Jay D. Wexler

Jay D. Wexler (born April 12, 1969) is an American legal scholar known for being the first to study laughter at the Supreme Court of the United States. His work also focuses on church-state issues, constitutional law, and environmental law. Wexler is a professor of law at the Boston University School of Law. Wexler earned a B.A., magna cum laude in East Asian Studies from Harvard University in 1991, his M.A. in religious studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1993, and his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1997, where he was a notes editor on the Stanford Law Review and a Semifinalist in the Kirkwood Moot Court competition. After law school, Wexler clerked for Judge David Tatel on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court of the United States. He was an attorney advisor at the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel from 1999 to 2001. Wexler began teaching at Boston University School of Law in 2001 and became a tenured professor in 2007.

Wexler has appeared on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and On Point, CNBC, C-SPAN, State of Belief, the Brian Lehrer Show, New Hampshire Public Radio's Word of Mouth, and has been featured in Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath and Hail Satan? He is admitted to the bar in Illinois and Massachusetts.