Jeffrey Abramson
Professor — Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor, Fellow of the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Chair in Government and Professor of Law
Contact
- E-mail: jabramson@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512 232 6224
- Office: JON 6.264 and by appt. of MEZ 3.148
- Office Hours: W, TH 12:30-2
- Campus Mail Code: A1800
Biography
Courses taught: Jeffrey Abramson teaches in the areas of constitutional law, civil liberties, the jury, and political theory. He is the author of We, the Jury: the Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy (Harvard 2000) as well as numerous law review articles. Professor Abramson teaches courses in the Department of Government in political theory.
Awards/Honors:
Professor Abramson clerked for Rose Bird, the late Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, and served as an assistant district attorney in Massachusetts. He has recently completed an assignment as a court-appointed jury expert for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Massachusetts.
Recent Publications:
2009. Minerva's Owl: The Tradition of Western Political Thought. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
2014. Second Order Diversity Revisited.
2015. Four Models of Jury Democracy. Chicago- Kent Law Review.
