Jason Gluck

Jason Gluck is a Senior Rule of Law Advisor in USIP’s Rule of Law Center of Innovation and leads USIP’s rule of law projects in Iraq.  Gluck is also Director of USIP’s Constitution-Making, Peacebuilding, and National Reconciliation Program with a particular focus on federalism, minority rights, and constitutional design.

Gluck joined USIP as a rule of law adviser in January 2008. Previously, he was a legal officer and constitutional adviser with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, where he advised the Council of Representatives during the 2007 constitutional review. He was also a senior program officer with the National Democratic Institute in Iraq, where he worked with the Iraqi Parliament to develop parliamentary institutional and legislative capacity.

In 2006, Gluck was a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies where he analyzed U.S. and European policies to promote economic and political reform in the Middle East and North Africa, and examined the extent to which those policies have promoted democratization in Morocco. From 1999 to 2005, Gluck practiced law with the Washington, D.C. based firm Covington & Burling.

Gluck received his J.D. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in political science from Northwestern University.

Publications:

• "Iraq’s Unheralded Political Progress [2]," Foreign Policy, March 2008.
• From Gridlock to Compromise: How Three Laws Could Begin to Transform Iraqi Politics [3]
  USIPeace Briefing, March 2008
• Rules of Procedures Manual for the Iraqi Council of Representatives, co-author (National Democratic Institute, 2007).