John V. Jacobi

Professor John V. Jacobi specializes in Health Law

Dorothea Dix Professor of Health Law & Policy
SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL

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Biography
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Torts I
Public Health Law
Health Access & Payment
Disability Law
Biography
 

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 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 law firm of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, where he pursued health, prisoners’ rights, and disability issues.

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 examining the obligations of government to provide services to people with serious mental illness, the clash of disability rights and public health interests, and the prospects and social effects of “consumer-driven” health insurance models on health costs and rights of access for the poor and people with disabilities.  He serves 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 Associate Director of the Seton Hall Health Law & Policy Program, and the Seton Hall Institute of Law & Mental Health.

 
Publications
 

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Government Reinsurance Programs and Consumer-Driven Care Buffalo Law Rev. (forthcoming 2005)

Consumer-Driven Health Care and the Chronically Ill, Michigan J. Law Reform (forthcoming 2005)

Federal Power, Segregation and Mental Disability, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 1231 (2003)

Parity and Difference: The Value of Parity Legislation fosr 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)

Quality Control, Enterprise Liability, and Disintermediation in Managed Care, 29 J. L. Medicine & Ethics 305 (2001) (with N. Huberfeld)

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)

Prosecuting Police Misconduct, 2000 Wisc. L. Rev. 789 (2002)

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)