Meet the Fellows

Jennifer Nou

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship awarded in 2005 to pursue a JD in Law at Yale University.

Jennifer Nou is the child of immigrants from South Korea.

About Jennifer Nou

JENNIFER NOU is a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Jennifer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to parents of Korean descent, who were both naturalized in 1980.

Jennifer graduated in 2008 from Yale Law School, where she served on the Yale Law Journal and as a Coker Fellow. Before law school, she received a BA from Yale University with a double major in political science and economics, where she graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Truman Scholarship. At Oxford University, she completed her MPhil in politics with distinction, where she was a Marshall Scholar.

As an undergraduate, Jennifer was the founder of Yale End Domestic Violence, the outreach coordinator of the Yale Women's Center and the vice president of the Yale Mock Trial Association.

After graduation, she was a law clerk to Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then to Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States. From August 2010 to December 2011, Jennifer worked at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs as a policy analyst and special assistant to Administrator Cass Sunstein.

Jennifer's primary research and teaching interests include administrative law, election law, legislation and statutory interpretation, and torts. Other interests include federal courts, environmental law, welfare law, and contracts.