Gary Jacobsohn

H. Malcolm MacDonald Professor in Constitutional & Comparative Law

The University of Texas at Austin


In 2004, Professor Jacobsohn became a member of the Government Department at UT Austin after thirty-three years at Williams College where he was, most recently, the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Political Science. His interests and work lie at the intersection of constitutional theory and comparative constitutionalism. He has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a past President of the New England Political Science Association, and has served as co-editor of the Rowman and Littlefield series on Studies in American Constitutionalism.


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