David Jacobson
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Phone: 480-965-2640
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Professor ASU West Hall 131 Phoenix, AZ 85069
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Professor, School of Global Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Bio
David Jacobson's research and teaching is in politics from a global and legal perspective, with a particular focus on international and regional institutions, international law and human rights issues. He also works extensively in the area of immigration and citizenship, focusing primarily on Western Europe and the United States. He was educated at the Hebrew University (B.A), the London School of Economics (M.Sc.), and Princeton University (Ph.D). He is an academy member of the Cycladic Academy for Europe in Athens and Tinos , Greece , and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, and the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations.
Currently Jacobson is looking at a number of issues regarding “global judicialization,” which concerns the growing role of law and judicial bodies across borders, including international courts. He is fascinated the extent to which this phenomenon impacts the idea and practice of democracy; how what he terms “judicialism” implicitly informs cross-Atlantic tensions; shapes blueprints for global governance; is changed by, or shapes, the war against terrorist organizations; and how differences vis-à-vis judicialization are explicitly revealed in debates over the International Criminal Court. He indicates that we have tended to reference the “state” in opaque terms in the literature on international relations, largely forgetting about the intra-institutional divisions, and how this has great implications for global issues. (In the immigration literature, heed is often not paid to institutional/state dynamics; for example, extensive reference is made to “transnational communities” without examining the institutional foundations for such an idea.) He has written or co-authored recent articles on these topics in Human Rights Quarterly (2003), Society (2003), and the Journal of Human Rights (2004), among other places. He is also working on a book on these topics.
Other issues Jacobson is currently following up on include the democratization of “transitional societies”; and the role of gender in social and political change, and in multiculturalism and religious conflict. His books include Rights Across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) and Place and Belonging in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), and he is editor of Identities, Borders and Orders: New Perspectives in International Relations (University of Minnesota Press, 2001, with Mathias Albert and Yosef Lapid); The Immigration Reader: America in Multidisciplinary Perspective (Blackwell, 1998); and Old Nations, New World: Conceptions of the World Order (Westview Press, 1994), as well as other publications. He has given numerous lectures around the world.
He was born in the City of Diamonds, in Kimberley, South Africa, and remain loyal to the Griquas to this day. He lives in Tempe, Arizona with his wife, Sharon and their three wonderful children. A kelpie dog, a cat of uncertain background and two desert Sonoran tortoises have also joined their household. As befits someone in the School of Global Studies he travels widely, especially for his work. His favorite places? Santorini; Barcelona; Jerusalem (where he lived for many years); Riga and the coastal areas in Latvia; Hong Kong; Cape Town; Bellagio, Italy; and Vancouver, Canada. More locally, he is an avid lover of the American West, especially the four corners region where Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico meet. "Go see it some day—it will take your breath away."
- . . The Globalization Companion (2006).
- Jacobson, David (Author) ,Ruffer, Galya (Author) . Social Relations on a Global Scale: The Implications for Human Rights and for Democracy. Dialogues in Migration Policy (2006).
- DelSordi, Nicholas, Jacobson, David. Borders. Encyclopedia of Globalization (2005).
- Jacobson, David (Author) . Social Relations on a Global Scale: The Implications for Human Rights and Democracy. Dialogues in Migration Policy (2005).
- David Jacobson. Cosmopolitain Promises: The Rising Struggle over Democracy. Journal of Human Rights (2004).
- David Jacobson. Cosmopolitain Promises: The Rising Struggle over Democracy. Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 3, no. 2, 2004, pp.215-224 (2004).
- Jacobson, David (Author) ,Ruffer, Galya (Author) . Agency on a Global Scale: Rules, Rights, and the European Union. People Out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights and the Citizenship Gap (2004).
- David Jacobson. Europe's Post-Democracy. Society (2003).
- David Jacobson. Europe's Post-Democracy?. Society (2003).
- David Jacobson, Galya Ruffer. Courts Across Borders: The Implications of Judicial Agency for Human Rights and Democracy. Human Rights Quarterly (2003).
- David Jacobson, Zeynep Kilic. European Citizenship and the Republican Tradition. The Good Society (2003).
- David Jacobson, Zeynep Kilic. European Citizenship and the Republican Tradition. The Good Society (2003).
- Jacobson, David (Author) . Social Relations on a Global Scale: The Implications for Human Rights and Democracy. Cultural Factors in the Decision Making of the European Union (2003).
- Jacobson, David. Place and Belonging in America. (2002).
- Jacobson, David, Albert, Mathias, Lapid, Yosef. Identities, Borders and Orders: New Perspectives in International Relations. (2001).
- . . Identities, Borders, Orders: New Perspectives in International Relations (2001).
- Woodward,Mark Rhey*, Woodward,Mark Rhey*, Corman,Steven Robert, Davulcu,Hasan, Jacobson,David, Taylor,Thomas J. Finding Allies for the War of Words: Mapping the Diffusion and Influence of Counter-Radical Muslim Discourse. DOD-NAVY-ONR(4/1/2009 - 5/31/2014).
- Cady,Linell E*, Carlson,John, Durfee,Alesha D, Gallab,Abdullahi A, Henn,Alexander Ernst, Jacobson,David, Peskin,Victor, Saenz,Delia S, Schober,Juliane S. Teaching and Talking About Religion - Phase II. FORD FDN(8/15/2008 - 8/14/2011).
- Jacobson,David*, Abbott,Kenneth Wayne, Guhathakurta,Subhrajit. Human Impacts of Different Global Climate Change Scenarios. Centra Tech., Inc(8/5/2006 - 7/31/2007).
- Jacobson,David*. Assessing the Scale of Human Trafficking. Internat'l. Rescue Comm(6/1/2006 - 7/31/2007).
- Henderson,Mark Richard*, Jacobson,David, Sinha,Rajiv Krishna. Global Resolve: Social Entrepreneurship through Innovation and New Product Development. NCIIA(12/1/2005 - 7/1/2007).
- Cady,Linell E*, Damrel,David William, Elman,Miriam Fendius, Gereboff,Joel David, Jacobson,David, Thomas,George, Umar,Muhammad Sani, Warner,Carolyn, Warner,Carolyn, Woodward,Mark Rhey. Religious Conflict Analytic Papers. MISC FEDERAL(9/15/2004 - 9/14/2006).
- Jacobson, David. Corporate Ethical Responsibility in the Contemporary Business Environment. Liberty Fund Colloquium, Washington D.C (Feb 2006).
- Jacobson, David. The Human Face of Global Mobility. Center for Comparative and Global Research, UCLA (Jun 2004).
- Jacobson, David. The Human Face of Global Mobility: Discussant. Center for Comparative and Global Research, UCLA (Jun 2004).
- Jacobson, David. Globalized Justice: The Implications for Human Rights and Democracy. Department of Sociology, Haar Lecture in International Sociology, Princeton University (Apr 2004).
- Jacobson, David. Globalized Justice: The Implications for Human Rights and Democracy. Haar Lecture in International Sociology, Princeton University (Apr 2004).
- Jacobson, David. Patterns of 'Procedural Avoidance' and the Implications for Security and Human Rights. Workshop on War Sovereignty and Security Today, The Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité, Université du Québec à Montréal; The Centre d'études et de recherches internationales, Institut d'études politiques, Paris; The Open U (Mar 2004).
- Jacobson, David. Patterns of 'Procedural Avoidance' and the Implications for Security and Human Rights," Workshop on War Sovereignty and Security Today. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité, Université du Québec à Montréal (Mar 2004).
- Jacobson, David. When Sovereignty Meets Hegemony and Intervention: Patterns of 'Procedural Avoidance' in Multilateral Relations. International Studies Association annual conference, Montreal (Mar 2004).
- Jacobson, David. Post-Nationalism, Post-9/11. Workshop on Globalization and Illegal Migration, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia (Jan 2004).
- Jacobson, David. Res Publica or Res Judex? The Uncertain Promise of Global Justice. Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy (May 2003).
- Jacobson, David. Cosmopolitan Promises: The Contesting Visions of Transnational Human Rights and Democracy. Colloquium Series, Center of International Relations and the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Jan 2003).
- Jacobson, David. The New Legalism in International Relations. Conference on 'World Civility? The Transnational Diffusion of Norms since the End of the Cold War, Centre d'Études et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris (Oct 2002).
- Jacobson, David. Legal Intervention and Political Reconstruction. Conference on Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain (Jun 2002).
- Jacobson, David. Globalization, Human Rights and Changing Patterns of Political Engagement. Workshop on Globalization and Citizenship, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California at San Diego (Nov 2001).
- Jacobson, David. Immigration, Human Rights and the European Union: The Role of the Judiciary. University of Neuchatel (Jun 2001).
- Jacobson, David. The Mediating Mechanisms of Social Relations that are Global in Scale. Institute of Sociology, Ludwig Maximillians University, Munich, Germany (Jun 2001).
- Jacobson, David. A Retrospective on Rights Across Borders. Swiss Migration Institute, Neuchatel, Switzerland (Jun 2001).
- Jacobson, David. The Globalist Argument. Conference on Explaining Changes in Migration Policy: An International Debate, University of Geneva, Switzerland (Oct 2000).
- Jacobson, David. Locating the Legal Forms of Social Relations Global in Scale. Colloquium 2000 of the Academie Cycadique Pour L'Europe, Santorini, Greece (Sep 2000).
- Jacobson, David. On the Meaning of Citizenship in the Modern State. Conference on Dual Citizenship and Identity in the Global Context, The Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University (May 2000).
- Jacobson, David. The Microsociological Foundations of International Relations. Institut d' Etudes Politiques, Paris (Apr 2000).