Gary J. Jacobsohn

Interests

Biography

Professor Jacobsohn's interests and work lie at the intersection of constitutional theory and comparative constitutionalism. He has recently completed a book on constitutional identity, which explores this idea through an examination of its expressions in India, Ireland, Israel, and the United States. 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.

Among Professor Jacobsohn\'s publications are: Pragmatism, Statesmanship and the Supreme Court (Cornell University Press, 1977), The Supreme Court and the Decline of Constitutional Aspiration (Rowman and Littlefield, 1986), Apple of Gold: Constitutionalism in Israel and the United States (Princeton University Press, 1993), The Wheel of Law: India\'s Secularism in Comparative Constitutional Context (Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press-India, 2003), and (with Donald Kommers and John Finn) American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009). His book, The Disharmonic Constitution: A Comparative Inquiry Into Constitutional Identity, will be published by Harvard University Press in 2010.