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Daniel Jacobs

Senior Professorial Lecturer
Department of Management

  • Additional Positions at AU

    Director, M.S. in Sustainability Management Program
  • Professor Jacobs teaches courses in sustainability and global corporate citizenship. He joined Kogod following a distinguished career in the federal government. As an award-winning Trial Attorney at the Justice Department, he was lead counsel in high-profile environmental and civil rights cases. As a Senior Negotiator and Office Director in the State Department's Economic, Energy, and Business Bureau, he led major initiatives to promote and protect American business interests abroad. While serving in the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser, he won an award for his work in international arbitration. He has taught at George Washington University, Middlebury College, and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He began his professional career as a law clerk to a U.S. Court of Appeals judge.

  • Degrees

    B.A., Middlebury College; M.Phil., Cambridge University; J.D., Duke University School of Law.

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  • KSB - Management
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  • CONTACT INFO

  • (202) 885-6375 (Office)
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Teaching

  • Spring 2012

    • MGMT-596 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Sustainability Legal/Reg Syst
    • Description

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Professional Presentations

Lecture, "Sustainability Programs: The Business School Response to a Hot Issue" Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2011)

Lecture, "The BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf: Have We Learned or Only Failed?" Academy of Legal Studies in Business (2011)

Lecture, "Arbitration under the U.S. Model Bilateral Investment Treaty" British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, England (2009)

Panelist, Ethics/Rule of Law Program Lecture, "Public Integrity Prosecutions in the Post-Watergate Generation" Kenya School of Law, Nairobi, Kenya (2006)

Lecture, "Hot Environmental Topics in the U.S." Presented to Government, business, and academic audiences in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey (2005)

Lecture, "Cobell v. Norton, the Indian Land Trust case" Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs MPA program (2003)

Media Appearances

  • July 2011 - Interview with Art Levine of Straight Talk on the consequences of the BP Oil Disaster. Watch video

Selected Publications

"The Role of the Federal Government in Defending Public Interest Litigation" 44 Santa Clara Law Review 1 (2003) (lead)

Government Experience

US Department of State, Washington, DC

Senior Negotiator; Office Director; Bureau of Economics, Energy, and Business

Attorney-Adviser; Office of the Legal Adviser

US Department of Justice, Washington, DC

Trial Attorney; Environment and Natural Resources Division; Civil Rights Division

Selected Publications

Kogod Now, Fall 2011. "Rio+20: The Role of Business at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development."  View article

Professional Certifications

District of Columbia, Bar Membership

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