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Jacques Semmelman
jsemmelman@curtis.com
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New York Office
Practice
A partner in the Litigation Department in New York, Mr. Semmelman joined the Firm as an associate in 1983. Mr. Semmelman holds an undergraduate degree in engineering from Columbia, a master’s degree in mathematics from Harvard, and a doctorate in applied mathematics from Harvard. While Mr. Semmelman has unique expertise in matters involving mathematical or quantitative issues, he has broad experience in all phases of commercial litigation and arbitration and white-collar criminal defense, as well as in government enforcement proceedings and internal corporate investigations. Between 1987 and 1990, Mr. Semmelman served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, Criminal Division. Mr. Semmelman’s recent matters have involved securities fraud, options backdating, market timing, insider trading, real estate valuation, business valuation, intellectual property, tax fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, insurance coverage disputes, and product liability. Recent matters that have proceeded to judgment following a trial or an arbitration hearing have included a trial in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware involving allegations of collusive bidding in connection with a US$300 million corporate acquisition, and an arbitration hearing revolving around the fair market rental value of a major commercial building in Manhattan.
Mr. Semmelman is also a recognized authority on the law of international extradition. He has lectured and published extensively in that area, and his law review articles have been cited by courts and by other commentators. He has been involved as counsel or co-counsel in several high-profile extradition cases.
Education
- J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1983
- Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, Division of Applied Sciences, 1980, Thesis: Mathematical Theory of Nonstationary Slip Flow for Homogeneous, Viscous, Incompressible Fluids
- A.M., Mathematics, Harvard University, 1977
- B.S., Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science, 1976
Publications
- “The Doctrine of Specialty in Criminal Cases,” Outside Counsel, New York Law Journal, January 3, 2008 Please click here to view the article - PDF, 234KB
- “Defending the International Extradition Case,” The Champion (National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers) (June 2006) (co-authored with Karen Snell) Please click here to view the article - PDF, 4MB
- “The Rule of Non-Contradiction in International Extradition Proceedings: A Proposed Approach to the Admission of Exculpatory Evidence,” 23 FORDHAM INT 'L L.J. 1295-1333 (2000) (in symposium issue, International Law Enforcement, Extradition, and Mutual Legal Assistance in the 21st Century) [Cited, e.g., in In re Extradition of Valles, 268 F. Supp. 2d 758, 772 (S.D. Tex. 2003); In re Extradition of Chavez, 408 F. Supp. 2d 908, 911 n.2 (N.D. Cal. 2005)]
- “The Doctrine of Specialty in the Federal Courts: Making Sense of United States v. Rauscher,” 34 VA. J. INT'L L. 71-143 (1993)
- “Due Process, International Law, and Jurisdiction Over Criminal Defendants Abducted Extraterritorially: The Ker-Frisbie Doctrine Reexamined,” 30 COLUM. J. TRANSNAT'L L. 513-76 (1992)
- "Federal Courts, the Constitution, and the Rule of Non-Inquiry in International Extradition Proceedings," 76 CORNELL L. REV. 1198-1241 (1991)
[Cited, e.g., in Austin v. Healey, 5 F.3d 598, 604 (2d Cir. 1993); Martin v. Warden, 993 F.2d 824, 828 (11th Cir. 1993); Lo Duca v. United States, 93 F.3d 1100, 1103 (2d Cir. 1996); United States v. Lui Kin-Hong, 110 F.3d 103, 111 n.11 (1st Cir. 1997); Parretti v. United States, 112 F.3d 1363, 1369 n.8, 1370 n.10 (9th Cir. 1997); Mironescu v. Costner, 480 F.3d 664, 669, 672 (4th Cir. 2007)]
- Frequent contributor to the “International Decisions” column of The American Journal of International Law. See 86 AM. J. INT'L L. 811-20 (1992); 87 AM. J. INT'L L. 133-37 (1993); 87 AM. J. INT'L L. 288-92 (1993); 90 AM. J. INT'L L. 102-05 (1996); 91 AM. J. INT'L L. 138-40 (1997); 95 AM. J. INT'L L. 435-38 (2001) [Cited, e.g., in Cornejo-Barreto v. Seifert, 379 F.3d 1075, 1087 (9th Cir. 2004)]
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