Lyceum Scholar & Economics Major, Clemson University
Photographer, Clemson Athletics & Jacob Citron Media
Notes Editor, Clemson Law Review
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My name is Jacob Citron. I am a Lyceum Scholar and Economics Major at Clemson University, and I plan to pursue a career in law. I currently serve as a photographer for Clemson Athletics Communications and Jacob Citron Media. I have published one two papers, “Liberty: The Key to Living Well" and "Traffic Cameras and the Reclassification of Crimes to Civil Violations".
The Lyceum Program, recognized as one of the most prestigious academic programs in the nation, is dedicated to the study of the history of liberty, capitalism, the American Founding, and principles of a moral character, and it does so through a great books aproach. This same approach was taken by my high school, which is where I fell in love with the great books approach; a classical, liberal arts education is an education in things worth knowing, and without it, human life is somewhat incomplete, undeveloped, and unfulfilled.The below is my resume.2023 - Present
Clemson University, Clemson SC
Lyceum Scholar, Snow Institute for the Study of Capitalism; Notes Editor, Clemson Law Review; Member, Howell Pre-law Society; Photographer, Clemson Athletics Communications
The Snow Institute for the Study of Capitalism is America’s premier university-based teaching and research center dedicated to exploring the moral foundations of capitalism. The Snow Institute is also the home of the Lyceum Scholars Program, which is recognized as one of America’s most prestigious academic programs, with an acceptance rate of just over one percent in 2023. The Lyceum Program uses a great books approach, dedicated to the study of the history of liberty, capitalism, the American Founding, and principles of a moral character.
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Thesis: "A Defense of America" (In Progress)
2019 - 2023
Golden View Classical Academy, Golden CO
As I see it, a classical, liberal arts education is an education in things worth knowing, and, without it, human life is somewhat incomplete, undeveloped, and unfulfilled.
Thesis: "Liberty: The Key to Living Well"
1 CLEM. L. REV. 51, 51-59 (2025)
In this paper, I analyze the increasing efforts by the states to crack down on speed and red-light violations via the use of traffic cameras, how the states seem to have gotten around the Confrontation Clause by reclassifying crimes to “civil violations,” and the numerous issues with this approach.
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Senior Thesis, Golden View Classical Academy
In this thesis, I explore liberty as a requirement for living well. As Aristotle argued, happiness is the end at which all things aim, and the way to pursue happiness is to strive for virtue, which can only be achieved voluntarily, not through coercion. This brings us to the topic of tyranny and its unfortunate rise in America today. I will show how this complicates the pursuit of happiness and therefore the ability to live well. I will then present an alternative: a return to America’s founding principles—and will show why they work and how they are better. In order to live well, men must pursue happiness, and to do this, strive to be virtuous, and to do this, be in a state of liberty. In other words: in order to live well, man must be free.
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May 2025 - August 2025
As a legal intern at the Office of Regional Counsel, I engaged in legal research, motion drafting, discovery work, and trial preparation. My research mainly surrounded breaches of Constitutionally protected rights.
September 2025 - Present
Established in September 2025, the Clemson Law Review is an undergraduate student-edited journal that is dedicated to publishing high-quality legal scholarship by judges, professors, practitioners, and students. As the inaugural editor, I helped found the Clemson Law Review. In our first year, we oversaw over sixty staff writers. My primary role is to oversee and edit the “Notes” section of the Publication, where we include longer-form, high quality, undergraduate opinion pieces that discuss both specific and general areas of the law. I authored the Inaugural Note.
January 2024 - Present
Clemson Athletics Communications manages communications media for the Clemson Tigers. I currently serve as a photographer, responsible for photographic coverage of the various Clemson Tigers athletics programs and have captured roughly 400,000 images.
September 2023 - November 2023
The Tiger is the official newspaper of record at Clemson University. I contributed sports photographs in coverage of the Clemson Tigers and captured roughly 50,000 images.
March 2020 - May 2023
As Head of Media, I started and ran media coverage of the Golden View Sentinels in their various athletics programs. Over my years at Golden View, I videographed and created season highlight videos for the basketball team and photographed the majority of Golden View’s sports.
High School, Senior Year, First Semester
Golden View Classical Academy, Golden CO
Mr. Pfafflin nominates Jacob Citron:
"I nominate Jacob Citron as Student of the Quarter. Coming out of a Senior Thesis meeting with Jacob characterized by vibrant, passionate discussion about morality and government's role in enforcing it, I remarked to myself, "This man is on a relentless pursuit of Truth, and he will not rest until he finds it." As I introduced challenges to his thesis that were the equivalent of intellectual hand grenades, I watched his face becoming increasingly more contorted as it reflected the mental gymnastics occurring in his mind, grappling with ideas that called into question the very premise of his thesis.Jacob embraces the seriousness of deliberation.As exemplified not only in his thesis work, but in my experience with him throughout the semester in class, he is not one who is just going through the motions to check an academic box for completion. For ideas he cares about, he is personally taking on the burden of proving, through vigorous testing, the veracity of the very worldview defining who he is. As far as I can tell, defending his preconceived personal worldview is not his highest priority. Consuming diverse viewpoints that offer alternative ways of understanding reality, then synthesizing them into some sense of the world that may or may not resemble what he started with - is. In other words, he is open to changing his mind. If one bothers to look beyond his combative relational style when his views are challenged, one understands that he is daring someone to prove him wrong. If one succeeds, he will acknowledge that he was bested in the fight. To me, this is the quintessence of the quest students and faculty should be on together anywhere Truth is being pursued with honesty. This is personal integrity; the willingness to be wrong. The quest for Jacob is omnipresent, both inside the classroom walls and beyond the doors of the school. Well done, Jacob."2019 - 2023
Golden View Classical Academy, Golden CO
2023 - Present
Clemson University, Clemson SC
Semester 1 — Dean's List
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