Jacob is the NYU Furman Center’s Legal Fellow. His research uses empirical methods to evaluate the gap between the law’s promises and its practice. He is most interested in how the law entrenches inequalities—from the ways municipal boundaries shield property wealth and exacerbate racial segregation to the ways administrative procedures advantage affluent interests. At the Furman Center, these interests have led him to evaluate reforms to state zoning policy, housing court, and affordable housing lotteries. Before working at the Furman Center, Jacob advised on antitrust and consumer protection matters at the Federal Trade Commission, analyzed evidence of racial gerrymandering for the ACLU of Colorado, and assisted with statutory interpretation claims for the ACLU’s brief in Bostock v. Clayton County. Jacob received his JD from Yale Law School in 2025 and expects to receive his PhD in Social Policy and Government from Harvard in 2026. He also holds bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Mathematical & Computational Sciences from Stanford University.
