Becky L. Jacobs

Associate Professor of Law
B.S, 1983, Florida Institute of Technology, summa cum laude
J.D., 1987, University of Georgia, summa cum laude

Legal Process I, International Business Transactions, International Intellectual Property, ADR, Natural Resources, Environmental Law, Mediation Clinic, and Representing Enterprises

jacobs@libra.law.utk.edu
SSRN author Page:
http://ssrn.com/author=351195

Becky L. Jacobs brought more than a decade of national and international experience in the corporate world when she joined the College of Law faculty in 2002. Prof. Jacobs came to UT from Duke Energy International's Sao Paulo, Brazil office, where she worked as an Assistant General Counsel. Early in her career, she clerked for the Honorable Pasco M. Bowman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. She then practiced with the law firms of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher and Shook, Hardy & Bacon, spending time in the London offices of both firms, and she also worked as an in house lawyer for CNG Transmission and Conoco. Prof. Jacobs has extensive experience with international transactions and also has practiced in the areas of environmental, energy, and administrative/regulatory law. The top graduate in her law class at the University of Georgia, Prof. Jacobs was named to the Order of the Coif and was Symposium Editor of the Georgia Law Review.

Publications

       Articles:

The Post-Apartheid City in the New South Africa: A Constitutional Triomf?, 18 Pace Int. L.J. 407 (2006).

Brazil's Agricultural Trade War: Success and Failure on the Southern Route to Antarctica, 36 U. Miami Inter-Am. L. Rev. 167 (2005),

Policy and Praxis: A Role for LatCrit Institutional-Class Analysis in Latin American Judicial Reform, 16 Fla. J. Int. L. 601 (2004).

PMS HAHAcronym: Perpetuating Male Superiority, 14 Texas J. Women & L. 1 (2004).

Pesification and Economic Crisis in Argentina: The Moral Hazard Posed by a Political Supreme Court, 34 U. Miami Inter.-Am. L. Rev. 391 (2003).

Basic Brownfields, 12 U. Ky. J. Nat. Resources & Envtl. L. 265 (1996-1997).

Beckett & Jacobs, The Storm Water Regulatory Scheme: Washing an Industry Down the Drain?, 10 U. Ky. J. Nat. Resources & Envtl. L. 307 (1994-1995).

Professional Presentations

"The Importance of Environmental Law to Women's Health" (delivered in Portuguese), at Seminário Internacional de Direito e Saúde eV Seminário Nacional de Direito e Saúde Cesteh/ENSP/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2006.

"Mediation Ethics," CLE Seminar with Professor Carl Pierce, Tennessee Valley Mediation Association, Knoxville, Tenn., April 2005.

"Activism in Brazil: Uncivil Society?," International Angle Lecture Series, University of Tennessee International House, Knoxville, TN, March 2005.

"Urban Settlements, Constitutional Triomf?, Law, Politics and Open Spaces," at Centering Constitutional Law and Critial Theory, Rulci/LatCrit Colloquium on International and Comparative Law, Cape Town South Africa, August 2004.

"The New Religion of NAFTA/CAFTA/FTAA: Deifying Commerce, Defying Constitutions," at Reconstituting Constitutions and Cultures: Neoliberalism, Social Justice and the Rule of Law, Second Annual South-North Exchange on Law, Theory and Culture, Universidad Inter-Americana de Puerto Rico, Facultad de Derecho, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2004.

"Dominion, Democracy, and Self-Determination: How the MST is Transforming Brazil's Landscape," University of Tennessee's Young Scholar Representative, Southeast Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference, Kiawah Island, SC, August 2003.

"Inside Out: New Rules in Brazil," Inaugural South-North Exchange on Law, Theory and Culture, Universidad Inter-Americana de Puerto Rico, Facultad de Derecho, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2003.

"Mediation Skill Training," with University of Tennessee Training and Development Staff, Knoxville, Tenn., December 2004, 2005.

Pro Bono and Public Interest Work

Board of Directors, Knox County Community Mediation Center

Past Tennessee Valley Mediation Association Board Member and Coordinator for its Simulation Saturdays

Organizing Committee for UT's "Energy & Responsibility: A Conference on Ethics and the Environment", to be held in Knoxville in 2008 http://isse.utk.edu/energy_and_responsibility/index.html

International Senior Lawyers Project, South African Black Lawyer's Association Commercial Law Training Program, 2006

International Senior Lawyers Project, investigation of the 2004 offshore oil auction process in the Joint Development Zone of Nigeria and São Tomé and Principe

Conducted research with the Geomatics Faculty of the University of Cape Town , Cape Town , South Africa , Summer 2004

Faculty Advisor to UT ILSA Chapter and the UT ADR Project

Coach, UT  Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Team

Coach, UT ABA Representation in Mediation Competition Team

Selected Achievements and Affiliations

Provost's Junior Faculty Fellow, 2007

2006-2007 and 2004-2005, Forrest W. Lacey Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Moot Court Program

2006/2007 Summer Adjunct, Georgia State University Summer Legal and Policy Study in Rio de Janeiro. Courses: Cross-Cultural Communication in International Dispute Resolution, Creative Conflict Prevention and Community Improvement , Public Health Law & Policy: Global and Comparative Perspectives, and Comparative Environmental Law: Urban Issues

April 24, 2007