RICHARD B. JACOBSON
SELECTED SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Won decision declaring Wisconsin Defamation statute unconstitutional; won dismissal of charge of drug dealing in what was then the largest drug conspiracy in the Western District of Wisconsin.
PRINCIPAL AREAS OF PRACTICE:
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Litigation (Trials and Appeals), Family Law, Criminal Defense. Lecturing EDUCATION: J.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, cum laude, 1983 Ph.D., University of California, La Jolla (English and American Literature) M.A., Harvard University (Comparative Literature)
B.A., Brandeis University (Classics/Mediterranean Studies) cum laude. LAW-RELATED EMPLOYMENT:
2001–2006-- University of Wisconsin Law School, Lecturer (Adjunct: several semesters) in Professional Responsibilities
1984–present-- Private practice of law, Madison, Wisconsin Fall Semester 1992-- Lecturer (Adjunct), University of Wisconsin Law School
(Seminar in Law of Religion and State) (with Marc Galanter) 1983-84--Law Clerk to Hon. Robert D. Martin, Chief Bankruptcy Judge, Western District of Wisconsin
1984--Lecturer (Adjunct), University of Wisconsin Law School (Religion and State, Creditors' and Debtors' Rights)
1978-79--Visiting Scholar, Yale Law School.
HONORS:
Order of the Coif
Wisconsin Law Review, Member
Phi Beta Kappa, Member (Mu of Massachusetts).
BAR ADMISSIONS:
Wisconsin, 1983
United States District Court, W.D. Wis., 1983; E.D. Wis., 1984 United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1985 Supreme Court of the United States, 1986.
COMMITTEES:
Member, Board of Governors and Chair of Publications Committee, Law and Humanities Institute, 1979-1983
Chair, Nominating Committee, Semiotic Society of America, 1980-81 Member, Wisconsin State Bar Bicentennial of Bill of Rights Committee Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, 1990-91
Treasurer, Western District of Wisconsin Bar Association, 1993-95 Member, District 9 Committee, Office of Lawyer Regulation, Wisconsin, 2003-2008.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"The Structuralists and the Bible," Interpretation, 1974, reprinted in A Guide to Contemporary Hermeneutics, (Eerdmans 1986) 280-296
"Jeremiah's Logical Problems," Linguistica Biblica, No. 38, 1976, 149-161
"Law, Ritual, Absence," 9 Hartford Studies in Literature, December 1977, 164-174
"Absence, Authority and the Text," Glyph 3 (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Spring 1978, 137-147
"Fear and Loathing on Tenure Trail," Wisconsin Academy Review, September 1980, 130-135
"Satanic Semiotics and the Jurisprudence of Job," Semeia, Fall 1981, 61-68
"Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law: Fraudulent Transfers and Obligations," Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law (Norton 1984-85)
"Bankruptcy Law," monograph (160 pp.) in Construction Law
(Matthew Bender, 1986) (jointly with Hon. Robert D. Martin)
“The Structures of Forgiveness: Executive Clemency, Bankruptcy Discharge, Forgiveness of Sin” 4 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, 243-253
(1992)
"Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law: Bankruptcy Crimes,” Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law (Norton, 1993)
Future Projects:
--The Aborted Treason Trial of Jefferson Davis
--Bad Laws (And How We Deal With Them)
--The Problem of Closure
CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION LECTURES:
Divorce Intermediate Level; Dividing Assets in Divorce; Spoliation of Evidence; Terminating Parental Rights; Transnational Adoption; Bankruptcy Crimes; Impact of Bankruptcy on Dissolution of Marriage in Wisconsin; What Other Professions Can Teach Us About Legal Ethics; A Toolkit for Paralegals.
LANGUAGES: Fluent: English, Hebrew, Spanish, Ladino (Judeo-Espanyol); Reading Knowledge: French, Latin, Portuguese, Greek; Some Acquaintance: Modern Greek, Turkish, Italian, Arabic. Richard B. Jacobson
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