Jeff Pojanowski

Associate Professor of Law


Office: 3113 Eck Hall of Law
Phone: 574.631.4887
Fax: 574.631.8078
Email: Pojanowski@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Debi McGuigan Jones

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Jeffrey Pojanowski joined the faculty and community of Notre Dame Law School in 2010. He teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, jurisprudence, and torts. He has published articles in the Northwestern University Law Review and the UCLA Law Review and has work forthcoming in the Texas Law Review and in Jurisprudence. At present, his scholarship focuses on statutory interpretation and legal theory.

Prof. Pojanowski earned his A.B. in Public Policy with highest honors from Princeton University and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2004, where he was Articles Co-Chair for the Harvard Law Review. After law school, he served as a law clerk to then-Judge John Roberts on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the United States. He then practiced law with Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in appellate litigation and administrative-law matters.

Courses Taught

LAW60901, Torts
LAW70315, Administrative Law
LAW70815, Jurisprudence

Scholarship

Statutes in Common Law Court, 91 Tex. L. Rev. __ (2013) (forthcoming).

Legal Thought in Enlightenment’s Wake: A Review of Steven D. Smith’s The Disenchantment of
of Secular Discourse, 4 JURISPRUDENCE __ (2013) (forthcoming).

Administrative Change, 59 UCLA Law Review 112 (2011) (with Randy J. Kozel).

Reason and Reasonableness in Review of Agency Decisions, 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. 799 (2010).

Areas of Expertise

  • Administrative Law
  • Federal Courts
  • Jurisprudence
  • Statutory Interpretation
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • Torts

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