{"id":3704,"date":"2026-09-02T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/?page_id=3704"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:03:12","slug":"jacob-eisler-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/fellows-scholars\/research-fellows\/jacob-eisler-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Eisler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jacob Eisler is the James Edmund and Margaret Elizabeth Hennessey Corry Professor at Florida<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3665 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Jacob-Eisler-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Jacob-Eisler-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Jacob-Eisler-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Jacob-Eisler-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Jacob-Eisler-1080x868.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Jacob-Eisler-500x399.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Jacob-Eisler-740x591.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Jacob-Eisler-980x783.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Jacob-Eisler.jpg 1087w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> State University College of Law, where he specializes in constitutional law and law of democratic process. He received his JD from Harvard Law School and his PhD in Political Science from the Harvard University Department of Government, an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge and a BA in English and Political Science from Williams College. He previously served as the Yates-Glazebrook Fellow in Law at Jesus College Cambridge, and as Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Southampton Law School. He is the author of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/law-of-freedom\/B82B11848D63DDE12EEA9126D749B0EC\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Law of Freedom: The Supreme Court and Democracy<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Cambridge University Press, 2023; recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the AALS Election Law Section).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Eisler is the James Edmund and Margaret Elizabeth Hennessey Corry Professor at Florida State University College of Law, where he specializes in constitutional law and law of democratic process. He received his JD from Harvard Law School and his PhD in Political Science from the Harvard University Department of Government, an MPhil in Political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14143,"featured_media":0,"parent":2813,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3704","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3704\/revisions\/3705"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}