Jonathan Gould is an Assistant Professor at Berkeley Law School. His research focuses on the relationship between politics and law, with special attention to Congress and the legislative process. In exploring these topics, he draws on a variety of methods and literatures, including from public law, political theory, and political science.
Gould’s scholarship has been published in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Virginia Law Review, N.Y.U. Law Review, and Georgetown Law Journal, among other journals. In his first year at Berkeley, his article Law Within Congress won the Association of American Law Schools’ 2020 Scholarly Papers Prize for best work by a faculty member in their first five years of law teaching.
Gould received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as President of the Harvard Law Review, and his Ph.D. from Harvard’s Department of Government. He has worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Judge David Barron on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and at the Public Citizen Litigation Group.
Gould has served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (2022) and will serve as a visiting professor at NYU Law School (2024).
Recent Scholarship
- Law Within Congress, 129 Yale L.J. 1946 (2020)
- Codifying Constitutional Norms, 105 Geo. L.J. 703 (2021)
- The Law of Legislative Representation, 107 Va. L. Rev. 765 (2021)
- Rethinking Swing Voters, 74 Vand. L. Rev. 85 (2021)
- Democratizing the Senate From Within, 13 J.L. Analysis 502 (2021) (w/K. Shepsle & M. Stephenson)
- Puzzles of Progressive Constitutionalism, 135 Harv. L. Rev. 2054 (2022)
- Structural Biases in Structural Constitutional Law, 97 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 59 (2022) (w/D. Pozen)
- The Politics of Deference, 75 Vand. L. Rev. 475 (2022) (w/G. Elinson)
- Cost-Benefit Analysis in Polarized Times, 74 Admin. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023)
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University (2020)
J.D., Harvard Law School (2016)
A.M., Harvard University (2014)
A.B., Harvard College (2010)
Jonathan Gould is teaching the following course in Fall 2023:
• 225.11 sec. 001 - Statutory Interpretation and Legislation Workshop
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Spring 2023 | 210.2B sec. 001 | Workshop in Law, Philosophy & Political Theory | View Teaching Evaluation | 220G sec. 001 | Public Law and Policy Workshop | View Teaching Evaluation | 225 sec. 001 | Legislation and Statutory Interpretation | View Teaching Evaluation |
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