Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Academic Employment

Northwestern University School of Law

Professor, 2008 –

Associate Professor, 2007 – 2008

Assistant Professor, 2004 – 2007

Kellogg School of Management:

Center for Business, Government, and Society

Affiliated Faculty Member, 2005 –

University of Virginia School of Law

Visiting Associate Professor, Spring 2008

Stanford University Department of Political Science

Lecturer, Summer 2003

Publications: Refereed Articles

The Role of Politics and Economics in Explaining Variation in Litigation Rates in the U.S. States, 38 Journal of Legal Studies __ (forthcoming 2009)

Competing Theories of Coalition Formation and Case Outcome Determination, 2 Journal of Legal Analysis __ (forthcoming 2009)

The Judicial Signaling Game: How Judges Strategically Shape Their Dockets, 16 Supreme Court Economic Review 1 (2008)

Legal Doctrine and Political Control (with Emerson H. Tiller) 23 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 326: 345 (2007) (download)

How Massachusetts Got Gay Marriage: The Intersection of Popular Opinion, Legislative Action and Judicial Power, 15 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 219: 241 (2006)

The Senatorial Courtesy Game: Explaining the Norm of Informal Vetoes in ‘Advice and Consent’ Nominations, 30 Legislative Studies Quarterly 193: 217 (2005)

Publications: Law Reviews

How the Dissent Becomes the Majority: Using Federalism to Transform Coalitions in the U.S. Supreme Court (with Vanessa A. Baird) 59 Duke Law Journal __ (forthcoming)

Taking the Measure of Ideology: Empirically Measuring Supreme Court Cases (with Matthew J. Sag) 98 The Georgetown Law Journal __ (forthcoming 2009)

Ideology and Exceptionalism in Intellectual Property – An Empirical Study (with Matthew J. Sag and Maxim Sytch) 97 California Law Review __ (forthcoming 2009) (ssrn download)

Super Medians (with Lee Epstein) 61 Stanford Law Review 37: 100 (2008)

Acknowledging Guilt: Forcing Self-Identification in Post-Conviction DNA Testing (with Gwendolyn Carroll) 102 Northwestern University Law Review 263: 306 (2008) (download pdf)

The Subtle Unraveling of Federalism: The Illogic of Using State Legislation As Evidence of an Evolving National Consensus, 84 North Carolina Law Review 1089: 1158 (2006)

Sharing the Love: The Political Power of Remedial Delay in Same-Sex Marriage Cases, 15 Law & Sexuality 11: 58 (2006)

Same-Sex Marriage: Implications of Legislative Remand for the Judiciary’s Role, 26 Vermont Law Review 381: 406 (2002). Republished in General Assembly of Maryland, Compilation on State Legislatures as an Institution, October 2002.

Cited in Vermont Civil Unions Legislation (15 V.S.A. @ 1201) (2006) & Vermont Marriages and Licenses Legislation (18 V.S.A. @ 5131) (2006)

Publications: Book Chapters

The Judiciary, Public Choice and Public Law (Richard Posner and Francesco Parisi, Eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming)

The New Separation of Powers: Integrating the Study of American Politics (with Rui de Figueiredo and Barry R. Weingast), Handbook of Political Economy (Barry R. Weingast and Donald Wittman, eds., New York: Oxford University Press), 199: 222 (2006)

Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, (Paul Finkelman, Ed.) (Routledge) (2006)

Publications: Symposia

Judicial Agenda Setting through Signaling and Strategic Litigant Responses (with Vanessa A. Baird), 29 Journal of Law and Policy __ (forthcoming 2009) – symposium edition on empirical legal studies

The Impact of Positive Political Theory on Old Questions of Constitutional Law and the Separation of Powers, 100 Northwestern University Law Review 259: 278 (2006) – centennial symposium edition

Current Projects

Prof. Jacobi is currently working on follow-up projects on judicial behavior in intellectual property cases, including a book project with co-author Matthew Sag. She has a working paper with Alvaro Bustos that continues to explore judicial  signaling – this time in the context of judicial nominations – and a work in progress on judicial abstention with Eugene Kontorovich. Prof. Jacobi is also continuing her work on judicial coalitions and the determinants of median power in the U.S. Supreme Court, including a book project with co-author Lee Epstein. 

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Education

Ph.D. – Stanford University, Political Science Department, 2004

M.A. – University of California, Berkeley, Political Science Department, 2000

LL.B.(Hons) – Australian National University; with 1st Class Honors, 1999

B.A.(Hons) – Australian National University; with 1st Class Honors1996

Courses Taught

Constitutional Law

Legislation

Introduction to American Politics and Government

Congress, Courts and Politics

Constitutional Law Colloquium

Positive Political Theory Colloquium

Prof. Jacobi will be offering a new course in the Fall of 2010 at Northwestern Law School: Contemporary Supreme Court Cases.