Jay Lefkowitz
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Academic Positions
Alongside his litigation career, Jay Lefkowitz maintained a longstanding connection to legal education. He taught at Columbia Law School as an adjunct professor, lectured at universities across the country on constitutional law and public policy, and contributed to academic and professional legal forums — bringing the perspective of a practicing Supreme Court advocate into the classroom.
Columbia Law School - Adjunct Professor
Jay Lefkowitz served as an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, where he taught a seminar on the Supreme Court built around a simulation method: students sit as two nine-member "courts," each assuming the role of a sitting Justice to hear and decide cases pending before the actual Court.
He also taught a Columbia Law seminar on presidential decision-making, drawing on his service as a senior advisor to two presidents.
University Lectures & Academic Engagements
Jay lectured frequently at universities on constitutional law, appellate practice, and public policy — including Columbia Law School's Center for Constitutional Governance and Dean's Visiting Speaker Series, Columbia University's Kraft Lecture Series, George Mason University School of Law's Judicial Symposium on Civil Justice Issues, the Hertog Political Studies Program, and a Harvard–Princeton–Stanford conference on American conservatism. He was also a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
Scholarly & Legal Writing
His writing has appeared in academic and professional legal forums, including the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance ("Director Independence: Interplay Between Delaware Law and Exchange Rules," 2013) and The Public Interest, alongside decades of essays on law, policy, and religion in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Commentary.