Biography

Education

• B. A. , Augustana College
• J.D. , William Mitchell College of Law
• LL.M. , London School of Economics

Employment

• Co-Director, Rule of Law Program, Stanford Law School (1999-present)
• Senior Research Scholar (2008–present), and Affiliated Faculty (2004-present), Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University
• Senior Advisor for Governance and Law, The Asia Foundation (1999-present)
• Frequent senior advisor/consultant to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank
• Country Representative, The Asia Foundation, Pakistan (1993-99)
• Deputy Country Representative, The Asia Foundation, Philippines (1989-1993)
• Senior Fulbright Lecturer, University of Colombo Law Faculty and the Open University Law Faculty, Sri Lanka (1985-1989)

Courses

• Statebuilding and the Rule of Law
• Advisor to SLS-based law and international development projects: the Afghanistan Legal Education Project, the Bhutan Law and Policy Project, and the soon-to-be launched Timor Leste Legal Education Project
• Law and Development in India
• International Development and the Rule of Law
• Islam and the Rule of Law
• Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (undergraduate)

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Law and Development in India
• State-Building and the Rule of Law Workshop

Programs

• Rule of Law Program, Co-Director

Publications & Cases

• William Cole and Erik G. Jensen, Democracy, Human Rights, Governance and the Rule of Law in Asia, in Order and Institutional Architecture in Asia, Bates Gill and Michael Green, eds., New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
• Erik G. Jensen, Justice and the Rule of Law, in Building States to Build Peace, Charles Call and Vanessa Wyeth, eds., Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2008.
• Erik G. Jensen and Thomas C. Heller, eds., Beyond Common Knowledge: Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law (Stanford University Press: 2003)
• Erik G. Jensen, Confronting Misconceptions and Acknowledging Imperfections: A Response To Khaled Abou El Fadl's 'Islam And Democracy, Fordham International Law Review (2003)