Faculty

Areas of Interest:
Public Law, American Politics, Inter-Branch Relations

Biography:
After receiving his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School, Jeb practiced as a commercial litigator in Boston and San Francisco. In 1994, he left the practice of law to pursue a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, he won the Peter Odegard Memorial Award for the most promising scholar, an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for teaching excellence, and numerous fellowships, including a Charles Atwood Kofoid Eugenics Fellowship, a Henry Robert Braden Scholarship, and a Phi Beta Kappa Research Fellowship. In 2002, his dissertation won special recognition from the Law & Society Association, which described his work as "magnificent." He has published on the politics of reforming the American legal system and voting process, and has two books forthcoming: Overruled? Pluralism, Court-Congress Relations and Legislative Overrides in an Age of Statutes from Stanford University Press and a co-edited volume entitled Putting the Pieces Together: American Policy-Making from an Inter-Branch Perspective from Georgetown University Press. In Spring 2003, Jeb was one of five political scientists nationwide to receive a Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship to study health policy in the United States. He will be on leave from 2003 to 2005.