Summary

Professor Leslie Gielow Jacobs is one of the law school’s preeminent scholars. A former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., she has authored a substantial and important body of scholarship on constitutional law, specifically free speech and government speech, and on issues of bioterrorism and national security. Her articles have appeared in law journals at many of the nation’s most prestigious law schools. She is the Director of the Capital Center for Public Law & Policy.