Jessica Eisen
Jessica Eisen
S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Fellow, Harvard Law School
Graduate Scholar, Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program
jeisen at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Dissertation
“Animals in the Modern State”
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Law and Social Movements with Professor Martha Minow, Harvard Law School, Overall Faculty Supervisor
- Animal Law with Professor Kristen Stilt, Harvard Law School
- Comparative Constitutional Law with Professor Vicki Jackson, Harvard Law School
- Feminist Legal Theory with Professor Catharine MacKinnon, University of Michigan Law School
Additional Research Interests
- Constitutional Law
- Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law
- Labor and Employment Law
- Comparative Law
- Food Law & Policy
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2014-Present
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. Program 2013-2014 (requirements fulfilled, degree waived)
- Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada, LL.M., 2014
- University of Toronto Faculty of Law, J.D., 2009
- Barnard College, B.A. (Political Science and Human Rights Studies), 2004
Academic Appointments and Fellowships
- Osgoode Hall Law School Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, Visiting Researcher, 2017-2018
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow, 2014-2018
- Harvard Law School Graduate Program Fellow, Legal Research, Writing and Analysis I Teaching Fellow, 2014-Present
- Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program Graduate Scholar, 2015-Present
- Harvard Law School Graduate Program Fellow, LL.M. Advising Program Fellow, 2015-Present
- Harvard Law School Summer Academic Fellow, 2015
- Harvard Law School Graduate Program Fellow, LL.M. Advisor, 2014-2015
Representative Publications
- Jessica Eisen, Animals in the Constitutional State, ICON (forthcoming, 2018)
- Jessica Eisen, Beyond Rights and Welfare: Democracy, Dialogue, and the Animal Welfare Act, 51 U. MICH J. L. REFORM (forthcoming, 2018)
- Jessica Eisen, Milk and Meaning: Puzzles in Posthumanism, in MAKING MILK: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF OUR PRIMARY FOOD (Mathilde Cohen and Yoriko Otomo eds., forthcoming 2017)
- Jessica Eisen, Grounding Equality in Social Relations: Suspect Classification, Analogous Grounds and Relational Theory, 42 QUEENS L.J. 41 (2017)
- Jessica Eisen & Kristen Stilt, Protection and Status of Animals, in THE MAX PLANCK ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann & Rüdiger Wolfrum eds., 2016)
- Jessica Eisen, Perspectives on the Global: A Reflection on Twining’s Globalisation and Legal Scholarship, 4 TRANSNAT’L L. THEORY 502 (2014)
- Jessica Eisen, On Shaky Grounds: Poverty and Analogous Grounds under the Charter, 2 CAN. J. POVERTY L. 1 (2013)
- Jessica Eisen, Liberating Animal Law: Breaking Free from Human-Use Typologies, 17 ANIMAL L. 59 (2010)
- Jess Eisen, Rethinking Affirmative Action Analysis in the Wake of Kapp: A Limitations Interpretation Approach, 6 J.L. & EQUALITY 1 (2008)
Last Updated: July 13, 2017