Jonathan Glater joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2021. His research has focused on the ways that law promotes and limits access to education, especially higher education, and the impact that education debt has on educational opportunities. Glater is a faculty director of the Center on Consumer Law and Economic Justice at Berkeley Law. With Dalié Jiménez, he is also co-founder and co-director of the Student Loan Law Initiative, an interdisciplinary partnership with the nonprofit organization Protect Borrowers, devoted to study of the effects of student debt. In 2023 he was named a member of the California Civil Rights Council, a volunteer body tasked with developing regulations that implement California’s civil rights laws.
Recent publications include Doctrinal Siege: Higher Education in Judicial Crosshairs (Syracuse L. Rev. 2024), The Elision of Causation in the 2023 Affirmative Action Cases (Journal of College and University Law 2023), Qualified Sovereignty (with Kate Sablosky Elengold) (Wash. L. Rev. 2022), and Pandemic Possibilities: Rethinking Measures of Merit (UCLA L. Rev. 2021). He is also coauthor with Amy Gajda and Raquel Muñiz on a casebook, The Law and Higher Education: Cases and Materials on Colleges in Court. Courses taught include Education Law & Policy, Criminal Law, Law in Media, and Disability Law.
Education
B.A., Swarthmore College
M.A., Yale University
J.D., Yale Law School
Jonathan D Glater is not teaching any Law courses in Spring 2026.
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Fall 2026 | 226.14 sec. 1 | Law in Media | Fall 2025 | 221.6 sec. 001 | Education Law and Policy Seminar | View Teaching Evaluation | 230 sec. 002 | Criminal Law |
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