James F. Jacobson

Mr. Jacobson has represented large and small corporations, as well as individuals in various business and litigation matters. Mr. Jacobson is the author of Through the Looking Glass: Sustainable Development and Other Emerging Concepts of International Environmental Law in Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Case and the Trial Smelter Arbitration published in Transboundary Harm in International Law: Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration, Cambridge University Press (2006). Mr. Jacobson began his legal career clerking for the Honorable Darla S. Williamson, Fourth Judicial District, State of Idaho. Following clerkship, Mr. Jacobson joined the firm of Sasser & Inglis, P.C. as an associate, and later became a partner in the firm of Jacobson & Jacobson, PLLC. He currently practices law as the managing partner of Jacobson & Jacobson, PLLC. While in law school, Mr. Jacobson interned in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Idaho, where he co-authored briefing submitted to an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Jacobson was a student editor of an on-line international law publication entitled The German Law Journal, which is edited by Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Russell Miller.