Research Bio

Jonathan Glater is a legal scholar whose research investigates access to education, debt, and inequality in higher education policy. He is best known for his work on student debt, financial aid, and the intersection of law and economic inequality in the U.S. education system. Glater’s research encompasses education law, economics, and social justice to analyze how legal frameworks and policy design choices affect educational opportunity. With Dalié Jiménez, he is also co-founder and co-director of the Student Loan Law Initiative, an interdisciplinary project that examines the effects of student debt. His work contributes to policy reforms that promote access and equity in higher education.

He is Professor of Law at Berkeley and a Faculty Director of the Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice. His research has been published in the Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, and Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review, among other journals. At Berkeley, he regularly teaches Education Law and Policy, Criminal Law, and Law in Media.

Research Expertise and Interest

education law, social justice, racial justice