Jacob E. Gersen is an American legal scholar.
He is the Sidley Austin Professor of Law and affiliate professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught since 2011.
He is the founder and director of the Harvard Food Law Lab.
[2] Gersen graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in public policy from Brown University in 1996.
[1] After clerking for Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from 2004 to 2005,[3] Gersen returned to the University of Chicago Law School as an assistant professor.