Leslie Gielow Jacobs
Professor of Law
Director, Capital Center for Government Law & Policy
B.A., Wesleyan University
J.D., University of Michigan
E-mail Professor JacobsTel: 916.739.7219
LESLIE GIELOW JACOBS has been a professor at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law for fifteen years. During this time, she has authored a substantial and important body of scholarship on constitutional doctrine, governance and national security. Professor Jacobs’ articles have appeared in law journals at Yale, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State, UC Davis, Rutgers, Tulane, Florida and Indiana. Her separate pieces of scholarship on bioterrorism and national security have appeared as invited submissions to Homeland Security: Law and Policy (William Nicholson, ed. 2005), Encyclopedia of Bioterrorism Defense (J. Wiley, 2005), the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, and the interdisciplinary journal, Biosecurity & Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice & Science. Most recently, she is co-author of Global Issues in Constitutional Law and the pending Global Issues in Freedom of Speech and Religion, both in casebook format and designed to supplement and modernize law school teaching through the introduction of international and comparative cases and materials.
Currently, Professor Jacobs serves as Director of the Pacific McGeorge Capital Center on Government Law & Policy, dedicated to studying issues of federalism and government structure and aiding government policymakers who must navigate their complexities. Before this appointment, Professor Jacobs served as Director of Pacific McGeorge’s Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure. Located within the Pacific McGeorge Center for Global Business and Development, the Institute generates scholarship on development issues and provides service to developing nations seeking to strengthen their legal systems. In February 2008, Professor Jacobs taught a course at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou, China, as part of a USAID legal education grant administered by the Institute. Professor Jacobs also led the Pacific McGeorge Bioterrorism and Public Health Initiative, which focused on introducing issues related to those topics into the law school curriculum. Professor Jacobs received her B.A. from Wesleyan University, graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, and served as a law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Courses: Constitutional Law | Remedies | Bioterrorism and Public Health Law
PUBLICATIONS:
Retooling Law Enforcement to Investigate and Prosecute Entrenched Corruption: Key Criminal Procedure Reforms for Indonesia and Other Nations, 30 Univ. of Pennsylvania Jove International Law -- (Fall 2008 forthcoming), with Benjamin B. Wagner.
Limits to the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission Model of Corruption Reform: Lessons from Indonesia, 20 Global Business & Development Law Journal 327 (2007), with Benjamin B. Wagner.
Judicial Independence in the United States Constitution, 47 The Bench 12 (Spring 2007).
Bioterrorism Defense : Current Components and Continuing Challenges, in William Nicholson (ed.), Homeland Security: Law and Policy (Charles C. Thomas, 2005)
United States Legislation and Presidential Directives , in Encyclopedia of Bioterrorism Defense (J. Wiley, 2005)
Sensitive But Unclassified: The Constitutionality of Secrecy Clauses as a Condition to Government-Funded Scientific Research, 1 J. Nat = l Sec. L. & Pol. 113 (2005)
Bioterrorism, Infectious Diseases, and Constitutional Rights (teaching materials) (2003)
Clarifying the Content-Based/Content-Neutral and Content/Viewpoint Distinctions, 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 595 (2003)
Governmental Controls and Information and Scientific Inquiry , 1 Biosecurity & Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice & Science 83 (2003) (with Rindskopf Parker)
Who = s Talking? Disentangling Government and Private Speech, 36 U. Mich. J.L. Ref. 35 (2002)
The Public Sensibilities Forum , 95 Nw. L. Rev. 1357 (2001)
The Link Between Student Activity Fees and Campaign Finance Regulations, 33 Ind. L. Rev. 435 (2000)
Is There an Obligation to Listen? , 32 U. Mich. J.L. Ref. 489 (1999)
Pledges, Parades, and Mandatory Payments, 52 Rutgers L. Rev. 123 (1999)
Applying Penalty Enhancements to Civil Disobedience: Clarifying the Free Speech Clause Model to Bring the Social Value of Political Protest into the Balance, 59 Ohio St. L.J. 185 (1998).
Supplementing the Assumed Definitions: A Commentary on Professor Brownstein's Analysis of Abortion Protest Restrictions, 29 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 639 (1996).
Nonviolent Abortion Clinic Protests: Reevaluating Some Current Assumptions About the Proper Scope of Government Regulations, 70 Tul. L. Rev. 1359 (1996).
Even More Honest Then Ever Before: Abandoning Pretense and Recreating Legitimacy in Constitutional Interpretation, 1995 Ill. L. Rev. 363 (1995).
Adding Complexity to Confusion and Seeing the Light: Feminist Legal Insights and the Jurisprudence of the Religion Clauses, 7 Yale J. Law & Feminism 137 (1995).
