Jacob Elberg

Seton Hall University School of Law

Jacob T. Elberg is an Associate Professor at Seton Hall Law School, where he is Director of Seton Hall’s Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law. Professor Elberg teaches courses in Health Care Fraud & Corruption, Health Law, Data Analytics, and Evidence. His areas of interest include corporate crime and compliance and the role of various actors in the enforcement of health care fraud laws and regulations. 

Professor Elberg’s work has been published in law reviews and medical journals including the law reviews of Wisconsin, Washington, Utah, and Richmond, the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA Internal Medicine, and he has covered False Claims Act cases for SCOTUSblog. 

Prior to joining Seton Hall, Professor Elberg served for 11 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey. As Chief of the Office’s Health Care & Government Fraud Unit for five years, Professor Elberg supervised a team of 15 AUSAs and directed all of the Office’s criminal and civil investigations and prosecutions of health care fraud offenses, including all health care-related actions brought by the Office under the False Claims Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. 

Professor Elberg received his B.A., cum laude and with honors, from Dartmouth College and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.