Jimmy Biblarz

Jimmy Biblarz is a doctoral student pursuing a J.D./Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy at Harvard University. Generally, he is interested in stratification and inequality, crime and incarceration, and social networks. His research focuses on constitutional law, local government law, law and sociology, and the history of school desegregation. His dissertation traces the rise and fall of racial integration as the ideological focus of social policy, and the subsequent emergence of competing ideologies. The project seeks to identify how and when sociological ideas about inequality (e.g. reputation, prestige, social capital and networks) have entered legal thinking about what the 14th Amendment guarantees schoolchildren. He hopes that the project will serve as the basis for a renewed policy emphasis on school and neighborhood segregation, as well as a litigation strategy that advocates for a more comprehensive vision of what the Equal Protection Clause requires.

In law school, he completed internships with Munger, Tolles & Olson and the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office. He has also worked as a student attorney with Protect Democracy, the Prison Legal Assistance Project, and Civil Rights Corps.

Originally from Los Angeles, Jimmy graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, in Social Studies and English in 2014. Before graduate school, he worked as a research assistant for David Gergen at CNN. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Inequality and Wealth Concentration Ph.D. Scholarship, and the Harvard Fellowship in Law and Graduate Studies.

Jimmy has considerable tutoring and mentoring experience. Aside from serving as a resident tutor in Eliot House, for which he was awarded the Marquand Award for most outstanding tutor, as an undergraduate he served as a Peer Advising Fellow for three years, for which he was awarded the Dingman Award for most outstanding advisor. Jimmy has worked extensively as an academic and test preparation tutor, helping students in all academic subjects as well as the SAT, ACT, LSAT, GRE, and AP exams. Privately, he has advised many students on college and admissions preparation, helping them secure admission to Harvard, Princeton, USC, Berkeley, and Claremont McKenna, among others. He has worked in-person and online with American and international students.

We at SSP know that Jimmy, with his academic credentials, vast experience working with high school and university students, and compassion and good humor, will be a wonderful asset to our team.