Jeffrey R. Lax

Jeffrey R. Lax is a professor of political science at Columbia University whose primary field is judicial politics and law. As an Alliance short-term visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he proposed a course evaluating law and courts as political institutions and judges as political actors, using the U.S. federal courts as a case study in comparison with other legal systems, and covering judicial review, judicial power and Supreme Court decision-making.