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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