Jennifer Nou

Jennifer Nou is an American legal scholar who is currently a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. She writes and teaches in the areas of administrative law, regulatory policy and constitutional law.^[1]

Education and career[]

Nou graduated from Yale University with a B.A. summa cum laude in 2002, majoring in economics and political science. She later studied at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship and graduated in 2004 with a M.Phil. in politics with distinction.^[2] Nou was a Legal Intern for the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York Civil Division during the summer 2006.^[3] In 2008, she graduated with a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as projects editor on the Yale Law Journal.^[1]

After graduating from law school, Nou clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court.^[2] Between 2010 and 2011, she served as a policy analyst and special assistant to the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the time, Cass Sunstein.^[1]

Nou joined the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School in 2012 as a public law fellow and later as an assistant professor in 2013.^[2] In 2018, she was appointed as a tenured professor of law. Her research focuses on administrative law, legislation, legal interpretation, and election law.^[1]

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