Jacob Huebert and Jeff Deist break down the libertarian perspective on Janus vs. AFSCME.
Jacob H. Huebert
Jacob Huebert is a Senior Attorney at the Goldwater Institute, litigating cases on free speech and property rights, among other issues. Jacob currently leads the Goldwater Institute’s First Amendment challenges to state laws that require attorneys to join and pay dues to a bar associations.
Before joining Goldwater, he served as Director of Litigation for the Liberty Justice Center in Chicago. There, he successfully litigated cases to protect economic liberty, free speech, and other constitutional rights, including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld government workers’ First Amendment right to choose for themselves whether to pay money to a union. Jacob and his work have appeared in numerous national media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Fox News Channel.
Jacob holds a B.A. in economics from Grove City College and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. After law school, Jacob served as a clerk to Judge Deborah Cook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Latest work
In this article, J.H. Huebert reviews Richard A. Posner’s Catastrophe: Risk and Response. Volume 20, Number 4 (2006)
Volume 13, No. 4 (Winter 2010) In Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On , UCLA law professor Stuart Banner examines how the United States moved from the ad...
