaging Lecturer Award in 2022. He also has been actively engaged in reform of democratic process. His evidentiary submissions to U.K. parliamentary committees have been noted in official reports, and his scholarly writing has been cited in briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to joining Southampton, Eisler was a college lecturer and Yates Glazebrook fellow in law at Jesus College at the University of Cambridge. Before entering academia, Eisler practiced law at Allen & Overy LLP and Herbert Smith LLP in London, and clerked for the Honorable Judge Gerard E. Lynch, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City.See https://law.fsu.edu/faculty-staff/jacob-eisler for a list of publications and more details.

Harvard University

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Political Science

Williams College

BA, Political Science; English

Harvard Law School

JD, Law

University of Cambridge

Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Political Thought and Intellectual History