Jonathan Gould

Jonathan Gould

Jonathan Gould

Jonathan Gould is a PhD candidate in Harvard’s Department of Government and a member of Harvard’s coordinated JD/PhD program. His research sits at the intersection of political theory, public law, and political science, with a focus on governmental institutions in the United States. His dissertation, Political Representation and Public Law, examines the mechanisms of legislative representation. In particular, it evaluates the oft-overlooked legal and procedural rules that structure how representatives interact with each other and with the citizenry. Gould received a JD from Harvard Law School, where he served as President of the Harvard Law Review. He has designed and taught an interdisciplinary seminar on public law at Harvard College and has served as a teaching assistant at Harvard Law School. He has worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Judge David Barron on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and he has spent summers at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and at the Public Citizen Litigation Group. Gould is a graduate of Harvard College, where he received an AB in Social Studies.

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