Associate Professor of Law
Jason Marisam teaches constitutional law, administrative law, and civil procedure. His research focuses on voting rights, election law, and administrative law. His scholarship has appeared in the Election Law Journal, Administrative Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, and Arizona State Law Journal, among others. His article on the first nationwide election held during a pandemic, Judging the 1918 Election, was widely cited and discussed during the run up to the 2020 election.
Jason is a 2008 graduate of Harvard Law School and former editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 2021, Minnesota Lawyer honored him as an Attorney of the Year for his work on the 2020 election, when he was an assistant attorney general for the State of Minnesota. In 2022, Minnesota Lawyer honored him as an Attorney of the Year for his work on the constitutionality of Minnesota’s pardon system.
Employment
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Associate Professor, 2022 –
Minnesota Attorney General’s Office
Assistant Attorney General, Solicitor General’s division, 2016–22
Judge Joan Ericksen, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Law Clerk, August 2014–16
Hamline University School of Law
Assistant Professor, 2012–14; Visiting Assistant Professor, 2011–12
Harvard Law School
Kauffman Legal Fellow in Residence, 2009–11
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Boston
Associate, 2008–09
Education
J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, completed first year curriculum at Boston University School of Law
Princeton University, B.A., History, June 2000
Bar memberships
State of Minnesota
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
First Circuit Court of Appeals
Awards and recognition
Minnesota Lawyer magazine Attorney of the Year, 2021, 2022
Hamline University School of Law Professor of the Year, 2014
