Jonathan Gould is the Class of 1965 Professorship of Law at UC Berkeley. 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 or is forthcoming in the flagship law reviews at Harvard, Yale, N.Y.U., Virginia, Chicago, Michigan, Georgetown, and Vanderbilt, as well as various specialty and peer-review journals.
Gould’s scholarship includes the following:
- Constitutional law and theory: Puzzles of Progressive Constitutionalism (2022), Structural Biases in Structural Constitutional Law (2022, w/D. Pozen), Codifying Constitutional Norms (2021), and Workarounds in American Public Law (forthcoming 2025, w/D. Farber & M. Stephenson).
- Congress and legislative procedure: Law Within Congress (2020), The Law of Legislative Representation (2021); Democratizing the Senate from Within (2022, w/K. Shepsle & M. Stephenson); A Republic of Spending (forthcoming 2024), and The Senate’s Shadow Doctrine (2024).
- Administrative law: The Politics of Deference (2022, w/G. Elinson), and Cost-Benefit Analysis in Polarized Times (2023)
In Gould’s first year at Berkeley, his article Law Within Congress won the Association of American Law Schools’ Scholarly Papers Prize for best work by a faculty member in their first five years of 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. Gould has served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and NYU School of Law.
Gould’s scholarship is available on SSRN.
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University (2020)
J.D., Harvard Law School (2016)
A.M., Harvard University (2014)
A.B., Harvard College (2010)
Jonathan S Gould is not teaching any Law courses in Fall 2024.
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Fall 2023 | 225.11 sec. 001 | Statutory Interpretation and Legislation Workshop | View Teaching Evaluation | 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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