Jacob Schriner-Briggs
Assistant Professor of Law
Bio
Jacob Schriner-Briggs is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Cleveland State University College of Law where he teaches Constitutional Law, First Amendment Rights, and Criminal Procedure. Professor Schriner-Briggs’s scholarship focuses on the First Amendment freedoms of speech and press; constitutional interpretation; the intersections between free speech, constitutionalism, and democracy; and the ways First Amendment theory and doctrine relate to real-world institutions. His recent work has explored how historicist modes of constitutional interpretation interact with freedom of expression; how democratic backsliding limits the capacity of courts to enforce the First Amendment; and how contemporary constitutional practice weakens the link between free speech and democracy. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the U.C. Irvine Law Review, the First Amendment Law Review, and the Journal of Free Speech Law, among others.
Professor Schriner-Briggs is an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP). Before joining Cleveland State, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, a Resident Fellow at the ISP, and an associate in the Media and Entertainment Group of Ballard Spahr LLP. He has presented his research at the Yale Law School Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference, the Constitutional Law Colloquium, the Democracy Works-in-Progress Conference at the Michigan State University College of Law, and the Junior Scholars Conference at the Northeastern University School of Law.
Professor Schriner-Briggs is licensed to practice law in the state of New York. He holds a JD from Yale Law School and a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from Youngstown State University.