Jonathan Green

Assistant Professor of Law

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Jonathan Green is a historian of eighteenth-century political and legal thought. He’s interested in the history of constitutionalism, theories of interpretation, and the concept of judicial power. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Notre Dame Law Review, the Florida Law Review, the Journal of the History of Ideas, and Modern Intellectual History, among others. In 2026, he received the Mark Tushnet Prize from the American Association of Law Schools’ Comparative Law Section for his article on the history of statutory interpretation in England.

Prior to joining the Levin College of Law, Professor Green taught at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and was a Harry A. Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He previously clerked for Judge Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked as a litigation associate at DLA Piper in Philadelphia.

Professor Green holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he was a joint recipient of the Prince Consort & Thirwall Prize, awarded annually for the best dissertation in the Cambridge History Faculty. He also received his MPhil from Cambridge, and earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Northwestern University.

At Florida, Professor Green teaches Civil Procedure and leads the law school’s Legal History Colloquium.