Jacob Eisler

Jacob Eisler joined Florida State University College of Law in 2023 as the James Edmund and Margaret Elizabeth Hennessey Corry Professor. Professor Eisler researches in the areas of constitutional law, election law, criminal law (focused on anti-corruption law), legal theory, and law and technology. He applies moral and political theory to questions of judicial reasoning and institutional design, with a focus on the relationship between legal doctrine, democratic self-rule, and the conditions necessary for political liberty. He is the author of "The Law of Freedom: The Supreme Court and Democracy" (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and his scholarship is published or forthcoming in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including the Emory Law Journal, the UC Davis Law Review, the Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and the Election Law Journal. He is regularly interviewed or quoted in leading media outlets nationally and internationally on matters related to the law and politics.

At Florida State, Professor Eisler teaches Constitutional Law I (Structure), Constitutional Law II (Rights), and Criminal Law. He has past experience teaching subjects including tort law, jurisprudence, and EU law. Prior to joining Florida State, Professor Eisler taught at Jesus College, the University of Cambridge as the Yates Glazebrook Fellow and college lecturer in Law, and the University of Southampton as an associate professor (Reader) in Public Law. He was the Mid-Career Fellow at the Baldy Center at the University of Buffalo for the Fall of 2024, a competitively selected residential fellowship. Before entering the legal academy, he clerked on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch in New York City and practiced as an international capital markets attorney in London with Allen & Overy and Herbert Smith Freehills. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his Ph.D. from the Harvard University Department of Government, his MPhil in political thought and intellectual history from the University of Cambridge, and his B.A. in political science and English from Williams College. Professor Eisler is New York bar qualified.