Jonathan Green
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Phone: 480-884-2882
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111 East Taylor Street Room 562 Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Jonathan Green writes about the history of political and legal thought. He is especially interested in the history of constitutionalism, theories of interpretation, and the concept of judicial power. His research has been published in the Arizona State Law Journal, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Modern Intellectual History, and the Historical Journal.
Prior to joining the ASU faculty in 2024, Professor Green was a Harry A. Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago. He previously clerked for Judge Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked as a litigation associate at DLA Piper in Philadelphia.
Professor Green holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he was a joint recipient of Prince Consort & Thirwall Prize, awarded annually for the best dissertation in the Cambridge History Faculty. He also received his MPhil from Cambridge, and earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Northwestern University.
Professor Green teaches Civil Procedure and Statutory Interpretation, and leads ASU's Legal History Colloquium.
- J.D., Yale Law School (2020).
- PhD History, University of Cambridge (2017).
- MPhil Political Thought and Intellectual History), University of Cambridge (2013).
- B.A. summa cum laude, American Studies and German, Northwestern University (2012).
- What the Declaration Didn't Do, 101 Notre Dame Law Review __ (forthcoming 2026).
- Tradition and Discretion, 77 Florida Law Review __ (forthcoming 2025).
- The Misunderstood History of Interpretation in England, 56 Arizona State Law Journal 911 (2024).
- Fiat Iustitia, Pereat Mundus: Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Gentz, and the Possibility of Prudential Enlightenment, 14 Modern Intellectual History 35 (2017).
- John Adams’s Montesquieuean Moment: Enlightened Historicism in the Discourses on Davila, 77 The Journal of the History of Ideas 227 (2016).
- Friedrich Gentz’s Translation of Burke’s Reflections, 57 Historical Journal 639 (2014).
Courses
2026 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| LAW 791 | Seminar |
| LAW 691 | Seminar |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
| LAW 518 | Civil Procedure |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| LAW 691 | Seminar |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
| LAW 518 | Civil Procedure |