University of San Diego School of Law Welcomes Natalie Jacewicz and Adam Kern to the Law Faculty

SAN DIEGO (April 8, 2024) – The University of San Diego (USD) School of Law is delighted to announce the addition of two new faculty members. Adam Kern, JD, PhD, and Natalie Lauren Jacewicz, JD, will join the faculty at the start of the Fall 2024 semester.

Natalie Lauren Jacewicz is currently a Furman Fellow at the NYU School of Law, where she studies administrative law and environmental law. Previously, she taught natural resources law at NYU as an adjunct professor. Professor Jacewicz’s scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and the Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law.

Professor Jacewicz previously worked on environmental policy and appellate litigation as a Legal Fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity. She clerked for the Hon. Randolph D. Moss of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the Hon. David S. Tatel of the D.C. Circuit. Before her career in law, Professor Jacewicz worked for the Boston Consulting Group.

Professor Jacewicz holds a JD from NYU School of Law, where she was a Furman Academic Scholar, a Lederman Law and Economics Fellow, and an articles editor for the NYU Law Review. She received a graduate degree in science journalism from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned an AB in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University.

Currently, Adam Kern is a Furman Fellow at the NYU School of Law, where he studies tax law, tax policy, and law and philosophy. Professor Kern’s scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the New York University Law Review; Tax Law Review; Tax Notes; Philosophy & Public Affairs; Science; Politics, Philosophy & Economics; and Analysis.

Professor Kern also recently served as a Policy Advisor in the Office of Tax Policy of the U.S. Department of Treasury. He clerked for the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and practiced as a tax associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.

Professor Kern holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, a JD from NYU School of Law (where he was a Furman Academic Scholar), a BPhil from Oxford University, and an AB in Philosophy from Harvard University. 

About the University of San Diego School of Law

Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 41st nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.