John V. Jacobi
Faculty Director & Dorothea Dix Professor of Health Law & Policy
Professor John Jacobi's work is primarily in the areas of Health, Finance, Insurance, and Access; Mental Health Law; and Disability Law.
Professor Jacobi received B.A., summa cum laude, from the State University College of New York at Buffalo and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He teaches in the areas of Health Law, Health Finance, Disability Law, Public Health Law, Mental Health Law, and Torts. Professor Jacobi spent five years working for the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate as Special Assistant to the Commissioner, where he worked on health, civil rights, and disability issues through litigation and advocacy in legislatures and regulatory agencies. He then became a Gibbons Fellow at the Gibbons firm, where he pursued health, prisoners’ rights, and disability issues. During 2007-2008 he was on leave from the law school, serving as Senior Associate Counsel to N.J. Governor Jon S. Corzine on Health, Human Services, and Children's Issues. He serves on the Board of the Greater Newark Healthcare Coalition, and the North Jersey Community Research Initiative, an HIV service organization.
Professor Jacobi writes and speaks on issues including disability rights, health access and finance, public health, and mental health. His recent and current scholarly projects include the application of the health reform law to the poor and people with disabilities, state implementation of Medicaid and private health insurance reform, the improvement of chronic care in health systems, the funding and structure of services for children with disabilities, the obligations of government to provide services to people with serious mental illness, and the clash of disability rights and public health interests. He served on the Governor’s Task Force on Mental Health, the Board of Advisors of the New Jersey Office of Child Advocacy, the New Jersey Olmstead Advisory Council on disability rights, and on other government and non-profit boards and committees. He is Faculty Director of the Seton Hall Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy Program.
PUBLICATIONS
LAW REVIEW ARTICLES
High Utilizers of ED Services: Lessons for System Reform, 20 Annals of Health Law (forthcoming 2011)
Implementing Health Reform at the State Level: Access and Care for Vulnerable Populations, 39 J. Law, Medicine & Ethics 69 (2011) (with Watson and Restuccia)
Chronic Care and Prevention: Evolution in Practice and Finance, 12 Marquette Elder Advisors J. 33 (2010)
Professionalism and Protection: Disabled Lawyers and Ethical Practice, 69 U.Pittsburgh L. Rev. 567 (2008)
Reform with a Patient Focus, 37 Cumberland L. Rev. 437 (2007)
The Present and Future of Government-Funded Reinsurance, 51 St. Louis U. L. J. 369 (2007)
Government Reinsurance Programs and Consumer-Driven Care, 53 Buffalo Law Rev. 537 (2005)
Consumer-Driven Health Care and the Chronically Ill, 38 Michigan J. Law Reform 3 (2005)
Dangerous Times for Medicaid, 33 J. L., Medicine & Ethics 834 (2005)
Federal Power, Segregation and Mental Disability, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 1231 (2003)
Parity and Difference: The Value of Parity Legislation for the Seriously Mentally Ill, 29 Am. J. Law & Med. 185 (2003)
After Managed Care: Gray Boxes, Tiers, and Consumerism, 47 St. Louis U. Law Rev. 397 (2003)
Genetic Discrimination in a Time of False Hopes, 30 Fla. St. L. Rev. 363 (2003)
Competition Law’s Role in Health Care Quality, 11 Ann. Health L. 45 (2002)
Prosecuting Police Misconduct, 2000 Wisc. L. Rev. 789 (2002)
Book Review: Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, 31 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1089 (2001)
Medicaid Expansion and the Limits of Incremental Reform, 45 St. Louis U.L. Rev. 79 (2000)
Fakers, Nuts and Federalism: Common Law in the Shadow of the ADA, 33 U. C. Davis L. Rev. 95 (1999)
The New Jersey Sexually Violent Predator Act: Analysis and Recommendations for the Treatment of Sex Offenders in New Jersey, 24 Seton Hall Leg. J. 1 (1999) (with Cornwell and Witt)
Canaries in the Coal Mine: The Chronically Ill in Managed Care, 9 Health Matrix 79 (1999)
Mission and Markets in Health Care: Protecting Essential Community Providers, 75 Wash. U. L. Q. 1431 (1998)
The Ends of Health Insurance, 30 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 311 (1997)
Patients at a Loss: Protecting Health Care Consumers Through Data Driven Quality Assurance, 45 Kan. L. Rev. 705 (1997)
The Battered Woman as Reasonable Person: A Critique of the Appellate Division Decision in State v. McClain, 22 Seton Hall L. Rev. 365 (1992) (with Lawrence Lustberg)
Blood Testing for Prisoners: A Brief Reply, 20 Conn. L. Rev. 813 (1988) (with Catherine Hanssens)
CENTER PUBLICATIONS
Health Insurance Exchanges: Governance Issues for New Jersey, Seton Hall Law School Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy (2011)